“Eckels, not looking back, walked blindly to the edge of the Path, his gun limp in his arms, stepped off the Path, and walked, not knowing it, in the jungle.” (paragraph 88).
Despite the countless warnings from his guides, Eckels carelessly steps off the path and into the jungle while trying to run away from the T-Rex. This creates the risk that Eckels’s actions may have made a large impact of the future.