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"A Sound of Thunder" By Ray Bradbury Literary Examples and…

- - - - Significance:
        
        -man vs nature
        
        -When Eckels realizes he is in no position to take down the dinosaur, he immediately wants out
        
        -He gets so overwhelmed by the dinosaur he loses his sense of reality and in turn accidentally killing the butterfly, which affected the entire world in a very negative way
- - - - -foreshadows that someone in the group will eventually do something they’re not supposed to which will affect all of Earth
        -makes the reader understand how heavily they are playing with Time and that it probably isn’t a good idea if one little error can cause so much destruction
- - - - -after Eckels steps on the butterfly, his present life is completely altered
      - -before his hunting trip, it was known to the audience that Keith was the better choice since Deutscher was “anti-everything”
      - -after the trip goes wrong and Eckels comes back, he learns that since all of the world has changed, so has people’s choices, and society now thinks Deutsher is better even though the audience knows he’s not
      - -shows how large he costs were of Eckel’s actons
- - - - -explains the sound of the Time Machine that Eckel’s and the hunting group is in
      - -warn the audience that the machine is not something good; that it probably will be harmful or have harmful consequences
      - -”roaring” has a very negative connotation; strong/powerful
- - - - -“sound of thunder” symbolizes both t-rex’s steps and the sound of Travis’s guns
      - -both resembled death and mortality (dinosaur dies, eckels dies)
      - -in both cases, the sound is created by a powerful machine/ creature that cannot be controlled no matter how far technology has advanced; shows how death and mortality are inescapable
- - - - -Eckels describing height of creature
      - -helps reader imagine just how huge dinosaur is
      - -signals Eckels beginning to realize just how unprepared to face the dinosaur