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A Sound Of Thunder Literary Analysis

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Are you aware that everything and anything that you do can change your whole future. In the short story “ A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, Eckels was excited to go hunting a dinosaur. His instructors warn him about changing the future, but he panics and mistakenly changes his future. An important theme in Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” is that small actions can change your future in unexpected ways. This theme is proven by Eckels running of the path and stepping on a butterfly, Travis’s explanation of the butterfly effect, and the changes in the future. A small action of stepping on a butterfly led to Eckels changing the future. “ Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very
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