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Analysis Of Ray Bradbury's A Sound Of Thunder

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Ray Bradbury was a well-known science fiction and fantasy writer. One of his famous science-fiction works is “A Sound of Thunder”. This was adapted as a movie in 2005 (“Ray Bradbury”). What will people do when they have a chance to travel back in time? Would hunting be an option? “A Sound of Thunder” tells a story about a man named Eckels, who was willing to pay a company a certain amount of money to travel back to the past and hunt a particular animal, in that period of time. This short story explains the thrilling adventure that Eckels encountered in capturing the deadly beast, in this case, a Tyrannosaurus and the aftermath of his actions. In this short science-fiction story, Bradbury captures the relationship between the past, present and future and highlights the future tragedy that society creates for neglecting several cautions mentioned in the present. …show more content…

This approach is most evident in his science-fiction stories.” (qtd in. Paradowski, Robert & Dziemianowicz 2). Additionally, the “aftermath” explained in the story is symbolized as “The Butterfly Effect,” an environmentalism metaphor. According to “A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation,” The Butterfly Effect is a metaphor to illustrate how a slight change in the beginning can influence two complex schemes in very distinct ways. “The Butterfly Effect” in Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” is cautioning readers that all the elements in nature are connected, even smallest decisions can affect the whole system and the importance of one’s awareness and actions to protect one’s own habitat to minimize further

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Throughout the short story A Sound of Thunder the author, Ray Bradbury, shows Travis’ demeaning tone towards Eckels through diction and detail. Travis’ diction and word choice throughout the short story show his degrading tone towards Eckels. After the dinosaur was shot and killed by the group, they are back at the Time Machine when Travis says, “‘Stay out of this!’ Travis shook his hand away. ‘This fool nearly killed us.

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In the short story, “A sound of Thunder”, Ray Bradbury used figurative language to make a bigger impact on the story. When Eckels goes into the office he sees and hears, “... A sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars- all the hours piled high and set aflame.” The author, Ray Bradbury, wanted his audience to have a specific image set in the audience’s head. By using a simile he help the reader imagine how Eckle’s is going to get to the past.

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The theme of Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" is enhanced by his use of foreshadowing throughout the story. The story follows a man named Eckles on his journey to the past on a hunt for a real dinosaur. As the events in the past unfold, Eckles ultimately alters the future forever by taking a small step off the Path. The path is there to make sure the time travelers do not affect the future. Unfortunately, Eckles learns the true consequences of his actions when he returns to a changed future.

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He comes to understand that the destruction of the old world was largely caused by humans mindlessly using destructive technology, and that the ruins of the old world still hold dangerous secrets that could harm the living. According to the text, "Very great they were, and wonderful and broken—broken in the time of the Great Burning when the fire fell out of the sky" (Benet 39). This event caused widespread destruction and is attributed to the use of harmful technology. Similarly, in "A Sound of Thunder," the time travelers are warned not to make any changes to the past, as even the smallest changes could have devastating consequences on the future. Eckels killing of the butterfly is shown to have impacting effects.

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People can be good at many things, and sometimes they are the best at those things. I believe that Ray Bradbury, focused on multiple craft moves in The Veldt such as dialogue, personification, and flashbacks to show that he can be one of the best, when it comes to adding craft moves into his writing. He made the writing more interesting and described and showed the moments in different ways. He also used many different craft moves throughout the story, but I think that these three, dialogue, personification, and flashbacks are the most important, and I believe that without these craft moves the story wouldn’t have as big of an impact on the reader as it did with them. Ray Bradbury used dialogue to show how the characters are feeling at that exact moment, and is shown throughout the story to show interactions between characters in that moment in time.

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Although both Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, and Ray Bradbury, author of A Sound of Thunder, use foreshadowing, A Sound of Thunder creates more suspense for readers. Both are excellent, but Bradbury uses outstanding diction to emphasize the importance of certain events in the plot. While the pair of stories are equally well written, A Sound of Thunder uses it's foreshadowing to allure readers into continuing the short story.   In A Sound of Thunder, there are many instances of suspenseful foreshadowing.

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“I don’t try to describe the future, I try to prevent it.” (Bradbury) Bradbury’s depictions of the future, written in the 1950’s, explain his motives for writing in a science fiction style with a heavier emphasis on fiction than science. Ray Bradbury influences people in a way that cannot be mimicked. He used fictional stories to deliver an important message that can be applied throughout time. The message is how our actions affect our future today.

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The storyline tries to make us to think about what is going in the story. The characters need to come up with how they are going to take down the dinosaur. Time traveling can affect many of the characters in certain ways. For example, In Sound of Thunder Eckels accidentally falls off the path which affects the timeline. Eckels learned that there were consequences to what he did.

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Although when they return to the future and it has changed, they learn that Eckles had killed a butterfly. By killing something so small, and seemingly pointless, the whole future was different and the consequences were irreversible. The path in the setting was meant to prevent any changes in the future from occurring, but by stepping off it, it created the overall theme of the story. The Setting of “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury impacts the story tremendously.

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