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Compare And Contrast The Giver And A Sound Of Thunder

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Dragons, witches, princesses, and knights. These are the imaginary friends in so many children's lives. For young adults, those fairy tale characters give way to darker characters and more realistic situations. However, what do they all have in common? They live in stories. Two stories that are interesting are The Giver by Lois Lowry and "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury. Jonas in The Giver gets picked for a special task that requires pain beyond what they all have experienced. Eckels gets to hunt down a T. Rex and ends up facing a task he cannot handle and must deal with the consequences. While some obvious similarities do exist, both authors approach these stories, specifically with the characters, tone and point of view in similar and different ways. The main character of both stories are similar because they both were terrified of a great thing. In The Giver, Jonas learns what war is and is …show more content…

In The Giver, the author wrote some of the story being optimistic. The author ended the story with a mysterious ending. Jonas had gone far with a little kid named Gabriel and had arrived at a place at the bottom of a snow hill. At this place Jonas "heard people singing... but perhaps it was only an echo" (Lowry). The author left the reader with hope and to decide how it ended for us. It shows no clear ending, but the reader can be hopeful and imagine a nice ending. Having concluded that, in "A Sound of Thunder" the tone is straightforward. The characters had just killed the dinosaur and were headed to the present. The characters "let themselves be led among the metal Path. They sank wearily into the Machine cushions" (Bradbury). The author has no opinion in this story. The story was made with no preferences. The writer does not any intention of leaning towards one side of an opinion. All in all, while these stories have similarities in tone, they also have

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The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic science fiction short story about a hunter named Eckles, he visits the Time Safari, a company that sends you to the past. Eckles travels back in time with a group of three to shoot and kill a prehistoric dinosaur. Nethergrave is about a young boy named Jeremy, who plays sports, and has a group of internet friends. Later, Jeremy is faced with a decision whether to stay in the real world, or leave it for the virtual introduced by a great being. This critical response will be comparing, and contrasting both stories by making points such as, how the stories fit into the science fiction genre, the characterization between Eckles and Jeremy, the theme/message of the stories, dialogue, and writing style.

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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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