Metaphors In A Sound Of Thunder

The first setting is in 2055 in the United States, at Time Safari, INC., a time travel hunting agency. The entire place is clinical to prevent contamination in the past. Two of the characters discuss a recent political election where a well-liked candidate (Keith) won over what they assumed would be a dictator (Deutscher). A Sound of Thunder was written less than a decade after World War II ended. This means that U.S. was in a time of large development. Women had recently joined the workforce, civil rights became a bigger issue, and many Americans still had strong hatred for Germany and Germans in general. A prominent example of this is the fact that the less liked presidential candidate in the story was named Deutscher, a play off of the word “deutsche” which is the German word for the German language. The receptionist at the Time Safari, INC. also mentions that many people felt returning to 1942 would be a better alternative than having Deutscher as a president – which is an appaling statement in today’s culture. How bad could he

As soon as Eckels exits the time machine, the descriptions are vivd enough that the audience can believe they are in the “jungle [that] was the entire world forever and forever”. The Tyrannosaurus Rex is described as “a great evil god” with “delicate watchmaker's claws”, a mouth with “a fence of teeth like daggers”, and “ostrich eggs” for eyes (Bradbury). We are transported to this previously unconceivable jungle with descriptors that make the setting easy to imagine. This technique is essential to making the reader take the moral of the story to heart. If we can become so immersed in a story, we begin to apply our own experiences and the story can influence us and our futures. Imagining a world where a seemingly tiny misstep can change the world into a place worse than the atrocities of Hitler’s Germany, would cause many people to rethink future technological