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Mood Of A Sound Of Thunder

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In the short story, A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, it creates an intense tone for the reader. An example of this intense tone is “terrible scream”. This shows us that when The Monster lets out this sound, it’s so loud and vile, to where we can almost hear it in our heads. We can sense that Bradbury wants us to picture what this scream sounded like, to almost feel like we, the readers, were actually there experiencing it. And he wants us to have a better idea of what's happening in the story. The connotation for the word terrible is extremely bad, awful, dreadful, and horrible, which describes how they must have heard this sound, and how it made them feel. And we see how this roar affected them, because Eckels “stepped off” of the path blindly, he heard the scream, and he was so unsettled by it that he didn’t even want to look at the monster, and when the story reveals that Eckels has stepped off the path, Bradbury wants the readers to almost feel a kind of suspenseful intensity, because now that we know Eckels stepped off the path the reader will continue to feel an intense feeling towards the story, until we find out what really happened when Eckels made that mistake. …show more content…

The sentence goes on to read “blood spurted from its throat”, the connotation of the word spurted is “to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid”, this is used to cause an effect on the reader, that makes the reader realize that the monster has just been killed, and Bradbury wants the reader to envision the actuality of the monster dying. Using an envision while reading a story, makes reading the story more interesting, when you can have a different perspective of the

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