The Importance Of Big Decisions In A Sound Of Thunder

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People often believe that life can take a turn for the worst when one has big decisions to make, but is that only true for big decisions? Ray Bradbury overlooks this question in the short story A Sound of Thunder. We are first placed in future when people have mastered Time Travel. The story leads off to where a man named Eckel’s wants to go back into time to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. He is told that when he signs a waiver to go back into the past that they can not promise he will return. The safari officials stress to not step off the path or Eckel’s will change the future if harm is done to the past. Eckel’s not believing that going back into time may stress Ray Bradbury’s theme that, which is, one’s small decisions may have drastic consequences