A Sound Of Thunder Analysis

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The theme for A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, is that there is importance of the actions you make and that everything has a purpose. Like the butterfly that Mr. Eckels stepped on. Also the dinosaur that they were shooting. When Mr. Eckels stepped on the butterfly it changed the future. Bradbury wrote this story to keep us wondering what will happen next and to be careful about what we do because everything has a purpose. In this short story they experience the past, present, and future. “Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.”(Bradbury 12) Mr. Eckels had stepped on a butterfly and it changed the future. In the beginning of the story there was a sign

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