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A Sound of Thunder
By Ray Bradbury
I. PRE-READING QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions in complete sentences
1. Can one small decision or action (say leaving your house a second or two late) change the course of a person’s life? Explain. Yes because if you make a decision to leave the house a little late the is a very small chance something terrible can happen like a car crashes into your house where you are standing(the door )which if you left a little earlier it would turn out different for you
2. If time travel were possible, would you travel through time? Where would you go? Would you change anything? How would that effect the present?Yes the week before 8th …show more content…
When they are in the primeval times if anything goes wrong the people will remit half of the money they paid. When it is asked if they survived this trip that is example of a paradox where you travel back in time to see yourself. When traveling in the past they moved carefully since the future was not an expendable thing. When the trip goes wrong the group revoked and were teeming back to the time machine. Finally when they are back in the future the fact that the future was changed came undulated and Eckels felt subliminal after …show more content…
Analyzing Stylistic Writing
Examine Bradbury’s description of the time machine on page 36. How does his use of descriptive and figurative language enhance the mystique of this machinery over a literal description? Identify some of the phrases that stand out to you.
He describes the time machine as a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, silver, and then blue.
On page 37, first column, what details does Bradbury include to let the reader know that Eckels is very scared? How is this strategy more effective than Bradbury directly telling us “Eckels felt very scared?”
Eckels is described to be pale and have a stiff jaw which is better then saying he is scared since it provides imagery and lets us imagine how he felt
Bradbury engages in literary misdirection by setting us up to expect Eckels’ encounter with the dinosaur to be the climax of the story. When we get to that portion of the story, how do you know that this is not the climax? What is the actual climax? What is the effect of this misdirection on the reader?
The climax of the story is when eckels falls on the ground because before they traveled to the past it was explained that the slightest things can change the future and when Eckels falls onto the ground the future is
A Sound of Thunder
By Ray Bradbury
I. PRE-READING QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions in complete sentences
1. Can one small decision or action (say leaving your house a second or two late) change the course of a person’s life? Explain. Yes because if you make a decision to leave the house a little late the is a very small chance something terrible can happen like a car crashes into your house where you are standing(the door )which if you left a little earlier it would turn out different for you
2. If time travel were possible, would you travel through time? Where would you go? Would you change anything? How would that effect the present?Yes the week before 8th …show more content…
When they are in the primeval times if anything goes wrong the people will remit half of the money they paid. When it is asked if they survived this trip that is example of a paradox where you travel back in time to see yourself. When traveling in the past they moved carefully since the future was not an expendable thing. When the trip goes wrong the group revoked and were teeming back to the time machine. Finally when they are back in the future the fact that the future was changed came undulated and Eckels felt subliminal after …show more content…
Analyzing Stylistic Writing
Examine Bradbury’s description of the time machine on page 36. How does his use of descriptive and figurative language enhance the mystique of this machinery over a literal description? Identify some of the phrases that stand out to you.
He describes the time machine as a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, silver, and then blue.
On page 37, first column, what details does Bradbury include to let the reader know that Eckels is very scared? How is this strategy more effective than Bradbury directly telling us “Eckels felt very scared?”
Eckels is described to be pale and have a stiff jaw which is better then saying he is scared since it provides imagery and lets us imagine how he felt
Bradbury engages in literary misdirection by setting us up to expect Eckels’ encounter with the dinosaur to be the climax of the story. When we get to that portion of the story, how do you know that this is not the climax? What is the actual climax? What is the effect of this misdirection on the reader?
The climax of the story is when eckels falls on the ground because before they traveled to the past it was explained that the slightest things can change the future and when Eckels falls onto the ground the future is