A Sound Of Thunder Research Paper

Millions of years ago, dinosaurs roamed freely around the world. If time travel was more than a theory, would the butterfly effect really happen if something was changed in the Jurassic era? In the short story titled A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, time travel is more than a theory, it is an actual machine that can transport people to any time in the past. The machine is owned and operated by Time Safari, Inc. Furthermore, they have tour guides, Lesperance and Travis, and they take hunters, Eckels and two others, sixty million years into the past, and allow them an opportunity to hunt the biggest game the world has ever known. However, the hunters must follow strict rules while in the past in order to avoid starting the butterfly effect, possibly …show more content…
He did find his way back to the time machine, and on the way home, he was yelled at by Travis mercilessly. Shortly after getting back from the journey, Eckels said in a panic, “Killing one butterfly couldn’t be that important! Could it”(Bradbury 146)? Ironically, he noticed that the sign on the wall was no longer spelled the same, and that his mistake did, at the very least, change small details in the present time. Ray Bradbury used this example in the story to further show the butterfly effect, and the importance of everything in nature. Even something as small as a butterfly living or dying could have a huge impact on the future. As the people living in the present, there is a precedent to protect the things of the world that can not protect themselves, in order to give the world a fighting chance to have a better and brighter future. The story that Brabury tells is about time travel; however, it is also about something valuable to all people at all times. The story teaches about how important nature is, and that humankind is ultimately responsible for the maintenance of the natural beauty on