Comparing Stories 'A Sound Of Thunder And Being Prey'

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Both stories “a sound of thunder” and being prey” display similarities and differences. In sound of thunder Eckels is going on a safari and he isn’t ready for it, he is asking a lot of questions like he is really confused he doesn’t understand anything the safari leader tells him to do. In being prey Mrs. Pulmwood is on her first canoe trip during a storm and she sees a crocodile and doesn’t mind it because it is really small and it attacks her but she survived but now it makes her look at life differently. Have you ever gone on an adventure?
The story called “A sound of thunder” Eckels is taken to the time machine and he was scared by a T-Rex and it caused him to step on a butterfly and resulting the change of the future. Since he killed

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