The significance of the books title “A Sound of Thunder” in the novel is that thunder occurs during a storm or bad weather but the thunder is not the …show more content…
In understanding the meaning we can understand how the novel A Sound of Thunder is a dystopian text. A sound of Thunder is set in the near future just like many popular dystopian novels it also involves advances in technology and science example of this is having the ability to time travel. Many dystopian texts start with or involve disasters of some sort that catapults the society into dystopian this relates to A Sound of Thunder because the novel involves a disaster that changes society and that was Eckles killing of the butterfly and altering time which undoubtedly changed