Sound Of Thunder 'And Being Prey'

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Do you think that you could fight of a dangerous reptile? Yeah same here. But in the stories “Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey”. The character had to fight them off. Plumwood (The main character of “Being Prey”) fights a dangerous crocodile. Then Eckels (Main character of “Sound of Thunder”) had to go up against a dinosaur. If you want to know what happened then keep reading. The setting of the text are dangerous and deadly. The character didn’t listen to what the instructors had to say about the land. But they didn’t listen. They didn’t understand the consequences that would come out not taking the instructors advice. In the “Sounder of Thunder,” Eckels really underestimated dinosaur hunting. In “Being Prey,” Val plumwood didn’t care about

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