Summary Of The Novel 'A Sound Of Thunder'

Have you ever wondered why you need a plan? If you don’t have a plan, I can assure you that you will not succeed. Planning is preparing a sequence of action steps to achieve some specific goal. A plan is needed for survival, good decision making, and success. Imagine you are trapped in a deserted island. In order for you to survive you would need a good plan. In The Most Dangerous Game, the main theme is survival. "It's a game, you see," pursued the general blandly. "I suggest to one of them that we go hunting. I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours' start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him "--the general smiled--" he loses."(9). It is saying that general Zaroff gives them everything they need to survive. They have to try to outsmart him for 3 days and if you can do that, you win. If general Zaroff finds them, then they lose. A plan is needed for good decision making. In A Sound of Thunder, Eckels, the main character, does not make good decisions throughout the story. “If he says no shooting, no …show more content…
In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford has a trap for general Zaroff to kill him, but in order for him to do that he would need a good plan. “ Even as he touched it, the general sensed his danger and leaped back with the agility of an ape. But he was not quite quick enough; the dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one, crashed down and struck the general a glancing blow on the shoulder as it fell.”(13). Rainsford succeeded because he had a good plan that guided him. He had everything planned, when general Zaroff would step on the tree vine, the tree would fall on general Zaroff and kill him. The plan didn’t go exactly as he planned, but he injured general Zaroff. If he didn’t have a plan, he wouldn’t have