Gulliver's Travels

In the books “The 5th Wave” and “All Our Yesterdays” the main characters Marina Marchetti and Cassiopeia Sullivan led ordinary lives then one day they are forced into strenuous situations where they have to risk their lives to save the ones they love. Cassie Sullivan is 16 years old living with her parents and younger brother Sam when aliens, also known as the “Others”, come and cause mass destruction on earth causing her to lose her mother and father and have Sam sent to a military base to…

A Sound of Thunder and Being Prey share many similarities between the texts. They also share many differences. The comparisons between the stories is found among the conflict, setting and a main character of the stories. In each story, the main characters were faced by dangerous animals. Have you ever been attacked by a swarm of crocodiles? Have you ever gone back in time, back to when dinosaurs were alive? The setting of the stories A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury and Being Prey, by Val…

which affected her decisions and destroyed her identity. In contrast, in Eric Bress and J. Mackye Grubber’s The Butterfly Effect (2004), Evan witnessed and participated in traumatizing events in his childhood. When he discovers his ability to time travel, Evan alters his past only to find out it damaged his future. Despite bearing substantial differences, both explore how a minor action in the past will result in unforeseen and wide-ranging repercussions in the future. However, whereas…

to the 1800s, Dana is faced with new realities. She faces the many everyday challenges of her enslaved ancestors and more. At the start of the novel, Dana meets a young boy named Rufus ,; who will play a major role in the novel. After she times travels back the second time, she needs Rufu’s help to get her to safety. Rufus takes her to a free woman’s house, named Alice. Alice is one of Dana’s ancestors as well. At her arrival. Dana witnesses a black man being horribly beaten by his…

While there are many similarities between “Sound of Thunder” (SOT) and “Being Prey”, there are also many differences.Some similarities between those stories are they both take place in the outdoors where they are unfamiliar with the location. Also, both stories have predators and deal with danger, in SOT the predator is a dinosaur and in BP the predator in the crocodile. Also, the two stories deal with danger, in both stories the narrators are very detailed about the setting and the story in…

By The Waters of Babylon The waters of Babylon is a story of a destroyed futuristic world, narrated by a young man who was set on a journey to become a Man. He then began to uncover the knowledge behind the past of their civilization. The main character in the story is John, who is a round character. The secondary character in the story is John’s Father who is a priest. John showed different emotions during the story, from confusion to courage. He was also seen as ignorant because he was…

Eckels is an experienced hunter visiting Time Safari Incorporation in the year 2055 in the story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. He and his safari group go back 60,002,055 years to the prehistoric times to hunt dinosaurs. Travis, the Time Safari leader, warns them not to step off the anti-gravity metal path made for them to walk on, for if they do, it will dramatically affect anything that were to happen in the future. The hunters are only allowed to shoot the dinosaurs that have red paint…

The novel, Fahrenheit 451, takes place in a dystopian future. In this world there are divers of futuristic technologies. There are walls made up of entirely of television that would communicate with the viewers, high speed flying cars, and even an apparatus that would butter your toast for you. Even though their world has a multifarious amount of many great devices that benefit their society; they are lacking one important aspect. That aspect is books. In this world books are considered…

Lack of Female Agency in Time Travel Texts In many seminal time travel texts, genders fulfill certain archetypes that arise from societal gender roles. In the movies Back to the Future and The Time Traveler’s Wife and the novel Kindred, females have less agency, power, and independence than male characters, showing how time travel texts are inherently sexist. In the movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly accidentally travels to the past, only to have his teenaged mom romantically pursue him,…

The Psych of H.G. Wells H.G. Wells, was, in the simplest of terms, an individual with an incredibly complex psyche. He was bitterly upfront with his worldviews, and had an innate sense of the world around him that was different on a number of levels when compared to the ideals of others. His life consisted of a relatively specialized education, which brought about the knowledge from which he would later base many of his fantastic claims. As the world changed around him, so did Wells. He evolved…