Descriptive Essay : ' Thunder '

Did you know a good author will always try to entertain the audience to make sure they keep reading. They use precise words that make you stick to the story and want to get deeper into the plot. In “A Sound of Thunder” the author Bradbury uses descriptive language, and sensory details to evoke the mood.

Think about a piece of gum. Let’s say that you’re done chewing it, so you spit it out on the ground. It’s nothing. Then think about a billion people that do the same thing. Overtime, all those wads of gum suddenly get tossed out and end up in the ocean, and kill about every marine animal you can think of. All of a sudden, you think, and you realize that the one tossed away piece of gum is a big deal, and that it had a large impact on the world. In the short story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, Eckels, a hunter, wants to go hunting, except in the past. He goes to Time Safari, Inc., a time travel company, and requests to hunt a dinosaur. He then goes to the past, accompanied by four hunters and confronts the dinosaur. After Eckels chickens out and a long struggle, the dinosaur is defeated. After they return to the present world, Eckels finds out he has killed a butterfly. He asks the official what happened and he then realizes that he has altered the course of history forever. The theme of “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is that if you’re not careful, small decisions can have very unpredictable outcomes. This can be proven by when Eckels went off of the Path, when Travis explains the rules of the Hunt, and when they reach present time and realize the drastic changes.

“We’re here to give you the severest thrill a real hunter ever asked for. Travelling you back sixty million years to bag the biggest game in all of Time”(Bradbury 224). The thought of travelling back in time just to shoot a prehistoric beast of the Past is just that; a thought. People now can’t even imagine what it would be like to look a ferocious dinosaur in the eyes, but it may happen one day in the Future. Ray Bradbury paints this picture for us in his incredible story about this unbelievable mystery with figurative language and personification. “A Sound of Thunder” follows a big game hunter, Mr. Eckels, through a Time Safari of the Future and how he completely changes the world around him by disregarding the dangers of Time Travel,

“‘All you got to worry about is-’ ‘Shooting my dinosaur,’ Eckels finished it for him” but this was no ordinary dinosaur (Bradbury 223-224). Not just a peaceful Europasaurus, but a great big Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mr. Eckels has to face his fear of hunting the greatest game of all time in the short story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. This short story takes place around a company known as Time Safari, Inc. which takes the characters time traveling to hunt any game in the past. Eckels panics and alters the future drastically by breaking the golden rule of the safari. This short story is mimicked in a movie titled A Sound of Thunder where it takes the same general idea and plot, but with a few different twists. In “A Sound of Thunder,” there are many similarities and differences between the short story and the movie.

Whatever you do will have an effect in the world. In the story, The Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury, Eckels, the main character, experienced this message in a very violent way. Although Eckels was brave, curious and courageous beyond measure, he is far from admirable because his selfish and impulsive behaviors made him unaware of his surroundings in ways that drastically harm others and the world around him. Eckels is not a good character in this story because of his bad acts. Ray Bradbury is basically expressing a good idea in a more elaborated version of it. He is saying that all actions have consequences. Eckels showed that by not thinking before acting and not trusting his power or instincts.

The last rays of the sun gleamed off golden domes and then shot up into the sky to spark the first shimmering of stars. Then the darkness came. Swift it fell, as though a lamp were snuffed out, and the air stilled, and an eerie silence grew. This was no rowdy city; not tonight. It was a city under siege, and word of the dark sorcery of the previous night ran from district to district, house to house, person to person. Fear ruled the shadows tonight. The house doors were shut. The inns were empty. All the city’s windows were barred.

Millions of years ago, hunting was a way of life, a way of survival. When cavemen killed an animal, they used every single piece of the animal and made certain to let none go to waste. In present day, hunting is viewed as a game. Many people hunt for the enjoyment that the adrenaline rush gives them. In this day and age, people can no longer hunt Saber-Tooth tigers, wooly mammoths, or dinosaurs, but what if there was a way to make that possible? A Sound of Thunder is a futuristic story of hunting prehistoric creatures. They could use a time machine to go back in time and hunt any animal they could dream of. The animals are carefully chosen before the hunt. If someone leaves minute traces of himself, the whole universe changes its course. A

“Well, from here,” the lòhren said, “you must journey due south. It’s some fifty leagues or more to another river, this time the Carist Nien. When you reach its banks turn east and follow it to the land of the Angle that I described. That is the place where the river splits in two. You’ll not miss it. The waterfall there, and other things, are remarkable. That is a journey nearly as far as the first leg. In all it’s some three hundred miles. A long way to travel on foot, but there’s no way to take a horse out of the city. If you would shorten the journey, you must find a mount on the way, if you can. But the lands all about are controlled by the enemy, though no doubt most are with this army that besieges us. You’ll not find help along the way, but I can’t rule it out altogether, for there are other strongholds that resist the enemy. But they are along the coast – too far east for you to go. Still, the lands are wild and much may happen between here and the

And then the elùgroths began to chant themselves. What words they uttered, Gilhain did not know. Yet their force reached out into the very air, stretched to the wall, sunk deep into the earth and soared into the heavens. The sun seemed darker. The air more chill. Elugs, drums, chanting and sorcery all worked to one dark purpose. That much he knew, but what it was he could not

The Dark Empire had been planning their up rise, for cycles. From the under word scouts came and filtered throughout the land, towns and small villages, portraying themselves as peddlers and merchants to the people. Doing whatever, they could to stir up the people, creating unrest among them, do this in such a way so that it had gone unnoticed for a long time.

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Thunder and Early Scientific Theory It lends its name to one of the most common weather phenomenon on Earth -- the thunderstorm -- and its associated elements: the thunderhead, thunder cloud, thunder bolt, thundershower and thunder clap. Early humans believed thunder came from the deities -- the voice and expression of their god(s). The roster of thunder gods includes: Thor of the Scandinavians, Donar of the Germans, Zeus of the Greeks, Jupiter of the Romans, Taranis of the Celts, Perkunis of the Slavs, Indra of the Indians and Shango of the Nigerian Yoruba.

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