Summary Of A Sound Of Thunder And Nethergrave

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,

Many science fiction shows, films, and novels today have been influenced by science fiction novels from the past. A few examples are Frequency,The Butterfly Effect, and A Sound of Thunder relating to A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. These films all express Bradbury’s idea of the butterfly effect and that time traveling can change the past, therefore changing the future. Although they share the same idea, they each have different outcomes.

The short stories both written by Ray Bradbury “A Sound of Thunder” and “The Veldt” share many similarities as well as differences. “A Sound of Thunder” is about a man that assumes the name Mr. Eckels who goes on an expedition sixty-five million years into the past to hunt dinosaurs. When they are hunting they cross paths with A Tyrannosaurus rex. Eckels and the others kill the reptile and Eckels becomes traumatized. He then proceeds by stepping on a path a crushes a butterfly under his boot accidentally. He doesn’t find out until he gets back to the future to see a new timeline. “The Veldt” is about a family who lives in a fifties-esque common concoction of a future home. The HappyLife Home is a type of smart home. The home has a room

Gloria Skurzynski’s sci-fi short story “Nethergrave” and “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury share many similarities and differences, present in each story. Both of its main characters, with the help of very advanced technology trade in their lives for an alternate worlds, despite the fact that one world offers a new life while the other jeopardizes a life.

The authors in the narratives, “The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury and “Nethergrave” by Gloria are each about technology altering the life of the main characters. Although both narratives include many different subjects as the story progresses, both explore the idea of emotions affect the way technology is used. Due to their theme, conflict, and setting, the story “The Sound of Thunder” is a better novel than the narrative “Nethergrave”.

I'm Choosing to compare and contrast “Nethergrave” and “The Sound of Thunder.” Each Of these two fictional short stories, take place in a world much different from ours, with impossible settings and circumstances. Each story is narrated by a male protagonist, which are forced to make hard dissensions in a complex universe. These science fiction stories are packed with interesting details and kept my eyes glued to the words as I raced through the pages.

The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic science fiction short story about a hunter named Eckles, he visits the Time Safari, a company that sends you to the past. A group of three join Eckles to travel back in time to shoot and kill a prehistoric dinosaur. Gloria Skurzynsk's Nethergrave is about a young boy named Jeremy, who plays sports, and has a group of internet friends. Later, Jeremy has the choice whether to stay in the real world, or leave it for the virtual introduced by a great being. This critical response will be comparing, and contrasting both stories by making points such as, how the stories fit into the science fiction genre, the characterization between Eckles and Jeremy, the theme/message of the stories, dialogue,

In the stories “Nethergrave” and “The Sound of Thunder”, there are lessons and examples of real-world problems. However, I think that the problems that are in “Nethergrave” can be most associated with kids of today. While “The Sound of Thunder” addresses a similar topic children and teens can relate more to “Nethergrave”. Children, but mostly teens, can relate to Jeremy because he does not fit in much, doesn't like hanging out with people, and likes to be alone and play one the computer. These kids should realize that the online-world is not always going to be nice and happy, something may go wrong they will end up getting hurt.

The best science fiction stories, are those stories that captivate the readers attention from beginning to end; that manage to exploit all the elements of literature and that are “based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.” “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about a man named Eckels that pays ten thousand dollars for the opportunity to travel back in time to the era of the dinosaurs. Prior to going on the Safari hunt, that guarantees nothing but the “severest thrill” of killing a T-Rex, he is given clear-cut instructions as to what he can and cannot do. To Eckels disgrace, he fails to follow instructions, which results in losing his own life and changing the course of history forever. In the other hand, “Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski is about a young boy named Jeremy who is always bullied by his peers, not good at sports, and feels abandoned by his parents. Nonetheless, Jeremy is given the opportunity to escape his harsh world through an online chartroom, and later by entering a different dimension—Nethergrave. Jeremy is given the opportunity to choose to be strong and powerful and living forever in Nethergrave with the promise of never feeling lonely or abandoned again. Though both stories are captivating and interesting, in my opinion, based on the use of technology, the development of characters, and the main message of the stories,

‘A Sound of Thunder’ is better than ‘Nethergrave’ because the use of technology, role of science and the main message. Its role of technology is unique and the role of science is unusual. Its main message was to ‘be careful’ because every little or big thing ‘has an effect on someone, somewhere’. This message is true and can be incorporated in life as well as technology. This is why I know that ‘A Sound of Thunder’ was an overall better choice of sci-fi fiction than ‘Nethergrave’.

Having spent one’s entire childhood through war and bombings can inspire many ideas, both positive and negative. From the fear of a nuclear bomb to the proud feeling of witnessing the first American man on the moon, Ray Bradbury took his experiences during World War II and the International Space Race and transformed them into literary pieces, such as “There Will Come Soft Rains”, “The Sound of Thunder”, and “The Pedestrian”. In these short stories, Bradbury includes elements of his own life into the plot, creating a message of caution to the readers through his riveting genre of dystopia. Some topics he stresses include time, technology, and its possible threats to human interaction. Through Bradbury’s unique style, he encapsulates the major issue of the rapid development in society and how it affects people in a social aspect. As new technology and science is innovated, there are many people who debate whether or not it can have harmful side effects to mankind. Among these three short stories, Bradbury uses the stylistic techniques of diction, imagery, and figurative language to convey that as society progresses through time, people lose their sense of humanity.

Bradbury’s The Sound of Thunder and Skurzynski’s Nethergrave are both good science fiction stories. How ever the themes are completely different. Both stories have their pros and cons like everything else. I believe the focus of these stories are how technology can affect us in such a dramatic way and can change the world we live in. Both stories are similar, but different in many ways.

Ray Bradbury was known for using his literature to voice his social criticisms and opinions on society’s worst flaws, in classic stories such as Fahrenheit 451 and A Sound of Thunder. The message he sends in these stories have to do with the dangers of technology and how society can lose control of it, utilizing oodles of figurative language (metaphors, similes, personification, etc.) to add to the story and writing his pieces in such a way that they may be compared to his society at the time. One of the best examples of this underlying message is the short story, A Sound Of Thunder. In A Sound Of Thunder, we see a hunter by the name of Eckels pay $10,000 to go back in time on a dinosaur hunting trip, however, the trip goes wrong, as Eckels steps off the anti-gravity path and drastically changes the present, leading to his untimely death.

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