1. A Sound of Thunder
By Ray Bradbury

2. Imagine You Have a Time Machine...
What event would you go back in time to witness? Why would you choose this particular event?
What person would you go back to meet? Why?
How could time travel be used for good or evil?

3. What is the name of the company that takes people back in time
What is the name of the company that takes people back in time? What do they charge for time travel?
The name of the company that takes people back in time is “Time Safari, Inc” as indicated on the sign at the start of the story. The cost to travel back in time is ten thousand dollars. The reader knows this since Eckels “waved a check for ten thousand dollars to the man behind the desk.” The cost can also be much greater as there are hefty penalties
for breaking the rules. For instance, it cost ten
thousand extra if you shoot something accidentally.

4. The Butterfly Effect
It describes how tiny variations can affect large and complex systems. For example, It considers the idea that if a butterfly flaps its wings in Asia, there could be a tornado in Texas as a result!
Basically, this theory says that it is impossible to predict anything because of all the tiny factors that have major effects. Bradbury explores the idea of the Butterfly Effect using time travel.

6. Name some of the preventative measures they take in order to not disrupt future events.
Warning/scaring the participants of the dangers involved in order to avoid bringing people who may panic at the first shot and disturb future events. Using oxygen helmets and intercoms to communicate in order to not introduce new bacteria to the past. Marking the dinosaurs in red paint who will be dying anyway, so as not to kill an animal that was supposed to live and procreate. Creating a pathway that floats above the earth does not disturb the environment. Stressing the importance of one mistake and the ripple effect that could occur. Removing the bullets (foreign objects) from the dinosaur to not to leave anything that would disrupt future events.

7. Describe Eckles. Is he likeable? Why or why not?
Eckels, a wealthy hunter, is characterized as an ignorant, fearful, and clumsy man. His ignorance becomes clear to the reader as Travis attempts to explain the importance of leaving the land and animals untouched. Eckels cannot see past his own desire to hunt dinosaurs, and simply says, “So what?”. This shows that he does not understand the magnitude of his actions. Although Eckels originally seems eager to hunt a tyrannosaurus, the author soon begins to show his fear by initially describing him as pale and flushed. Furthermore, when the dinosaur appears, Eckels goes into full panic saying “[w]e were fools to come. This is impossible” and begs to get out. In the end, his lack of care and clumsiness sets off a chain of events that alters the future in a negative way. It is for these reasons that Eckels is not a likable character.

8. Examples of Metaphor / Simile / Personification?
The Tyrant Lizard
Time was a film run backward… a great evil God
Each lower leg was a piston
Pebbled skin
Watchmakers claws
A fence of teeth
Simile
There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time
Like golden salamanders
Everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes
Glittered like a thousand green coins
Crush them like berries
Like a stone idol, T-Rex fell
Personification
Suns fled
The machine’s scream
Time steps aside
His body screamed silence in return

9. Those Who Fail to Learn From History…. Repeat it?
This story was first published in 1952, exactly sixty-five years ago, and yet there are several parallels to today’s society. With your group, discuss and be ready to share out what things in this story are similar to modern times.
What could Bradbury have been trying to warn us about… 65 years ago??

10. Those Who Fail to Learn From History…. Repeat it?
This story was first published in 1952, exactly sixty-five years ago, and yet there are several parallels to today’s society. With your group, discuss and be ready to share out what things in this story are similar to modern times.
What could Bradbury have been trying to warn us about… 65 years ago??