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Comparing A Sound Of Thunder And Being Prey
Compare and Contrast Essay The Stories “A Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey” both have a similar and different conflicts. They both involve very dangerous activities that could put their lives in danger. They both go into highly dangerous locations, but are in different time periods. Eckels is back where Dinosaurs were and Val Plumwood was in Australia. So both of these stories have different conflicts.
Both stories they are both told not to do something. But as both did the same thing, they did not listen to them. This resolves in painful ending in both of these stories which are really bad. Eckels messed up time when he went to the past and Val Plumwood was attacked by a crocodile which was bad.
The setting in these stories are both

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