A Sound of Thunder How Does Ray Bradbury Involve the Reader?

We have been reading a story by Ray Bradbury from the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun called A Sound of Thunder, it is a futuristic story about the consequences of time travel and how changing a small thing can result in a huge change somewhere down the timeline, the best way of describing this change is to imagine a single mouse, you kill the mouse then you stop the families of that mouse from being produced and so the families of those families, maybe millions of mice and for want of a mouse a fox dies stopping the fox’s families from being produced and maybe just maybe for want of a fox a human dies stopping the humans evolving and changing the future over hundreds and thousands of years as demonstrated in the story. Ray Bradbury involves the reader by using various techniques and hints, he links the American history with the present in the story, he uses the title as the biggest hint of all by leaving you to imagine what it could be, it could be a row within a relationship, a sudden event, a major event or an actual storm. The fact that you are left to deduce this for yourself means that the story becomes more interesting because you are drawn into the illusion of what you can find by yourself when in fact you are given the hints and being pushed in the right direction to find these things almost like telling you where something is but not actually showing you, it makes you feel good about yourself because you feel like you found it all by yourself. Another example of this is when Eckels and the group are in the time machine and Travis tells Eckels to ‘“Go out there. The Monster’s next to the Path. Stick your arms up to your elbows in his mouth. Then you can come back with us.”’ Form this you are left to imagine what Eckels does but it doesn’t actually tell you so you feel happy that you can fill in the blanks. Bradbury focuses mainly on Eckels showing things from his point of view ‘my dinosaur’ and ‘trying to scare me’ it also makes you think of