A Sound Of Thunder Analysis

“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about a man named Eckel who goes to Time Safari Inc. in hopes to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Time Safari Inc. is guided dinosaur hunts that use a time machine to go back to when dinosaurs lived. This short story shows the effects of altering history. Changing one tiny little detail in the past can create or destroy something in the present. Every action that is taken in the past can affect things in the future. This story shows how Eckel’s mind changes when he is face with a T-Rex in front of him. Bradbury conveys this theme through imagery, diction, and metaphors. Bradbury’s imagery in “A Sound of Thunder” is very detailed so that the reader can picture what Eckel is seeing. “Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue (Bradbury 1).” This is the beginning of the story when Eckel first sees the time machine. Badbury describes it in a way that everyone would know
“It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest (Bradbury 6).” Here he is comparing the dinosaur to an evil god. This shows that the hunters are not use to seeing anything like the dinosaur. Eckel looks at the dinosaur differently than the rest of the hunters, he sees it as beautiful and no longer wants to shoot it. The title of the story is “A Sound of Thunder”, this is a metaphor comparing the dinosaur’s foot steps to thunder. This shows just how massive the dinosaur is. As the dinosaur is walking, the whole ground shakes like it would if thunder had struck. These metaphors are used to compare the past and present that the hunters have been in. Any change in the past can affect the future, therefore, Bradbury is showing the detail of the