Critical Essay
Critical Essay Science fiction is a really weird genre. It has some odd stories. These are some more oddballs.
“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about hunters that time travel to kill various types of animals, dinosaurs being one of them. One of the travelers, Eckels, stepped off the path that no one could leave and it changed history. The leader killed him with a gun, hence the name sound of thunder.
“Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski is about a boy named Jeremy who is not liked at his school. He has an online chat room that is themed for death. When he gets there late the people leave and a mystical force sucks him in the computer forever.
Based on the use of technology, the development of characters, and the main message of the stories “Sound of Thunder” is a better work of science fiction.
When it comes to technology, “Sound of Thunder” uses it more effectively than “Nethergrave”.In Sound of Thunder, the type of technology used is time travel. They use it to kill historic beasts. For example, the story states, “ Time safari we take you there you shoot it. ” (Bradbury). As this example shows, people can time travel to kill extinct beasts. People would be interested in this because time travel has not been proven possible.
However, Nethergrave, uses technology as a portal to another world. For instance, the story states, “On Jeremy’s twenty-one inch monitor with it’s sixteen million colors a whirling vortex appears.” (Skurzynski). The way that Nethergrave uses technology is less effective because a portal out of a computer screen just doesn’t make sense.
Overall, these examples illustrate that Sound of thunder uses technology better.
When it comes to character development, Nethergrave helps us to get to know the main character better. In Nethergrave, the author helps us to know the main character by showing a little backstory before everything happens. For example, the story states, “It didn’t matter that he’d delibrately forgot to bring his
“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about hunters that time travel to kill various types of animals, dinosaurs being one of them. One of the travelers, Eckels, stepped off the path that no one could leave and it changed history. The leader killed him with a gun, hence the name sound of thunder.
“Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski is about a boy named Jeremy who is not liked at his school. He has an online chat room that is themed for death. When he gets there late the people leave and a mystical force sucks him in the computer forever.
Based on the use of technology, the development of characters, and the main message of the stories “Sound of Thunder” is a better work of science fiction.
When it comes to technology, “Sound of Thunder” uses it more effectively than “Nethergrave”.In Sound of Thunder, the type of technology used is time travel. They use it to kill historic beasts. For example, the story states, “ Time safari we take you there you shoot it. ” (Bradbury). As this example shows, people can time travel to kill extinct beasts. People would be interested in this because time travel has not been proven possible.
However, Nethergrave, uses technology as a portal to another world. For instance, the story states, “On Jeremy’s twenty-one inch monitor with it’s sixteen million colors a whirling vortex appears.” (Skurzynski). The way that Nethergrave uses technology is less effective because a portal out of a computer screen just doesn’t make sense.
Overall, these examples illustrate that Sound of thunder uses technology better.
When it comes to character development, Nethergrave helps us to get to know the main character better. In Nethergrave, the author helps us to know the main character by showing a little backstory before everything happens. For example, the story states, “It didn’t matter that he’d delibrately forgot to bring his