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Sound Of Thunder Foreshadow
In the story “A Sound of Thunder”, it is practically throwing foreshadow at you. This story was about a man, Eckels, who goes back into the past with a Safari Guide to shoot a Tyrannosaurus rex. “Stay on the Path. Don’t go off it. I repeat. Don’t go off. For any reason!” That sentence should show most of the foreshadow. So you would think, yes. Eckels is definitely going to run off the Path, and so he does. Which messes up the present world. Running off the Path is not the only thing that could possibly foreshadow that Eckels would ruin mostly about this traveling to the past safari hunting trip, aiming for killing a dinosaur. It could foreshadow that he gets eaten by the giant dinosaur. The dinosaur ends up dying, but Eckels Safari Guide

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