However, upon returning to the future, the two find out that the world has changed for the worst – and then, much to their horror, see that Eckels has stepped on a butterfly while in the past, supposedly causing the irrevocable change. Yet this careful preparation almost goes to waste – Eckels panics and runs away, and only the actions of his guide Travis save the day. goes to great lengths to minimize the time travelers’ involvement in the distant past – for example, they deliberately choose animals who would have soon died to natural causes anyway (Bradbury 5).
Eckels is going on this trip soon after a certain Deutscher, described only as “a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual” have lost the Presidential election, which puts Eckels and others at ease (Bradbury 2). The story begins with a hunter named Eckels who paid to hunt a Tyrannosaurus Rex (Bradbury 2).
offers rich hunters an opportunity to go back in time to hunt famous creatures.
“A Sound of Thunder” takes place in 2055, when Time Safari Inc. Before analyzing the story as a metaphor for environmentalism, a brief summary is in order.
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