The story, “A Sound of Thunder,” by Ray Bradbury, shows how anything has the potential to change everything. “A Sound of Thunder” is about a man named Eckles who went to a time-traveling safari in hopes of being able to kill a tyrannosaurus rex. However, when he, Travis and Lesperance, the safari guides, and two other clients, get to the past, Eckles freaks out and doesn’t want anything to do with the tyrannosaurs rex anymore. Throughout the story, Travis constantly reminds Eckles about staying on the path and what would happen if he disturbed the life on earth in the past: “Say we kill one Mouse here. That means all future families of this one particular mouse is destroyed,”(Bradbury, 226). Even going as far as saying “step on a mouse, you crush the pyramids.” (227). This further explains through that example that changing anything, even something as insignificant as saying a mouse or even a blade of grass, because all possible futures with that one thing(the grass I guess) would be destroyed and the present would follow the one future with that thing(the grass). The character of Travis, written to be the supporting character of this story, explains about how something here and there had the possibility of effecting what other things, animals, and especially people do due to their environmental difference. “Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity. Queen Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all…”(227). Everything has to happen the exact same way from the start to eternity and for there to be a difference in the past, all other actions may not have even happened. The story, “A sound of thunder,” describes how all things have the inherent possibility to impact the path of everything.
I didn’t follow the graphic organizer and as a result, I have ended up with one big paragraph instead of two. I sincerely apologize for that.