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A Sound of Thunder (short story)
A Sound of Thunder is a Science Fiction short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel. It is the original story from which the term "butterfly effect" was derived.
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What creates the sound of thunder?
Lightning is extremely hot, with temperatures ranging from 30,000 to 60,00 degrees Fahrenheit. This superheating of the air occurs almost instantaneously, causing the air to expand at a supersonic rate and causing a shock wave that then becomes thunder.
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What is an example of hyperbole in the story a sound of thunder?
it could reach up and grab the moon.
What is the ending of The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury?
it it is suppose to be an open ending for you to imagine the end but in my opinion it is one of two things it is ethier he kiled him as he said that travis prepared his rifle or it is a dinousour that still existed to that time because of the change he made to the past
How many times was thunder mentioned in A Sound of Thunder?
It's been a while since I read the story but it is definitely as least TWO. If you count the title Three.
Examples of cause and effect in the story A Sound of Thunder?
Cause: When Eckels stepped off the path, he inadvertently stepped on and killed a butterfly.
Effect: When Eckels and the others returned to the future, they found that people were "stupid" (examples: the spelling on the sign was incorrect; the people voted for the dictator rather than the "good guy" for President).
Why: By killing the butterfly, Eckels made every descendant of that butterfly cease to exist. Animals that might have benefited from those butterflies, perhaps by eating them, or eating animals that ate butterflies, would not be able to do so. Some animals may have gone extinct altogether; some may have been undernourished or underdeveloped as a result. The "butterfly effect" eventually traveled up the food chain to human beings. Because the food chain was altered, human beings developed differently, seemingly less well than they had in the original time line, and because of those developmental differences, the humans in the future made some different choices than what they would have done had Eckels not stepped on the butterfly. Because of the time travel paradox, Eckels (or one of the others) could not go back in time to stop Eckels from stepping off the path, so he had to pay for the damage he had done, with his life.
Do you have to evacuate a pool at the sound of thunder?
yes/ask Oklahoma mederoligest Gary England.just an old okie
What is an allusion in A Sound of Thunder?
There are a number of allusions in "A Sound of Thunder." Mentioned are Christ, Queen Elizabeth, the hills of Rome, the Great Pyramids, Washington crossing the Delaware River. The mentioning of 1492, 1776, and 1812 refer to Columbus' discovery of America, the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution, and the War of 1812 respectively.
How can you tell the difference between the sound of thunder or the sound of a jet plane?
The sound of jet planes move farther and farther but thunder sounds is only in one place
If thunder and lightning occur together close to you, you are dangerously close to a lightning bolt.
Who is Eckel in the story The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury?
He is the main character in the story and also a hunter-which didn't follow the rules and changed the future.
What was bradburys purpose of writing a sound of thunder?
In this story, Bradbury was probably trying to show that even very small parts of the natural world are key to how life in general, and humans in particular, have evolved. This is sybolized by the destruction of a butterfly in the past, which seems to have an effect on human government in the future.
What complications are there in A sound of thunder by Ray Bradbury?
Just stay away from lightning ya'll, ya'll understand me
What does Eckels find on the botton of his boot in the book the sound of thunder?
Fecal matter, of canine origin.
What is the external conflict for a sound of thunder?
The tyrannosaurus for one.
The need not to disturb the ancient world is also a constant concern.
it is a concept that is only for really deep thinkers. if you do not have the attention span to contemplate really abstract thoughts, you will not understand it. in it's simplest design, the theory is that every thing is conected to everything else on the planet, if you change one thing (i.e. the killing of the butterfly) you set about a change that impacts everything else in the world In other words when the guy killed the butterfly it wasnt there to like do it's thing like produce or whatever and the generations of that simple butterfly disapiered so what ever animal was going to eat it could'nt and that caused something else to happen then something else so it changed time in a dramatic way!{for the simple people}lol
How can you describe the sound of thunder and lightning?
The thunder sound is like the roar of lion and the lightenting looks like the flashes of the camera.
