The Butterfly Effect in “The Sound of Thunder”

The short story “The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, is about the adventure of a man that, thanks to a time machine, returns in the past to live the exciting experience of killing a Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the story, it can be noticed that there is a butterfly effect, the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere. For example, the impact of technology has made decide Eckels’ to try the time machine and go back to the past, but if he had not taken this decision, he would not have been killed for having changed the whole history by leaving the path. Another example could be that the selection of hunt causes drastic reactions, and the effect is the extinction of a species  In conclusion, it can be learned that every event in life is the effect of a previous one, so everything depends on how people do their actions.

One thought on “The Butterfly Effect in “The Sound of Thunder”

  1. Thanks for posting your paragraph on cause and effect for “A Sound of Thunder.” You clearly understand that events in a plot can cause a domino effect and you illustrate examples from the story!

    Thanks for sharing,

    Mr. Barazzuol

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