In the short story, “A Sound of Thunder”, the butterfly effect takes place. The story is about time travel so when a group travels back into the past, they make an impact on the future. Eckels and the safari group travel 60 million years into the past to hunt a dinosaur but they must be very careful not to alter anything. Maybe if Eckels knew what to expect and didn’t fear the T-Rex, he wouldn’t have had to flee back to the time machine. Then, if he never fled back towards the machine he never would’ve stepped off of the path and killed the butterfly. Eckels should have known it was a bad idea for him to hunt a dinosaur in the past, so if he never went, then he may not of performed the series of actions leading to the alter of the future. Because he killed the butterfly, a chain of events occurred all the way back to the future and it ended up making a big difference. When the safari group made it back to 2055, Deustcher was the winner of the election instead of Keith, and the spelling of words completely changed. The safari leader, Travis was extremely angry at what Eckels did so he shoots and kills him. Eckels could have decided not to go on this safari hunt into the past and this might have prevented the butterfly effect that caused the change in the future. In fact, this decision could have saved his life.