What if every choice you made, even the small ones, could potentially change the path of your future? Every action has a purpose. In A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, there is a time safari that people can pay ten thousand dollars to go on. They pay ten thousand dollars, choose an animal, get taken to it, and you get to shoot it. There are many rules on the safari because even the slightest movement could change the future. Eckels has paid and chosen his animal and is going back in time to kill it. He chooses to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. When facing the T-Rex he gets scared, goes off of the path and kills a butterfly on accident. They end up killing the T-Rex anyways, but there was debate on letting Eckels come back. Everyone who went back in time, eventually all go back to 2055, but they all question Eckels on what he could’ve done. Upon return, things are different than they were before. The author shows that every action has a purpose through foreshadowing, repetition, and the change in setting.
The first craft move Ray Bradbury uses is foreshadowing. He uses this in the text to show us that every action has a reaction or a purpose. On lines 81-84, it says “‘We don’t want to change the Future. We don’t …show more content…
On lines 3-7 it says, “TIME SAFARI, INC. SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST. YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU SHOOT IT.” This sign is clearly important, as it shows what the time safari is and what they are doing. Later in the text this sign is seen again, but after they return from the past the sign is different. It now reads on lines 311-315, “TYME SEFARI INC. SEFARIS TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST. YU NAIM THE ANIMALL. WEE TAEK YU THAIR. YU SHOOT ITT.” The sign is repeated and has extreme significance. The sign does not only have several small changes, but it changes drastically. This shows how much small actions can change, in the text, it changes their entire language and how they spell