...Every action a person takes in his or her life will certainly have a cause and an effect which can be positive or negative in addition to having an intense impact or a negligible one. According to Oxford English Dictionary the butterfly effect is the phenomenon whereby a very insignificant change in a complex system can significantly alter an anticipated course of events. In his fantasy style short story, “A Sound of Thunder”, Ray Bradbury rise to the well-known theory, which was later coined by American meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz in 1961, known as the “Butterfly Effect” (Lorenz). Bradbury demonstrates the butterfly effect by illustrating to the reader how a single event or action in the present can have a significant impact on the future. Through his use of technology, in this case a time machine, to create a theme that centralizes around the butterfly effect. In addition through the protagonist’s, Eckels, persona Bradbury illustrates the butterfly effect. Bradbury creates Bradbury...
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