A Sound of Thunder is a short story written by Ray Bradbury which belongs to the genre of science fiction. Set in a near future where time travel is possible, this is the story of a travel agency, Time Safari Inc., that arranges hunting trips back in time to hunt dinosaurs. In this case, a nervous hunter, Eckels, steps off the trail, and steps on a butterfly. The historical repercussions of the death of a single butterfly, compounded by millions of years of effects, leaves the hunters to return to a future that is not quite the one they came from. In this commentary I will analyze the tone structure and literary devices used by the author in this story.

The structure of the story is one of the most interesting things. The author uses the length of the paragraphs to manipulate the speed and time of the story; the shortest paragraph is three words long, whereas the longest has twenty lines. By controlling the length of the paragraphs, Bradbury can produce a feeling of quickness or......

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Title: A Sound Of Thunder
Approximate Word Count: 375
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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