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Mr. Travis warns Eckels
Mr. Travis warns Eckels about the danger of messing around with the past from the future, in which if you change anything, a little single thing, if can affect anything drastically. He tells Eckels to NEVER step off of the Path, because if he steps onto the grass and ends up killing anything, everything would be out of proportion and would cause imbalance. The animals that he can shoot are marked with red paint because it means they already died and won't affect the future in any way. -
Mr. Travis scolds Eckels
In this scene, Mr. Travis scolds Eckels for being playful and not being serious about this mission because if he kills one little thing that he is not allowed to kill, danger in the future could happen. Up ahead, they see the Tyrannosaurus sixty seconds ahead. He also tells everyone to STAY ON THE PATH -
SOUND OF THUNDER
Silence. Sound of Thunder comes a hundred yards away from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. "It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half the trees, a great evil god..." This T-rex was truly a surprise--scary, frightening, and big. -
Dinosaur killed, Eckels
The T-Rex at first came in really fast and Eckels was scared to death he was going to die, but then the other men killed the T-Rex with their guns. Eckels, however, stepped OFF the path into the grass, not knowing that he did so. Another sound of thunder was heard. -
Mr. Travis, Eckels, and bullets
Mr. Travis, unimpossibly mad at Eckels for stepping off the path, tells him to get the bullets out from the monster so that the bullets don't affect the future in any way. However, Eckels DID step off the path... -
Arrived at destination
Eckels and Mr. Travis arrive at the correct time period along with 3 other men in the time machine. While still in the time machine, Eckels asks if a gun can kill a dinosar and Travis responds with "If you hit them right" -
Which dinosaur? Going back in time
Eckels is told which dinosar he has to kill. He has to shoort a Tyrannosaurus rex, "the most incredible monster in history"
He is also somewhat frightened at what will happen, but ends up going into the Time Machine, taking him back -
Sound of Thunder
Sound of Thunder, written by Ray Bradbury, is a story that depicts how small changes in nature can affect anything in the future. -
Sign on the wall
The sign on the wall is in English. It is in all capitalized print, which must means that it is important or it may just be the rules and guidelines. The name is TIME SAFARI, INC, which means that it is a corporation that takes you to the past. -
Meeting Mr. Travis, Time Machine, election
Eckels meets Mr. Travis, the Safari Guide in the Past. He is given the rules of listen to him otherwise penalties are to occur. He also sees a real Time Machine, which is unbelievable to him to be able to go back in time. He is also glad that Keith won the election and not Deutscher, because otherwise he would've run away. -
Back to the Present, and Something is Wrong
The men go back to the present in the time machine and discover something is wrong. Eckels then lifts up his shoe and sees a batterfly, very beautiful and dead, which changes the alphabet and the presidential election. One single butterfly. Eckels then falls to the floor and Travis, lifts his weapon, and then there was the sound of thunder.
