The sound of thunder questions.

The penalty for disobeying instructions is 10 thousand dollars and a possible government action

Some people wanted to travel back to 1942 because then Christopher Columbus discovered America and because they hated Deutscher so much.

To shoot the dinosaur between the eyes to blind them and then shoot the brain.

60 million 2 thousand and fifty five years before president Keith.

Because if they do they might change the future and they really don't want to do that.

Their bodies and clothes were sterilised.

They wore oxygen masks because they didn't want their bacteria in the past because it could change time.

The dinosaurs that the men could shoot were covered in red paint.

He pretends to shoot the pterodactyls.

He whispered "it, it"

Billings and Kramer threw up.

Eckels had to take the bullets out of the tyrannosaurus head with a knife.

He noticed that the sign's spelling was spelled completely wrong however everything was the same.

He found mud and a brilliant butterfly.

1. The first time the author used the sound of thunder I think he meant the foot steps of the Tyrannosaurus rex running at them, I inferred this because they were hunting the T. rex and anyway it was a giant creature and as it walked I'd say it was pretty loud. After, when he used the thunder faded the dinosaur was killed. At the when the story finished, the author meant that the character either shot himself or shot Eckels. I infer that because he had the rifle and he couldn't believe that the world has changed because of their mistake.

2. Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there. The colors, white, gray, blue, orange, in the wall, in the furniture, in the sky beyond the window, were . . . were . . . . And there was a feel. His flesh twitched. His hands twitched. He stood drinking the oddness with the pores of his body. Somewhere, someone must have been screaming one of those whistles that only a dog can hear. His body screamed silence in return. Beyond this room, beyond this wall, beyond this man who was not quite the same man seated at this desk that was not quite the same desk . . . lay an entire world of streets and people. What sort of world it was now, there was no telling. He could feel them moving there, beyond the walls, almost, like so many chess pieces blown in a dry wind ....

Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there. This is smell imagery because it describes a smell and how slight and weak the smell is. This enhances the story by making you think that it is different than before.

He stood drinking the oddness with the pores of his body.  I think this is feeling imagery because it shows how awkward and weird Eckels feels. It helps the story because the description makes the story much more interesting and and also makes it more awkward because if you think about pores, you don't feel very natural.

Beyond this room, beyond this wall, beyond this man who was not quite the same man seated at this desk that was not quite the same desk . . . lay an entire world of streets and people. I think this is visual imagery because it describes how different the world is because of such a tiny mistake on their part.

3."Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?"
"We guarantee nothing,"
I think that this foreshadows that Eckels will die because they don't guarantee him coming back alive. However, he did come back but after he got shot.

"Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."

This foreshadows that when they come back Keith won’t win the presidency. It's kind of ironic because they say that if he would lose the election they would change it but they go back in time and make Deutcher win the elections.

"And that," he said, "is the Path, laid by Time Safari for your use,
It floats six inches above the earth. Doesn't touch so much as one grass blade, flower, or tree. It's an anti-gravity metal. Its purpose is to keep you from touching this world of the past in any way. Stay on the Path. Don't go off it. I repeat. Don't go off. For any reason! If you fall off, there's a penalty. And don't shoot any animal we don't okay."



I think this foreshadows that Eckels will get off the path in a panic and he will change time because of coming off of the path.

"Correct. Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion. Of course maybe our theory is wrong. Maybe Time can't be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in little subtle ways. A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in far-flung countries. Something much more subtle, like that. Perhaps only a soft breath, a whisper, a hair, pollen on the air, such a slight, slight change that unless you looked close you wouldn't see it. Who knows? Who really can say he knows? We don't know. We're guessing. But until we do know for certain whether our messing around in Time can make a big roar or a little rustle in history, we're being careful. This Machine, this Path, your clothing and bodies, were sterilized, as you know, before the journey. We wear these oxygen helmets so we can't introduce our bacteria into an ancient atmosphere."

I think that this foreshadows that by destroying somethings so little the eye couldn’t see it would make a change in the future.

"A Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Tyrant Lizard, the most incredible monster in history. Sign this release. Anything happens to you, we're not responsible. Those dinosaurs are hungry."

I think this foreshadows that the dinosaur will be too terrifying for Eckels because the receptionist knows what the dinosaur looks like and, it's massive and extremely hard to kill.

anaphora

When the same word or phrase is used at the beginning of a series of sentences, that's anaphora. Used to show emphasis in speech or writing, anaphora is a popular tool for politicians, religious leaders, lyricists, and poets.

There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual.

A metaphor is when you take features of something and give it to another thing.

Examples of metaphor.

It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight.

A simile is when you use as or like to compare two things.

Example.

exposing a fence of teeth like daggers.

sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior.

Symbolism is where one thing stand for another thing.

For example.

It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time.

This simbolises that one little fall can have a giant chain reaction.

The butterfly symbolises change thus it symbolises the butterfly affect since the butterfly effect was named after the butterfly in this story.