Short Story Unit

The Sound of Thunder
Expert Group Activity  (Listening and Gathering Information):
 

 
 
The Sound of Thunder
by Ray Bradbury






Plot the Narrative Storyline  ("The Plot"

Put the following key events in the correct order by placing the numbers in the ordered boxes below.:

  1. Eckels walks off the path into the jungle.
  2. Eckels comes into the Tyme Safari Office.
  3. Lesperance explains his role as dinosaur tracker.
  4. Travis shifts his rifle. "There was a [second] sound of thunder."
  5. Eckels comes into the Time Safari Office.
  6. The dinosaur approaches "on great oiled, relilient, striding legs.
  7. The guns fired…. "A fount of blood spurted from its throat".
  8. They find Eckels hiding in the machine.
  9. Travis lectures Eckels on the dangers of time travel.
  10. The time machine clicks by the days, the years: "A.D. 2055. A".D. 2019. 1999! Gone!"

 
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Sound of Thunder
 

 the correct order:

Eckels comes into the Time Safari Office.
The time machine clicks by the days, the years:  “A.D. 2055.  A”.D. 2019.  1999!  Gone!”
Travis lectures Eckels on the dangers of time travel.
Lesperance explains his role as dinosaur tracker.
The dinosaur approaches “on great oiled, relilient, striding legs.
Eckels walks off the path into the jungle.
The guns fired…. “A fount of blood spurted from its throat”.
They find Eckels hiding in the machine.
Eckels comes into the Tyme Safari Office.
Travis shifts his rifle.  “There was a [second] sound of thun

 

 
 
 
Character Roles, and Their Traits

Protagonist  (Main Character):

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Antagonist  (Opposes the main character)

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The Secondary (or Minor) Characters
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The Setting.

Adjectives (or similes) to describe -->
 

  • the office
  • the future society
  • the time machine
  • the jungle
  • the path

    • the new society when he returns
     

    Write your descriptions on loose leaf paper.

 
 
The Point or Themes in the Story

Internal Conflicts

1.  Why does Eckels want to go and hunt the dinosaur?
 

2.  How does Eckels feel when he finally confronts his dinasaur?
 

3.  By the end, how has Eckels changed?
 

Environmental Conflicts

4.  Why must they only kill dinosaurs which would die anyway?
 

5.  Why are they upset that Eckels steps off the path?
 

6.  How could killing a butterfly matter?
 

7.  The dead butterfly becomes a symbol, for what?
 
 
 
 

Political Conflicts

8.  President Keith is also a symbol for a certain kind of government.  What kind?
 
 

9.  When they return how do you think the government has changed?  (Guesses)
 
 

10.  What is the deadly mistake the government at the time of Keith made?

 
 
Drawings of the scenes

The Time Safari Office


 
 
 
 
 

 

 

The Jungle Scene


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

The Tyme Safari Office