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A Sound Of Thunder Foreshadowing Analysis
Foreshadowing is what makes reading a little bit more interesting. It may happen, but not in the way you think it will. In A Sound Of Thunder, you find foreshadowing everywhere, but you don’t know how it will happen. There’s three outcomes that assisted my thinking of what was going to happen.
On page 38, Eckels asked, “Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?”, which led us to believe that he might die in a tragic way. On page 41, Travis speaks saying, “Stay on the Path, Don’t go off it. I repeat. Don’t go off. For any reason!” which made us think that Eckels would most likely step off the Path. The last foreshadow was on page 40. Eckels says, “If election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank

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