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Comparing A Sound Of Thunder And Plumwood's In A Sound Of Thunder
What will you happen if you travel back in time?In a Sound of Thunder Did Travis and Eckelsgo back to the future. Why? People are hunting dinosaurs and didn’t follow the rules. InBeing Prey, Plumwood didn’t follow rules either and was also attacked.
In both stories, they both went hunting. In the first story, they were hunting dinosaurs and in the second story she was hunting crocodiles. One was a long time ago and the other was years ago. , they traveled back sixty million years ago and one guy didn’t follow the rules and changed history. got attacked and tried to survive. The crocodile seized at her canoe and almost killed her
In the first story they traveled back sixty million years ago to look for dinosaurs. They were about to hunt for
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