Sound Of Thunder
A Sound of Thunder is a great story written by Ray Bradbury, however, Nethergrave is an even better story written by Gloria Skurzynski. Though both of these stories are science fiction, I enjoyed reading Nethergrave more than Sound of Thunder, the story has more of a unique feature to it, seeing as it is not set in the future and most science fiction stories are set in the future like A Sound of Thunder. Also the imagery in Gloria’s story grabs my attention unlike in Sound of Thunder. Both of these stories are great at grabbing the readers attention as it grabbed mine.
These two stories are science fiction, the reason being is because in The Sound of Thunder the setting is set in the future, it is set in 2055. Science fiction is mostly based …show more content…
These authors use characterization as a literary element. For example in the story Nethergrave, Jeremy’s parent’s characterizations have abandoned and neglected Jeremy emotionally for the majority of his life. It is different for his friends, as for Jeremy’s online friends it is insecure and worried about how others view them, as Jeremy appears to be. The guys do not show the whole truths about who they really are, they are all thinking that is the only way that the rest of them will accept them. There are things about each of the people in the group that Jeremy does not know of. Characterization in Sound of Thunder was Eckels nervousness, it shows this by many of his actions for example, Ray Bradbury writes “Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff. He felt the trembling in his arms, and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle.” (70) Once the time machine returns with Eckels and some employees, things seem to be very different to him. Eckels can’t read the sign and when he ask’s a strange man who won the presidential election, the man tells Eckels that a another candidate is in office. The man says “You joking? You know very well. Deutscher, of course!”(460) This candidate was the one who was President when he left. Those are a couple ways both authors use characterization in their
These two stories are science fiction, the reason being is because in The Sound of Thunder the setting is set in the future, it is set in 2055. Science fiction is mostly based …show more content…
These authors use characterization as a literary element. For example in the story Nethergrave, Jeremy’s parent’s characterizations have abandoned and neglected Jeremy emotionally for the majority of his life. It is different for his friends, as for Jeremy’s online friends it is insecure and worried about how others view them, as Jeremy appears to be. The guys do not show the whole truths about who they really are, they are all thinking that is the only way that the rest of them will accept them. There are things about each of the people in the group that Jeremy does not know of. Characterization in Sound of Thunder was Eckels nervousness, it shows this by many of his actions for example, Ray Bradbury writes “Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff. He felt the trembling in his arms, and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle.” (70) Once the time machine returns with Eckels and some employees, things seem to be very different to him. Eckels can’t read the sign and when he ask’s a strange man who won the presidential election, the man tells Eckels that a another candidate is in office. The man says “You joking? You know very well. Deutscher, of course!”(460) This candidate was the one who was President when he left. Those are a couple ways both authors use characterization in their