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How Did The Eckel's Life Change The Future

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By being in the present and going to the past could change the whole future. Making one mistake in the past could change the whole world in the future. All because, someone decided to travel back in time and step on something or even kill something. I'm Ray Bradbury’s short story, “ A Sound of Thunder,” the main character, Eckel, is murdered because he changed history by being scared, met taking responsibility for his actions, and disobeying orders. Eckels never knew being scared would cause his life in the future. Eckels had changed the future of being scared of the past. Eckels had changed the future of being scared of the past. He was scared it from the beginning, so Eckels Went back in time and was too scared of the dinosaur. In that …show more content…
He wanted to fix history and change everything back to normal. Eckels never knew what he had done until, he went to the future and seen what he had done. As, Eckels is running away from the dinosaur he had stepped off the path and stepped on a butterfly and took it back to the present. Eckels never knew stepping on a path could change the future. So, he has the face the consequences of disobeying the orders of the hunter's. Eckels disobeyed the rules or orders that would not change the future. The path that Eckels went off of was a path you do not step off. When Eckels took a step a step off the path it would cause him to be in that time period. The hunters or so mad at Eckels that they made him get the bullets from the dinosaur's mouth but Eckel did not, so Eckel ried to pay his way out.Then, they went to the future, and one of the hunter's, Travis, had killed Eckels. So, Eckels was scared, which caused him to step off the path. Eckels also destroyed Travis's rules by stepping off the path and, Eckels tried to pay his way out of trouble. Travis didn't even want Eckels back in the time machine, then Travis told Eckels he had to get the bullets from the dinosaur's mouth. When the hunters got to the future the whole world to change. Eckels had looked on the bottom of his shoes I found a dead butterfly. Then, all the sudden Travis shot Eckels and killed

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