A Sound Of Thunder Movie And Book Comparison Essay

A Comparison A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury and The Star by H.G. Wells

"A Sound of Thunder" is set in the future year of 2055. It was written by Ray Bradbury. The main character, Eckels, has paid a large sum of money to go on a safari that takes you back into the past and allows you to kill a dinosaur. When they are there Eckels steps on a butterfly and changes the future so that the president who has just lost an election wins it instead and makes the world worse.

"The Star" is written by H.G. Wells and is set in 1897 and tells a story of a comet striking Neptune and narrowly missing Earth. It shows the different reactions of the different people and goes into great detail about the path of the comet.

Because "The

H.G. Wells concentrates on more of the science side of science fiction and Bradbury on the fiction side. Because of this Wells goes into a lot more details about the mass and velocity of the comet rather than what it looked like to different people.

The best way to demonstrate this is in the opening sections of the stories. A Sound of Thunder starts by saying what can be seen by the character whereas The Star sets the scene by telling the reader the time and what was going on at that moment. As it continues "A Sound of Thunder" carries on the describe the character and help the audience get to know him but "The Star" speaks of the scientific announcement that has just been made and what the announcement means.

This pattern continues throughout the stories, as the comet moves on Wells continues to talk about the science behind it and as Eckels travels back in time Bradbury continues to describe what he sees.

At the time Bradbury wrote "A Sound of Thunder", in 1957, World War two was still affecting the world so Bradbury uses a president who