Similarities Between A Sound Of Thunder And To Kill A Mockingbird

Most people have read a book in school. Most people typically don’t like those books; Even so, the books that are read in school teach things that are valuable and relevant throughout life. An example of a distinguishable school book would be “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee it is a book that has a recognizable name, but due to people associating it with school can sometimes be dreaded or overlooked. Likewise, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is not as popular as “To Kill a Mockingbird”, but most people would recognize the author Ray Bradbury as the author of “Fahrenheit 451” and turn away from reading it. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is centered around Atticus Finch, a Caucasian lawyer, defending Tom Robinson, an African American who has

The definition of valuable is extremely useful or important. Stories in general are useful and important because of the theme or message portrayed from the story. In other words, people are able to learn things through stories because only so much can be learned from experience. The value in “A Sound of Thunder” is the theme or moral of the story. After Eckels ignores the rules and leaves the assigned path he steps on a butterfly, and when he goes back to the present he has ultimately changed the timeline. Through the story readers learn to follow the directions of people who have had more experience than them; readers also learn that the things they do today could change the future forever. This story is useful because it’s hard to see change when you're living in it, so the sharp contrast of past to future helps readers get the theme from something that would have been hard to learn from personal experience. “A Sound of Thunder” is valuable to the education system because it provides an example of actions having major life changing effects that people wouldn’t be able to realize through their own experiences. Likewise, “To Kill a Mockingbird” teaches readers through the example of the characters. Through Atticus Finch readers learn to do the right thing, he defended Tom

Unlike valuable, relevance is more about being able to apply themes of stories to life than just learning a lesson from a story. In “A Sound of Thunder” Eckels and the reader was able to learn that actions have consequences, but the story takes place in the future, so it’s relevance to today is sometimes blown over. Ray Bradbury, the author, was trying to get across a message through a story, which he did, but the story isn’t important unless it can be applied to everyone no matter when it’s read. People can use the theme of the story to think about things before they do them, big or small, everything impacts someone in a way, shape, or form. Therefore, people can apply the theme in “A Sound of Thunder” today to think before doing something, which will overall better life for everyone if consequences are thought of before thoughts are acted upon. Similarly, “To Kill a Mockingbird” has themes that can acted upon to create a better future for people. Most people like to quit when they have failed and not see it through to the end, but through “To KIll a Mockingbird” people can learn from Atticus’ example that giving in when they feel they’ve like lost will make it worse. To not give up completely so the problem can have some progress to the goal instead of wasted time and wasted progress. At the end of the trial the verdict was Tom Robinson was guilty, but