“A Sound of Thunder” and “Nethergrave”
Words: 987 1154The gun barrel gleamed under the artificial jungle light as Eckels stepped off the metal path, his boots crushing a single butterfly beneath him. I first encountered Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" in my sophomore year American Literature class at Arizona State, the same semester I read Gloria Skurzynski's "Nethergrave" for an assignment on technology and reality. Both stories explore how characters escape their dissatisfying lives through alternate realities, but they reach opposite conclusions about whether such escapes offer […]
