A Sound of thunder comprehension

Comprehension Questions:

1. The penalty for disobeying instructions is $10,000 and possible government actions.

2. If Deutscher had gotten in they would have wanted to go back to 1492.

3. Trevor says that this is the best way to kill a dinosaur :  Put your first two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them, and go back into the brain.

4. The men travelled sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years back in time.

5. The ant-gravity metal path's purpose is so the men don't touch the world of the past in any way.

6. The machine and the men's clothes were sterilized.

7. The men wear oxygen helmets so the ancient atmosphere is kept clean of the men's bacteria in there breath.

8. The unique thing about the dinosaurs that they can shoot are animals that are going to die soon later in the nature.

9. "I'm shaking like a kid." said Eckels jokingly.

10. "It can't be killed," said Eckels after he met the dinosaur.

11. The men know which dinosaurs to shoot by marking the dinosaurs with red paint before the actual safari.

12. Billings and Kramer threw up after the dinosaur was dead.

13. Travis makes Eckels take the bullets out of the dinosaur.

14. Eckels notices the sign was different, it sounded the same if you read it out but spelt differently.

15. Eckels found a dead butterfly on the bottom of his boots.

Extension Questions:

1. What I inferred was that something tragic was going to happen.

He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon.

 

This means that Travis is going to shoot Eckles. This is an inference.

 

 

2.My Paragraph: Eckels stood smelling of the air...

 

'His body screamed silence in return.'

 

This helps enhance the story by saying that Eckels was screaming inside because of the horror of Travis' madness.

 

'The colours, white, grey, blue, orange, in the wall,'

 

This shows sight imagery this makes the story more 'colourful '

 

'What sort of world it was now, there was no telling.'

 

This is saying that the world as they knew it in the story was probably changed dramatically.

 

3.

 

a) 'Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon.

There was a sound of thunder.

This foreshadows that Travis shot Eckels.'

b) 'You joking? You know very well.'

This foreshadows that everyone knows except for them because they changed the whole world, especially the new president of the USA.

c) "I've hunted tiger, wild boar, buffalo, elephant, but now, this is it," said Eckels.

This foreshadows that Eckels is an experienced hunter but he is really scared of the
Tyrannosaurus Rex.

d) 'I might kill you yet. I've got my gun ready.'

This foreshadows that Travis is mad at Eckels and Travis could kill Eckels.

e) "We guarantee nothing," said the official, "except the dinosaurs."

This foreshadows that Eckels is probably going to hunt dinosaurs. 

Bonus Question:

Anaphora: When the same word or phrase is used at the beginning of a series of sentences, that's anaphora.

The Machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur. The Machine stopped.

Metaphor: To transfer a quality from one thing to another.

Each leg was a piston.

Simile: comparing two things using like or as.


My symbolism from the story:

'They're marked with red paint,'

The colour red symbolises danger.