Vocabulary
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause.
What is propaganda?
Eckels' looks down at his shoes and sees a butterfly stuck to the bottom dead and realizes he has changed the future.
What is the resolution?
The presidential candidate who has just been elected when Mr. Eckels departs for the safari.
Who is Keith?
A cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor whose son will one day save mankind from extinction by a hostile AI.
What is the Terminator?
Bradbury wrote the story to be suspenseful, serious, and critical by placing the characters in a dilemma of what will happen next.
What is the tone of the story?
An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
What is dystopia?
Eckels is frightened by the dinosaur and he isn't brave enough to shoot it.
WHat is the Climax?
He completes the hunter's transaction for the trip and discusses the deaths of hunters from previous trips.
Who is the company agent?
Three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves.
What is Planet of the Apes?
A Sound of Thunder falls into this category because it deals with a form of science fiction with imaginative or futuristic concepts.
What is the genre?
The close observation of a suspected spy or criminal.
What is surveillance?
Eckels' is going to travel through time to go to a safari to shoot a dinosaur.
What is the exposition?
A sympathetic and patient tour guide appointed by Safari Inc. to mark the dinosaurs for the hunters which are going to die anyway.
Who is Lesperance?
A beautiful stranger leads Neo to a forbidden underworld where he discovers the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
What is the Matrix?
Set in a timed period of 2055at Safari Inc; however, no geographical location is given in the story.
What is the setting?
A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions.
What is utopia?
Eckels' boots are muddy because he stepped off the path and he's ordered back to the time machine by Mr. Travis.
What is the falling action?
He is the tour guide hired by Time Travel Company who instructs the hunters to abide by the rules and stay on the metal path and becomes outraged when one of the hunters wanders off the path.
Who is Mr. Travis?
Thomas wakes up in a metal elevator that brings him to the Glade. He gradually discovers that the Glade is run by Alby and Newt who both maintain order by enforcing simple but effective rules.
What is the Maze Runner?
Bradbury has told this story from the third-person omniscient narration.
What is the point of view?
The process of depriving a person or group od positive human qualities.
What is dehumanization?
Eckels' and the rest of the crew got into the time machine, and they set off on their trip to a time 60 million, two thousand and fifty-five years before the present day.
What is the rising action?
The protagonist hunter who wants to hunt dinosaurs by traveling back into the past but marks his own death in the story by crushing a butterfly.
Who is Mr. Eckel?
In a world divided by factions based on virtues, teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their faction or switch to another-for the rest of their lives.
What is Divergent?
The "metal path" is used to teach guidance and teachings of religion, "bullets" represent weapons of mass destruction, "thunder" represent death, and the "butterfly" used for ecological balance.
What is symbolism?