Compare And Contrast A Sound Of Thunder And Being Prey

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Adventuring into the wilderness can be exciting if you are careful and follow the rules. In Being Prey and A Sound of Thunder the protagonists both find out how not following the rules and how being careless affects your life forever. The protagonists face dangerous settings and similar conflicts in their stories. The protagonists learn in the end how one simple mistake could change your life forever. In the stories A Sound of Thunder and Being Prey, both stories take place in a dangerous and deadly environment. A sound of Thunder takes place in a prehistoric jungle that has dinosaurs among other giant animals that can potentially kill you. Being Prey has crocodiles that can attack you. On page 90 when the guide say to Val “But don’t go onto the main river channel. The current’s too swift, and if you get into trouble, there are the crocodiles. Lots of them along the river.”, shows how the environments are deadly. Val and Eckles wandered into a place not meant for humans and are expecting not to get hurt, even when they are not listening to the rules provided to them. A Sound of Thunder and Being Prey have a dangerous environment that adds to the setting of the story. A Sound of …show more content…

In A Sound of Thunder the conflict was between Eckles, the protagonist and Travis, the antagonist. Travis would be the antagonist because he was rude to Eckles and murders Eckles at the end of the story. In Being Prey Val is the protagonist and the crocodile is the antagonist. The crocodile becomes the antagonist the moment it tries to kill Val, on page 93 Val says “I had just begun to weep for the prospects of my mangled body when the crocodile pitched me suddenly into a second death roll.” This shows the crocodile attacked and tried to kill her, making it the bad character in the story . The conflicts are similar because both characters in the end get hurt after

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