Compare And Contrast A Sound Of Thunder And Nethergrave

Throughout this unit we’ve been reading about technology, fantasy worlds, time travel, and virtual reality. In this essay I’m going to discuss the stories “A Sound of Thunder” and “Nethergrave.” I will give a brief synopsis of each story, as well as, compare and contrast the works with each other. In “A Sound of Thunder,” a man named Mr. Eckles travels 65 million years into the past to hunt the most feared animal. While he’s out hunting, Eckles realizes that his prey is too much for him. This realization causes him to break the number one rule of his time travelling experience. Eckles runs off his predetermined and kills a butterfly. This then causes an irreversible chain reaction in history that ultimately leads to Eckles death. “Nethergrave,” on the other hand, is the story of a teenage boy named Jeremy. In the story Jeremy feels out of place and like he doesn’t belong, even though he is part of a soccer team. During a game Jeremy scores a goal for the opposing team. His teammates get angry and he goes home embarrassed. At this point Jeremy decides to escape the real world and hangout with his online friends, but they ditch him for their everyday lives. It’s a little while later when Jeremy gets sucked into a virtual reality world. He chooses to remain in this world as opposed to returning to his life in the

First off, they are both science fiction stories. “A Sound of Thunder” is a story about time travel, while “Nethergrave” is about virtual reality. Another similarity is that the main characters in both the stories die in their “real worlds.” One is the result of a chain reaction from stepping a butterfly, the other by choosing to remain in a virtual reality. Finally, in both stories the characters leave their real worlds for new and different experiences. Eckles leaves to go on a great hunting expedition, while Jeremy leaves to escape the loneliness and isolation he