Eckels In Mark Twain's A Sound Of Thunder

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In the story, A Sound of Thunder, Eckels is impetuous. In the beginning, after he gives them his check, he starts talking confidently about him killing the dinosaur (Line 55). Eckels hasn’t fully comprehended what he’s going up against. This shows his over-confidence that he can kill a T-rex, but that doesn’t happen. This brings up my next point, when Eckels finally see the T-rex, and realizes how massive and terrifying it is in person, he panics and runs off the path (lines 230-235 and 256-259). Eckels was told countless times while with the group that he should stay on path by Travis. Even so much so that Travis talked about the consequences about what will happen if he does, both to Eckels in general and the future itself. But after all

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