Sound Of Thunder Book Vs Movie Essay

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Most of the time, people are ignorant of the true abilities of nature and that it can’t be tamed, or controlled so easily. In the short story “Sound Of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury and the blockbuster movie “Jurassic Park” of 1993, the characters are clueless about the fact that dinosaurs cannot be controlled. In this essay, I will be going over the similarities and differences between the short story and the movie, looking at the key points of the two and finding out how they relate to each other. Jurassic Park has several key features, such as dinosaurs, advanced technology, a large island turned into a prehistoric attraction, a great sense of danger, amazing parental instincts, and much more. Hammond had found that he could recreate dinosaurs, …show more content…

The island was turned into an entertainment/viewing attraction for the public to view live dinosaurs and was created specifically for the dinosaurs to be secure, but seen. While Jurassic Park is fun and technical, in Sound of Thunder, there is time-traveling technology and advanced weaponry the hunters use. They go to hunt dinosaurs in their era, rather than bringing them to the modern human era. The stories have obvious differences with objects in the environment and actions taken, but what about the themes? The themes that separate the two are how Jurassic Park explores the themes of ethical responsibility, man vs nature, the unpredictability of science, survival and resilience, and parental instincts. Sound of Thunder explores the themes of the butterfly effect, environmentalism, moral responsibility, and fear and dread. Now to focus on the objective and action similarities between the two. They both include dinosaurs that the main characters face. The two also bring the past, being prehistoric life, into the present, one with cloning technology and the other with time

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