Thursday, November 17, 2016

Annihilate- destroy, utterly, obliterate
Expandable- able to expand or be expanded
Infinitesimally- extremely small
Primeval- resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world
Resilient- able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching or being compressed
Revoke- put an end to the validity or operation of a discussion
Sheathe- in a close fitting or protective cover
Subliminal- below the threshold of sensations of consciousness
Taint- a trace of a bad or undesirable quality or substance
Undulate- more with smooth wavelike motion

Foreshadowing- Bradbury describes a safari back to the time of dinosaurs. Eckels, a hunter is warned not to disturb the jungle, but his actions result in a future dictatorial government and his own death

ex. " so be careful, stay on the path. Never step off ! "

Simile ex : " time was a film backwards "
" the monster lay, a hill of solid flesh"

Metaphor ex: "Thunder" is the main metaphor in this story, used to describe the sheer physical awesomeness of the dinosaur. The Thunder refers to killing of anything, killing a butterfly an " Thunder" on and change the world

The protagonist is thunder
The antagonist is time
 Eckels visits the times safari mic. 
A stiff penalty of 10,000 and government action. 
Eckels was thankful that Keith was elected president of the U.S 
If Deutscher won they would want to go back to 1492 
Travis tells eckels that 6 safari leaders and 12 hunters were killed 
The safari lead is Mr. Travis 
There were 6 in total including, Eckels, Travis, Lesperance, Billings , & Kramer 
Travis tells eckels to shoot them in the eye to blind them, then shoot them in the brain 
Travis hasn't told them the good Christ, the pyramids, etc and the bad  Napoleon, Hitler of the world doesn't exist 
The men traveled 60,002,055 yrs 
The antigravity metal, path is used to walk on, son no one disturbs the past 
Travis makes Eckels dig out the billets with a knife as a punishment 
Eckels notices on the sign the the language was changed and is more positive 
Eckels finds a dead butterfly from the past under his boots 
Eckels learns that Deutsther won the election 
Travis shoots Eckels because he changed the future 



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