How would you react to being pursued by a vicious dinosaur? Or how about an enraged crocodile? The two stories “A Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey” have many similar qualities, but are also developed differently. In the stories, their conflicts, protagonists, and settings are very similar. Both involve bad decisions, dangerous conditions, and major consequences. These decisions change the plot of the story because the characters end up in some unexpected situations. Therefore, both stories may develop contrarily, but have many alike traits.
“A Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey’s” settings can be contrasted, but primarily compared. Both of the stories feature threatening surroundings that foreshadow trouble for the characters. Furthermore, the stories have predators, but of different species. In addition, “A Sound of Thunder” is set in the year 2055, and “Being Prey” is in the present, making certain elements of the stories different. Also, in both stories humans are where they normally shouldn’t be, leading to the main conflicts. So their settings can be compared or contrasted in many ways. “A Sound of…show more content… In “A Sound of Thunder”, Eckels is foolish to have signed up to hunt dinosaurs, but then risk everyone’s lives because he wasn’t prepared for the action and risk it entitles. He says, “No, it can’t be. Not a little thing like that. No!” after he steps on the butterfly, which shows he regrets what he did accidentally. Plumwood is also foolish, because she doesn’t trust her instincts when she senses that she may be in danger. In “Being Prey”, it says “I would be safe from crocodiles in the canoe- I had been told- but swimming and standing or wading at the water’s edge were dangerous.” Plumwood doesn’t realize her mistakes made in the beginning would have such outrageous consequences. They both also ignored directions given to them which led to the repercussions in their
