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Setting
Setting
- Eckel's is introduced as a hunter
- Time Safari Inc. lets people travel to the past to hunt animals
- Time Safari does no garuntee survival
- Expensive fees plus high fines for rule breaking -
Time Machine
Time Machine- "Thank god Kieth won" President of the USA
- Deutscher is a dictator and people are happy he lost
- Eckels plans on shooting a Tyrannosaurus Rex
- They dont want hunters to panic last minute.
- There are 5 people in total going back in the time machine.
- Dinosaurs can be killed if shot in the right spot
- The machine has taken them back in time
- "Stay on the path" "Don't go off." -
Butterfly effect
Butterfly Effect- hunters not allowed to shoot animals unless they're 'ok'ed
- one small animal killed in past affects the future
- not sure if they can change the future but chaos theory is still thoght about
- animals marked with red paint are allowed to shoot
- paradox - hunters can't see themselves so machine skips over them going back in time
- can't see the result of their ttrip
- they leave the machine -
Dinosaur
Dinosaur- setting surrounded by forest trees and flying pterodactyls
- no aiming for fun
- Eckels has the first shot
- T rex is spotted
- first reference to thunder
- dinosaur is described
- imagery, similes and metaphors used to describe dinosaur
- Eckels is backing out "It can't be killed"
- dino has not seen the hunters yet
- travis, the safari leader, tries to calm down eckels
- dino finally sees the hunters -
Dinosaur attack
Dinosaur attack- Eckels is panicking
- Eckels tries going back to the time machine
- men start to shoot at t rex
- Eckels walks off the path
- men see themselves mirrored in the creatures eyes
- they shoot at it's eyes
- T rex falls
- they kept shooting until it was dead
- "The thunder faded. The jungle wasnsilent." -
After the shooting
After the shooting- Billings and Kramer throw up
- Eckels in the time machine scared after coming back from going off path
- Men start to clean themselves up
- "You could here..." its dying
- the branch that was supposed to kill the t rex falls on time
- Men can't take back body but don't want picture either -
Eckel's fault
Eckel's Fault- Travis makes Eckels go back out
- travis wants to leave Eckels to keep the safari going
- Eckels has to at least bring back all the bullets to keep them from changing anything
- Eckels collects te bullets and passes out
- They go back to their time -
Back Home
Back Home- Travis is panicking, Eckels thinks it doesnt change anything
- They get back and things feel different
- Travis kicks out Eckels and tells him to never come back
- Things feel different but they don't know why -
Real Butterfly
Real Butterfly- Spelling is different in Safari time sign
- Eckels realizes that he changed something
- A beautiful butterfly is found dead in the mud left by Eckels
- Eckels asked who won the election
- "Deutscher, of course! Who else? Not that fool weakling Keith. We get an iron man now,"
- Eckels wants to go back and fix things
- Travis shoots Eckels without hesitation
- "There was a sound of thunder."
