A Sound of Thunder

Exposition

Dec 25, 1901

The setting takes place in the future America in which time travel has become possible. In this future, there is a time traveling agency in which a customer can pay a large sum of money to head back in time and hunt a dinosaur.

Rising Action #1

Dec 26, 1901

The protagonist Eckels comes to the hunting agency and pays to go back 60 million years and hunt a tryrannosaurus rex.

Rising Action #2

Dec 27, 1901

The second part of the rising action is when the hunters and the guides go back 61 million years to the time of the dinosaurs to hunt a tyrannosaurus rex.

Rising Action #3

Dec 28, 1901

The next part to the rising action is when the Safari leaders teach the Eckels and the other hunters how to kill the dinosaur.

Rising Action #4

Dec 29, 1901

The final part of the rising action is when Travis, a Safari leader, describes the precautions they use when in the past like the path or the careful selection of prey. He also goes into detail on the butteryfly theory and how stepping on a small animal in the past can cause drastic changes to the future.

Climax

Dec 30, 1901

The climax of the story is when Eckels panicks at the site of the tyranosaurus rex and steps off the path. This also causes the dinosaur to start bolting for the hunters and almost leads to their deaths.

Falling Action #1

Dec 31, 1901

The major part of the falling action is when Travis yells at Eckels for stepping off the path and almost forces him to stay in the past.

Falling Action #2

Jan 1, 1902

Another part of the falling action is when Travis forces Eckels to go retrieve the bullets lodged in the tyrannosaurus rex.

Resolution

Jan 2, 1902

Resolution occurs when Travis shoots Eckels after seeing that their present has changed.