This story is about Eckel. He went to the past on a time travel machine to kill a T-Rex. When he sees the dinosaur, he gets anxious. Before they could aim and shoot at the T-Rex, it had already spotted them and was coming for them. After the dinosaur was dead the leader started to scream at him for putting them at risk. He was warned that if he had killed anything that he wasn’t supposed to in the past, the present would be changed. Yet he kicked some dirt on the side of the road and killed a butterfly.
This shows that he sometimes is a bit careless and overproud. It is because he was boasting that he had killed wild boars, buffalo, and even elephants. In the beginning, I think he was anxious because he was scared that he wouldn’t come out alive. when he was in the machine, he was still anxious because of that thought. Overall, to me, he is careless and overproud.