In Ray Bradbury’s short story A Sound of Thunder is about an old hunter named Eckels who wants to go back in time to hunt a T-Rex. He is very cowardly until he learns about the gun he’s using where he becomes confident as he thinks he is in control. He becomes terrified once he realizes that he may die and is not in control. He also sees the precautions taken by the hunting company but doesn’t want to believe that something he does could endanger the entire human population. He doesn’t want to believe that they weren’t in complete control.
Eckles likes being in complete control, which is mostly why he hunts to seem like he can do anything and is in complete control. Once he sees the guns he becomes very confident in his abilities with such a powerful weapon. He thinks he is in complete control until he sees the power and size of the T-Rex. He wants to be in control so he hunts to feel superior and stronger than everything else.
Once he sees all of the precautions taken by the safari company he either doesn’t understand why they take such precautions or he doesn’t want to. He wants to believe that they are in complete control so he doesn’t think that if he messes up he could ruin civilization completely. He proceeds to mess up and stray off of the path in a panic. The safari leaders also don’t really take the butterfly effect seriously, they only care about money and the history of humanity is a kind of afterthought to them, they really don’t take this sort of thing seriously at all.
In conclusion The Sound of Thunder is a deep story which sort of reflects how humans want to show that they care about the environment but they don’t really care about it at all. Along with this the story talks about the consequences of time travel and how the smallest action could bite you in the butt with a gigantic effect. Overall the story was a deep story that reflected on many aspects of humanity.