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What Is Similar A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder” and Gloria Skurzynski’s ‘Nethergrave’ are both science fiction short stories that its main characters with the help of very advanced technology are able to traverse the hand of time and manage to live in a different world, ‘the other world”. A Sound of Thunder Eckels with a couple of his friends by using time traveler machine travel to Jurassic period to hunt Dinosaurs and are able to live in that time and experience real-time events.

Nethergrave by Gloria Skurzynski

In the ‘Nethergrave’ the main character Jeremy by the help of his hi-tech computer is able to ‘physically’ go into ‘the other world’ as an avatar, (jaguar) and he is able to experience events as the living jaguar could, for example, he looked through its eyes. Also, when his mom walks into the room, Jeremy was not in the room yet the Jaguar was on Jeremy’s computer screen.

In the ‘Nethergrave’ Jeremy is able to go to the "other world" when he online quartet chatting with his friends who except for the pretty girl Princedie all lie about who they really are in real life. This means that the three are living in a fictional world.

Both short stories envision that in the future man will develop advanced programs that will be able to take the man into a fictional world and influence the occurrence of timely events that can affect their future lives. They both speculate on the possible effects that these advanced programs can have on a man.

Differences Between A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Summary

One of the differences between the short stories is that "A Sound of Thunder" is pure science fiction where things only happen in future settings 2255 AD and in the Jurassic period whereas in ‘Nethergrave’ things happen in real-world that translates into a fictional world.

In ‘A Sound of Thunder’ very small actions translates into tremendous effects in time as the author refers them to “infinitesimally”, for example, a Jurassic butterfly accidentally killed by Eckels leads to extreme changes in the future like the change in the US president and even language spelling. In ‘Nethergrave’ Jeremy’s detailed day’s activities like being forced to play football, coming late for the chat, and his friends signing out earlier does not influence him to join Nethergrave. Events event coincidentally.

Summary of Nethergrave by Gloria Skurzynski

‘Nethergrave’ involves its main character changing his identity into someone else ‘a jaguar’ for him to be able to access ‘the other world’ but in ‘A Sound of Thunder’ the real-time characters are the same ones in ‘the other world’, they never change their identity but the rules of engagement change.

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