"A Sound of Thunder"

Today, we begin to read Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder." In addition to thinking about The Hero's Journey in this text, consider some of the following literary traits:

• the effect of genre on the Hero's Journey
• the importance of a text's title
• an author's tone
• the use of suspense in a short story
• foreshadowing as plot development
• what theme the author is trying to convey