Compare the ways in which the authors of

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Compare the ways in which the authors of “A Sound of Thunder” and “The Star” describe events that have an unexpected impact on humanity

“A Sound of Thunder” is set in the future year of 2055. It was written by Ray Bradbury. The main character, Eckels, has paid a large sum of money to go on a safari that takes you back into the past and allows you to kill a dinosaur. When they are there Eckels steps on a butterfly and changes the future so that the president who has just lost an election wins it instead and makes the world worse.

“The Star” is written by H.G. Wells and is set in 1897 and tells a story of a comet striking Neptune and narrowly missing Earth. It shows the different reactions of the different people and goes into great detail about the path of the comet.

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Because “The Star” is set in the nineteenth century, there is an obvious difference in the styles of writing used when compared to “A Sound of Thunder”. H.G. Wells concentrates on more of the science side of science fiction and Bradbury on the fiction side. Because of this Wells goes into a lot more details about the mass and velocity of the comet rather than what it looked like to different people.

The best way to demonstrate this is in the opening sections of the stories. A Sound of Thunder starts by saying what can be seen by ...

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