In this activity, you will complete the Final Writing Exam. This activity should take about 90 minutes. Working within the 90-minute time limit can provide you with valuable practice for standardized writing assessments.

Question:

For this writing assessment, you will write a developed fictional narrative in which you create a continuation for Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder."

The main theme of "A Sound of Thunder" is that small changes can make a big impact. At the end of the story, the time travelers return to their century and discover that a dead butterfly from the past has profoundly affected their future.

In your fictional narrative, describe what is happening to the world now that the time travelers have returned.

Consider these points while planning your fictional narrative:

characters: Will you keep the same characters or add new ones?
plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution): Does your story have a beginning, middle, and end? What conflict do the characters face?
setting: When and where is your story set? Will your story begin immediately after the travelers return, or sometime later?
point of view: Is the story told from a point of view of a character within the story? Or is the story told from a point of view of an all-knowing narrator?
vocabulary: You learned many new vocabulary words in this course. Try to use a handful of them in your narrative.
title: Try to give your narrative a catchy title. Your title can even serve as a powerful hook!
Manage your time carefully so that you can plan, write, revise, and edit your narrative. If you are unsure of the requirements for this assessment, please consult with your instructor before submitting.

To review "A Sound of Thunder," click the link.

A Sound of Thunder

Do you think going back in time could be risky? Ray Bradbury explores the consequences of human action and the effects through time in a short story A sound of thunder.

Bradbury lived in 1920 to 2012 he wrote many books and science fiction short story. Time travel allows the common Man to experience the pass in ways never before. Eckels an avid hunter pays 10,000 dollars to travel back to the age of dinosaurs. Because he wanted to try and kill one of them He also wanted

To hunt a tyrannosaur rex. The time outfitting agency wanted to make sure that their customers knew the risk involved and they did not know for sure if it was safe or not. Travis the tour guide and Lesperance his assistance brought Eckels and two other hunters billings and Kramer into the time machine and they set of to another world way way old from the time they were in. Kramer made rules to only kill the dinosaurs that they were after and stay on path so they could get lost Eckels was curious why they had to stay on path and it was because it could have had an impact on changing the future. According to the text it says, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ is ‘fear breeds tyranny’, it is nevertheless significant that it is not Eckels’ willfulness that leads to his chaotic destruction, but his blind panic.

In conclusion, this show how you should never underestimate the power of going back in time. You should always be care not to scr. ew up things when you go back in time.