A Second Reading

Today we continued our look at Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," doing a couple of comprehension questions in the warm-up (based on the passage below), and examining foreshadowing and sequence more closely. Some students got started on the margin questions as well. Finally, students' received their letters of introduction back and, after some reflection, these were collected to be kept in student portfolios.


"Unbelievable." Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. "A real Time Machine." He shook his head. "Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."
"Yes," said the man behind the desk. "We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now.