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Hello people,

I have a school project, and one of the questions is: What does Ray Bradbury want with his story "A Sound Like Thunder"? What is his achievement?

Does Mr. Bradbury maybe have an email which I can ask him this questions and others?

Greetings from

Alexander Bech

[This message has been edited by CallMeBOBO (edited 05-28-2003).]


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I'm not sure what you mean by "what he wants". I'm not sure Bradbury has the time to respond to individual school projects.

I think he seemed to accomplish at least two things with the story:

(1) He did a great job entertaining people -- which, after all, is one of the storyteller's main functions. The story is really entertaining.

(2) If there is a moral in there, it seems to me that it says that the things we choose to do in our lives have impact in ways that we are often unable to foresee.


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Mr. Dark,

Bravo on your reply. The storyteller's prime objective should be to entertain. All the rest of it is gravy. (And, if he's a particularly fine and artistic writer, like Ray, there's lotsa gravy!)

Pete
 
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