Answer: C. Brutus must decide whether to help in the plot to kill Caesar.
In this excerpt, Brutus is deciding whether to help in the plot to kill Caesar. On the one hand, Brutus argues that he likes Caesar, and that he believes him to be competent and responsible. He has never seen him be unreasonable. On the other hand, Caesar wants more power, and this power could corrupt him and turn him into a tyrant. He concludes that it is better to get rid of Caesar before he gets more power and begins to cause harm to Rome.
In “A Sound of Thunder,” Eckels dies because, Travis shoots him for disrupting history.
Answer: Option A.
Explanation:
‘A Sound of Thunder’ is a science fiction novel written by Ray Bradbury which depicts how in future time travel becomes a reality and the effects such advancement can have on human beings.
In the novel, Eckels is a hunter who travels 60 million years back in time to hunt a Theropod Dinosaur. Before he travels back in time, Eckels was strictly told by Travis to follow all the rules and no action should cause any change in the past.
But unfortunately, Eckels killed a buttery from an ancient forest by stepping on it. This further lead to a ripple effect because of which everything in the present was set in motion, and that was the time when Travis shoots Eckels in the office itself.
