films, and/or the theme(s) from this unit. Choose some aspect to focus on and to explore further, such as symbols, characters, themes, or setting. I recommend using the discussion guide questions to help you come up with a topic. You may want to take one of the questions and turn the answer into your essay’s thesis or main idea. Then you would need to elaborate upon your idea further in order to turn your answer into an essay-length response. You may also choose from one of the following essay prompts:
1) Why do you think there have been so many dystopian and/or post-apocalyptic narratives in our culture in the past few years? Feel free to use either the examples from this unit and/or other narrative examples to support your ideas, such as The Hunger Games, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Walking Dead, or Bird Box.

2) Discuss the idea of “the butterfly effect,” also known as chaos theory, as it is presented in “A Sound of Thunder”. You may also include any other narratives in your analysis that address this particular sci-fi phenomenon, such as the films Looper, Donnie Darko, or Back to the Future