My gran is my hero. she is brilliant. she loves to read. she is easily bored. as a young girl, she struggled a great deal. she left home at 21. she moved to the west coast. there, she chose to educate herself. she chose studies over security. she lived in poverty for many years. she eventually got a job teaching at university. she married late in life. she had a beautiful family. she never stopped learning. she died with a burning curiosity about life. now, think about the effect of the sentence structure you see here. answer the questions below: how does this paragraph flow? what kind of rhythm does this paragraph have? which ideas are highlighted as most important? least? how do you know? are ideas well connected to one another? can you tell what the relationship is between sentences? how would you improve this paragraph? rewrite the paragraph above. see if you can reorganize and restructure the sentences in a better

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.