You’re referring to one of the most graphic images in the story. Without Eckels's help, the time travel party has killed the T-Rex. Eckels is so disabled by his terror that he stumbled back to the machine, stepping off the path in the process. The head guide Travis is so livid with Eckels for breaking the rules that he wants to punish him severely. At first, he considers leaving him behind when they return to...
You’re referring to one of the most graphic images in the story. Without Eckels's help, the time travel party has killed the T-Rex. Eckels is so disabled by his terror that he stumbled back to the machine, stepping off the path in the process. The head guide Travis is so livid with Eckels for breaking the rules that he wants to punish him severely. At first, he considers leaving him behind when they return to the future. In a panic, Eckels offers $100,000 for his redemption. Then Travis thinks of another punishment:
Go out there. The Monster’s next to the Path. Stick your arms up to your elbows in his mouth. Then you can come back with us. . . The bullets can’t be left behind. They don’t belong in the Past; they might change anything. Here’s my knife. Dig them out!
Bradbury doesn’t make us follow Eckels and watch him perform this task. Our imaginations can do this for us. Before you know it, “He returned, shuddering, five minutes later, his arms soaked and red to the elbows.” Eckels’s hands are full of the retrieved bullets. We can only wonder (and shudder over) what he had to do to get them back.
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