Power To the Butterfly (standard:other, 296 words)
Author: Girl_Anonymous	Added: Apr 30 2003	Views/Reads: 618/1	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
This is another class assignment. I suggest you read Ray Bradbury's "A Sound Of Thunder". You won't understand the story otherwise.

POWER TO THE BUTTERFLY 

"Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a
butterfly, very beautiful and very dead."-Ray Bradbury 

Time. Time is a powerful element.  One that the living may only begin to
understand.  Time isn't smooth, slow, fast nor foolish.  Time is only 
foolish as the one who uses it.  And that's precisley it.  Without the 
living, time is nothing.  Nothing, not even space. With the death of 
one butterfly, Eckles had destroyed the balance of the living and the 
time. It was a butterfly; a simple yet beautiful being. With wings of 
velvet she soared. Due to the foolishness of man she had left Time.  
She was critical to this world, to our way of life as we watch around 
us with our closed eyes. A plant was never pollinated.  It never grew.  
It never evolved into a fruit. Humans never got a chance to taste the 
sweet sour citric orange. Several chemicals in the brain were never 
formed. The destruction of balance had changed the human way of 
thinking.  Many things that were thought of as bad are presumed good.  
Their way of writing and pronunciation has changed dramaticly.  How 
they make decisions has differed.  Who thought Keith would win the 
election?  Eckles sure did.  But it was his tamperment with time that 
has caused this significant, enourmous change.  Time equals 
change;change equals time.  Any event is significant.  Whether you've 
won something grand or achieved a wonderful goal. Or you got up 10 
minutes late this morning or you had pizza for dinner.  Everything 
affects time and change.  This is what Eckles had not realized.  He 
never realized how something so innocent could be so destructive.  He 
never realized the power that lay within her.  Power to the butterfly.