My Essay #2

Revolt of triviality

‘A pin a day is a groat a year’; positive caution which means that trivial thing now will be tremendous later. However, ‘the butterfly effect,’ doesn’t only contain positive one, but also negative ones. This effect is same as the above; a small change in one place can result in large differences in a later stage. In the other word, when I do something small, it would come with bigger effect in the future. In Rad Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder,’ it shows the definite example of ‘the butterfly effect,’ which related to the time paradox, the theory that when you got killed from the past during the time travel, you cannot exist in the present.

Rad Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder’ is the story of going time travel to the past. The way how the effect showed was interesting. When the travelers who go to the past and make ‘stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice,’ than the above one extinct, and then also the above one extinct, finally, human will be gone. This occurs because the time where they went was sixty million years before. Killing one organism at that time will change to killing 60 million of organisms in the present. This was the first relation between the story and the effect. The other one comes at the end. In the beginning of the story, it introduces that the public idea of the country is a democracy. Eckel, the main character, brought the ‘Gold Butterfly’ from the past, and so, the present changed. They noticed the presence of strange English after they come back. Also the political idea, was changed to tyranny. The small act that he did make a huge change; changed the society.

How about in Korea? There was a positive effect which it brought. Park Jung hee was the president of South Korea. The political idea of South Korea was democracy, however, during his presidency, he ran tyranny. At that moment, the economy of Korea was striking the floor, so Park Jung hee determined to plan the economic projects. It had started with small one, as days go by, the economy has been developed and modern society of Korea is the result. Starting was small, however, the output was tremendous. This is the definite example of ‘the butterfly effect.’

In conclusion the two cases of ‘the butterfly effect’ prove that there are positive effects and negative effects. Be careful about such a trivial thing during your life.