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xroflmao · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Describe what happens in the story. Who is speaking?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Why does the government not approve of time travel? How does TimeSafari, Inc., deal with government obstacles?

What will be an ideal response?

stanleka1 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

As the title suggests, the speaker is the wife. In the first few sentences we learn that at first she found her husband to be gentle and loving, a wonderful husband and father (anybody who saw him with the children would have known that there wasnt any bad in him, not one mean bone), but that he underwent some sort of terrible transformation, something so horrible that even now she finds it almost impossible to believe.

Answer to Question 2

Travis explains to Eckels that Time Safari, Inc., has to pay thousands of dollars to the government because a Time Ma chine is finicky business. Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species (par. 32). However, the truth that Travis confesses to Eckels is they dont definitively know what the effect is of their time travel. He even admits that their theory may be wrong: Who can really say he knows? We dont know. Were guessing. But until we do know for certain whether our messing around in Time can make a big roar or a little rustle in history, were being careful (par. 40). As a safety precaution, the company always leaves the body of the animal where it would have died originally, so the insects, birds, and bacteria can get at it, as they were intended to (par. 102).

Time Safari, Inc., also deals with government obstacles by penalizing a customer ten thousand additional dollars if he disobeys orders, either by stepping off the prescribed path or by shooting an unauthorized animal. They are so careful that they send Lesperance back to the past prior to a safari to research the life and death patterns of the animals. He then marks dead animals with red paint, so that the Time Machine arrives two minutes before the animals natural death so that the customer shoots animals who would never mate again. Before the journey, the company sterilizes its customers clothing and bodies and provides oxygen helmets so they cant introduce their bacteria into an ancient atmosphere (par. 40). Their goal is to leave everything in balance, but they fail to realize it is impossible to control the behavior of their customers.