Read this passage from H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. And invisible to me because it was so remote and small,
flying swiftly and steadily towards me across that
incredible distance, drawing nearer every minute by so
many thousands of miles, came the Thing they were
sending to us, the Thing that was to bring so much
struggle and calamity and death to the earth.
Why does Wells refer to the Martian spacecraft as "the Thing"?
A. To provide descriptive detail
B. To build tension and suspense
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C. To explain its lack of importance
D. To give readers its proper name

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.

hasty generalization