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    televisions sets at night. During this particular day in November he takes in his surroundings of the city. The direction he walks doesn’t matter. Bradbury gives a warning of what the future might look like when technology shapes and conforms a whole society. A television-centered society controlling people’s lives and the way they interact. Bradbury shows a world where television has replaced reality in the future. He describes the silent neighborhoods as, “cottages and homes with their dark windows

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    The Veldt Analysis

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    As technology is advancing, it is ruining our reputations and everyday lives because we use it too much. “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury is a story of parents who use too much technology to spoil their two kids which rely on technology and use it to kill their own parents. The Atlantic is an article on how technology has changed the concept of the community and how it affects people’s daily lives in mostly negative ways. In both sources, humans rely on technology too much, having a negative effect.

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    In The Veldt, Ray Bradbury uses both symbolism and similes to show the power of one’s imagination. The house, nursery and lions are examples of symbolism used. Ray Bradbury also uses similes to compare things we know today to add feeling and thought to the story. Some might argue that descriptive language is used to embody authority over others. The power of one's imagination is shown throughout this story, is about how a perfect life, isn’t always the best. Throughout the story, symbolism is used

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    be truly happy one would need to have the coolest and newest of everything. Ray Bradbury contradicts that theory in his short story “The Veldt”. Bradbury proves that while one might feel happy or satisfied for a small period of time after they get something, having everything the heart desires actually causes the opposite effect. People get so caught up in material possessions they forget about what really matters. Bradbury further proves the above descriptions by showing the consequences that will

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    Have you ever felt that you’ve hurt someone by accident when you are having the time of your life? Bradbury gives us many examples of this in his book Fahrenheit 451. The meaning of the book is that too much entertainment is not good. One reason for why Bradbury showed being caught up in entertainment is bad, is that people don’t care about each other. For example, in the book it says “yes” said Millie. “Let old Pete do the worrying” “It’s always someone else’s husband die, they say”, this quote

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    Can you imagine a world where love is a swear word? Well Ray Bradbury did just that in writing Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury predicted innovative ideas that continue to be developed sixty five years since originally being published. While predicting earbuds was remarkable, what is truly breathtaking was the proposed danger of a disconnected society in the future. Mankind attempting to eliminate connections to people, knowledge, and the beautiful god given details appear to be a threat that we are refusing

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    The Veldt Analysis

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    The parents in "The Veldt" are responsible for their own deaths because they allowed the kids to get addicted to technology. Technology addiction is so bad that on astermedcity.com it says that technology can affect the brain's frontal cortex as much as cocaine. This means that Peter and Wendy were using something as harmful as a level 2 drug. Furthermore on cnn.com it states that once kids get above the age of six parents should put a limit on their children’s amount of technology usage based on

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    says that money is the root of all evil. Although Ray Bradbury wouldn’t fully agree that money is the root of all evil, he does think materialistic possessions can be harmful when used in excess. He writes in “The Veldt” about two spoiled who see only value than the harm that is being caused through their materialistic lives. Ray Bradbury uses allusion, foreshadowing, and setting to show the harms of relying on materialistic possessions. Ray Bradbury uses an allusion to a well-known story, Peter Pan

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    you kill your parents . I have read two pieces of literature, “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury and “Look Up” by Gary Turk. In both pieces of work, the authors explored how technology when not used properly can have devastating consequences. In this essay, I will analyze the theme for both the short story and poem, and discuss which one does a better job at showing us how technology can ruin our lives. In “The Veldt,” Bradbury uses foreshadowing to show that when technology is used incorrectly or to much

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    Ray Bradbury's Analysis

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    Ray Bradbury warns us of the devastating effects technology held for human beings and society. As progress of science and technology rapidly grew, Ray Bradbury was in complete admiration of these advances of sprouting industrial science. Growing up in the mid-1900s, Bradbury witnesses the production of new telephones, television, radio and more. Technology is invading our personal and professional lives. Such advancements also played with the curiosity of hidden human ability to create new technologies

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