Can you imagine being stuck in a world where machines do everything for you? For a while it’s a dream, but after a short amount of time it would become a nightmare. In the book “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, having a machine brushing your hair and tying your shoes is normal. It would be weird to have to do easy everyday tasks on your own without a machine helping you or even doing it for you. In this book the parents of the children threaten to turn off all the machines in their house, or they threaten to turn off the house, because the kids are abusing the use of their room the nursery. The kids get mad and throw a tantrum. They end up locking their parents in one of the rooms called the nursery where the kids think and it goes on the walls.
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The kids have a room they call “the nursery”. It’s where when the kids think of something it appears on the walls of the nursery. The author, Ray Bradbury, used the word soft to describe lights turning on and off. He says “lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity.” He used that line to show that the lights have advanced so much that they go on and off with soft automaticity. The technology is taking over their lives because it’s a normal house and family and they have automatic lights. Most homes nowadays don’t have automatic lights. Another part in the story that shows the claim is at the end. The kids trick their innocent parents into going into the nursery room and they think in their heads of lions eating them or eating something. The lions appear to be real and end up eating the parents. Here is where it happens in the story, “The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats. The lions.” This line shows that the parents are being surrounded by lions and are …show more content…
When the father threatened to turn off the technology, Peter suddenly turned rude towards his father. Also when the nursery was actually turned off the kids both threw tantrums. In the text before that, it said "Hello, Mom. Hello, Dad." The Hadleys turned. Wendy and Peter were coming in the front door, cheeks like peppermint candy, eyes like bright blue agate marbles, a smell of ozone on their jumpers from their trip in the helicopter. "You're just in time for supper," said both parents. "We're full of strawberry ice cream and hot dogs," said the children, holding hands. "But we'll sit and watch.". This shows that the kids are sweet until they find out about the nursery being turned off. Thier technology is running their life because once their technology is taken away they aren’t sweet anymore. You don’t want this to happen to you do
The kids have a room they call “the nursery”. It’s where when the kids think of something it appears on the walls of the nursery. The author, Ray Bradbury, used the word soft to describe lights turning on and off. He says “lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity.” He used that line to show that the lights have advanced so much that they go on and off with soft automaticity. The technology is taking over their lives because it’s a normal house and family and they have automatic lights. Most homes nowadays don’t have automatic lights. Another part in the story that shows the claim is at the end. The kids trick their innocent parents into going into the nursery room and they think in their heads of lions eating them or eating something. The lions appear to be real and end up eating the parents. Here is where it happens in the story, “The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats. The lions.” This line shows that the parents are being surrounded by lions and are …show more content…
When the father threatened to turn off the technology, Peter suddenly turned rude towards his father. Also when the nursery was actually turned off the kids both threw tantrums. In the text before that, it said "Hello, Mom. Hello, Dad." The Hadleys turned. Wendy and Peter were coming in the front door, cheeks like peppermint candy, eyes like bright blue agate marbles, a smell of ozone on their jumpers from their trip in the helicopter. "You're just in time for supper," said both parents. "We're full of strawberry ice cream and hot dogs," said the children, holding hands. "But we'll sit and watch.". This shows that the kids are sweet until they find out about the nursery being turned off. Thier technology is running their life because once their technology is taken away they aren’t sweet anymore. You don’t want this to happen to you do