Technology Addiction In The Veldt By Ray Bradway

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The Veldt by Ray Bradway
The children, Wendy and Peter, are at fault for their parent’s deaths. This goes to what does technology addiction lead to? Some people say it leads to bad consequences and other say it can lead to accomplishing things. But what really does technology addiction really lead to. The three questions I am going to answer are does technology use lead to violent behavior, how much screen time should kids have, and are there any benefits to technology. The first question is does technology use lead to violent behavior? the reason is that if a kid is have too much screen time and the parents take it away they will have a big fight and start to use violence to get their game system back. A article “The Telegraph”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/t/video-games/9593188/Violent-video-games-make-teenagers-more-aggressive-study-finds.html
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A reason that they killed their parents is early in the beginning of the story, we see (the problem) begin to develop when the parents realize that the kids have messed with the nursery when it was at Africa and switch to the forest the when the kids got won’t let them in the nursery and close it since they thought it was not working right.”There was a green, lovely forest, a lovely river, a purple mountain, high voices singing, and Rima, lovely and mysterious, lurking in the trees with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair. The African veldtland was gone.” This explains that the nursery is not broken but has been missed with by Wendy and Peter because of their …show more content…
Mr. and Mrs. George Hadley beat at the door. "Now, don't be ridiculous, children. It's time to go. Mr. Mclean'll be here in a minute and..." And then they heard the sounds. The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats,” showing that they were to addicted to the technology of the nursery. Also the

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