My Wood Ray Bradbury Analysis

There are many ways that an author can go about writing a story to convey his or her message. In the 1926 short story “My Wood”, E. M. Forster writes about the impact of materialistic things on himself. In the 1952 short story written by Ray Bradbury “The Veldt”, Bradbury describes the hold that technology has on people and how it can put people in dangerous situations. The two short stories contain a similar concept of how easy it is for one to become obsessed with inanimate objects. In both of the texts you can see, the hold that these objects carry, consequently, the lengths that people are willing to go to keep their possessions is frightening. The two texts use multiple forms of vivid imagery to create a sense of fear and shock in the reader. However, the imagery used in the stories are …show more content…
In “My Wood” Forster says that he realizes just how badly the possession of land affects him. Despite being able to see that it's wrong, he will not do anything to change; he feels as though he is too far gone to change. This is shocking to the reader because most people would assume that once you have realized the error of your ways it is an easy fix. You have to wonder what kind of hold the inanimate object know as my wood has on Forster. Why does he need so much land and what causes these desires? Forester was just a simple man who had never had as much as he now does. conversely, with this new land, his morals are easily changed and lost. In “The Veldt” the shock factor comes from the idea that the children are with executing their own parents so they could continue to play in the nursery. It is interesting to see how staring out with nothing and gaining a new possession contrary to always having the possession affects the ones thought process. As stated prior Forester can see the wrongs in his ways but the children