Theme Of The Veldt

Everybody has an addiction to something, possibly to drugs, sports, work, or even technology. In today’s world, a lot of people are addicted to technology spending hours on social media every day and their lives are consumed by it. In the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, two young siblings are addicted to a room that projects whatever they think of onto the walls and in the story “The Fallout” by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, a father is obsessed with using technology to create reverse aging. Both of these stories may seem very different however they share a common theme showing us that too much of something is a bad thing. A similar theme in both stories is that too much of something is a bad thing. In “The Veldt” The family we follow in the story has a house that is completely run by technology, the …show more content…
When the parents realize that the children are starting to have physiological from the parent's lack of control and the amount they have, the parents attempt to turn off all of the technology in-house however, they fail. The parents fail because the children use the nursery to imagine lions and said lions, kill them and the technology in the house remains on. This is a perfect example of my theme because from the overuse of technology the children kill their own parents and have psychological problems from how much time they spent on it. In “The Fallout” the theme is shown again when the father uses technology to attempt to reverse aging in human beings. He is successful with a few of his subjects, however, most of the scientists he tests on are turned into fetuses from reversing