Ray Bradbury's Kindred: An Analysis

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. “’Will you turn the parlor off’ he asked. ‘That is my family.’” (Bradbury 46). In this part of the book, Mildred is captivated by the parlor walls to the point where she doesn’t want to turn it off. She thinks of the parlor as her family. Earlier in this same chapter, she even asks her husband, Montag, for a fourth wall for the parlor. Her “family” is all Mildred talks about in the book and it makes me think how involved TVs have become in our daily lives. Addictions to electronics are bad, but that’s not the only thing to worry about. With all this technology today, the world has become more impatient. The struggle of waiting one minute for the laptop to load has become unbearable to most teenagers. Due to having everything in a touch of

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