The Themes In Ray Hudbury's The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

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You’ve brought two children into the world that you adore so much, you want the best for them, and get them many things to advance and entertain themselves. All for them.....and when you think it may be good to take a short break, a vacation, from electronics. Your beloved children go hysterical. They holler you down into the special play room, which costed a fortune! But it’s for your children, who’d you do anything for. When you arrive to the room, no one is there besides you. Your children who are outside of the room listen to your terrorizing screams and lock the door. While you turn around to find yourself in the middle of a feast, with you being the main dish to hungry, furious, aggravated lions. This is what take place in Ray Bradbury’s …show more content…

This concept is very important because everyday in our world, people are advancing our technology and we buy those new technology implants. We now become very greedy of these highly advanced objects and protect them. We imagine that those objects are everything, and we will do anything. So if something ever happens to those objects, anger infuriates us and we further have no control over what we do. Hence, it’s crucial that we be aware of the possible dangers that becoming too addicted to things that greed will be created, resulting in terrible actions. Nevertheless, we also have the convenience to prevent ourselves from addiction to these objects and find better ways to spend our time. Or else, as Bradbury hinted at, we will turn into addicted monsters and the world will just plummet down. Imagine on the news, a regular tragedy.....”Another incident with an addicted human to their personal belongings after getting that item taken away by their parentals. Catastrophic outburst with the human killing both of their parentals in order to get their personal item

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