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    revealed through people’s personality and in literature‚ authors may use a character’s personality to reveals truths about human nature. As portrayed in Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe‚ human nature can be revealed through the personalities of different characters. Ray Bradbury’s‚ The Veldt uses character traits that help reveal truths about human nature. While admiring the nursery for his children‚ George Hadley expresses that‚ “nothing’s too good for our children

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    weak because the communication structure between them is non-existent. The family relies too much on their home that automatically takes care of them and their nursery that telepathically shows the children’s thought. Ray Bradbury‚ the author of “The Veldt” explains George and Lydia give no boundaries to their children that results to spoiling them such as denying letting them go to New York and the threat of turning off the nursery and the house itself forever that leads the children to dispose of them

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    are some good outcomes‚ but many negative and maybe fatal outcomes. In “The Veldt” technological control was greatly demonstrated as it shows the house taking over and results in the complete destruction of the family. Three very obvious impacts technology had in the family were the children’s homicidal tendencies being born‚ the parents were doubting themselves‚ and at last the parents’ death is inevitable. In “The Veldt”‚ as the house’s technological values showed more and more‚ the house was

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    Too Much Technology “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury is a short story about a husband and wife who buy a “Happylife Home” to do all of their daily chores. It includes a nursery that will respond to whatever a person thinks. In this short story‚ Bradbury suggests of technology is reaching a point where it is no longer helpful‚ but harmful. This theme is portrayed through Bradbury’s use of stylistic devices‚ and character. Bradbury’s style throughout his story aids in portraying his theme of technology’s

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    In both Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”‚ dialogue is used effectively in enhancing the atmosphere of the story. Although both have similar mood‚ the ways the authors present the dialogue are different‚ for in “The Veldt”‚ Bradbury includes many other setting descriptions. Whereas‚ “Hills Like White Elephants” is a story created purely with dialogue. Also‚ how the characters interact with each other is different. In “Hill’s Like White Elephants” the

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    make life more enjoyable. Along with the benefits and praise‚ new technology always comes with concerns and potential detriments. Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” and the concept of self driving cars‚ both pose questions about the benefits and risks of new technology arising in the world. Numerous technologies that are presented in Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” have obvious benefits to everyday life. Machines in the house do many of the tedious tasks that one dreads on a daily basis. These machines replace

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    In the short story “The Veldt‚” Ray Bradbury illustrates what is to come to a child without the proper guidance from their parental figures. The lack of parental guidance in the story is brought about by the machinery and technology that relieves the parents and children from daily chores and abilities that may seem tiresome‚ such as making dinner‚ cleaning the house and even tying their shoes. As they are relying on this technology‚ the parents are slowly beginning to lose their purpose as a parental

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    you then what would the point of family be? I mean you do lots of things with your family like make dinner or play games with them. If there was a house that would do this what would the point of family. That is exactly what happens in the story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. From the story Cradle Hold by David Klass a boy named Duke just joined a wrestling team and his dad would go to every match that he had. Some of Duke’s teammates

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    refer to ‘technology is the current world’. With regard to this‚ there are social concerns to the effect of the power of technology in far future in affecting the behaviour of humans. Ray Bradbury discovers this principle in his short stories of ‘The Veldt’‚ ‘Zero Hour’‚ and ‘Marionettes Inc.’. The three stories are about how the creation of humans‚ the imagination of individuals and the conception of robots outlines the concerns of technology in the future to be raised. This three short stories perfectly

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    The story of "The Veldt"‚ is an interesting story which concerns the issue of how modern technology can destroy the typical united family. In my personal opinion‚ this story has the most absolute lack of any characterization‚ and is all about how regular children can destroy‚ or even kill their whole family without any hesitation or misery. The story begins with the mother of the family‚ who has quite a generic name. We are given no information of the characters background and how they came to the

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