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Ray Bradbury's Use Of Language Techniques In The Veldt

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Ray Bradbury focused on multiple craft moves throughout this dystopian short story, “The Veldt”, to ameliorate it and make it more exciting. Some examples of craft moves that Ray Bradbury continues to use throughout the passage is personification, suspense, descriptive language, dialogue, and imagery. Bradbury uses all of these craft moves to emphasize that too much technology is bad and it can ruin your lives. The Hadleys gave their children a room that could turn into anything you could imagine. The kids thought of lions and Africa and the technology in the story killed the parents, and the worst part is the kids did it on purpose. The craft moves also help the reader get a better understanding of the story. I definitely was more intrigued. …show more content…

Suspense helps the reader really want to know what happens next, and they become entertained and intrigued. An example in the story of this craft move is when it directly states, “And suddenly they realized why those screams sounded so familiar. (Bradbury 10). This was, in my opinion, the best sentence in the story. It made me want to read more. The craft move of suspense helped it be the best sentence in the story because the readers were engaged and couldn’t wait to find out what was going to happen next. It may be the most useful craft move there is, and Bradbury portrays it very well. It shows that technology could ruin their lives, and anyone …show more content…

It makes the readers want to read more and feel happy and satisfied. Bradbury has many different parts in the story where he uses imagery, but the best example that pops into my head is when it states, “The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water.” (Bradbury 1). This writing helps the reader get a better understanding of what is happening because they paint a picture in their head. This writing by Ray Bradbury appeals to the reader’s senses by using imagery very well in his short

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"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury describes the events of the Hadleys, a family living in a completely automated house. The children of George and Lydia, Peter and Wendy, take an interest in the "nursery", a room designed to reproduce any place they imagine. While the children spend so much time in the nursery, the parents reflect about how much they don 't do as parents--the house does everything for them. George reflects on his parenting by having an exchange with his wife, clearly stating his remorse for buying the nursery room. "

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Transported into the future, Ray Bradbury paints a picture in the reader’s head of the Happy Life Home, filled with technology to fit everyday needs. A family, mom, dad, and two kids, start to slowly fall apart because of being surrounded with technology. In The Veldt, Bradbury uses multiple examples of author’s craft such as personification and tone or mood to help prove and point out a theme included in his story. His theme contained in the story is, influencing children with so much technology early on can not only stir up violent thoughts but, can also cause breaks between friend and family relationships. The first author’s craft that can prove this theme to be true is personification.

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Two pieces by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and The Veldt, both share the theme that society and technology shouldn’t affect the actions people take, however, this theme is portrayed differently in each novel. To start, The Veldt leads to the theme that society shouldn’t affect the actions people take, but it conveys this theme differently than in the novel Fahrenheit 451 because, in The Veldt, the mom and dad are very ignorant of the problem that is occurring. On page 27, the parents are told by a psychologist that the technology in their house is ruining their children. “In this case, however, the room has become a channel toward destructive thoughts, instead of a release away from them.”

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In The Veldt created by the one and only Ray Bradbury, he uses multiple examples of author’s craft such as personification and tone or mood. These crafts were written into the story to help prove and point out the theme of influencing children with so much technology early on can not only stir up violent thoughts but, can also cause breaks between friend and family relationships. The first author’s craft that can prove this theme to be true is personification. One example is, “the walls began to purr and recede.” Although walls can not do this, Ray Bradbury uses it in his story to show how much technology the family living in the Happy Home have given to their children.

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People can be good at many things, and sometimes they are the best at those things. I believe that Ray Bradbury, focused on multiple craft moves in The Veldt such as dialogue, personification, and flashbacks to show that he can be one of the best, when it comes to adding craft moves into his writing. He made the writing more interesting and described and showed the moments in different ways. He also used many different craft moves throughout the story, but I think that these three, dialogue, personification, and flashbacks are the most important, and I believe that without these craft moves the story wouldn’t have as big of an impact on the reader as it did with them. Ray Bradbury used dialogue to show how the characters are feeling at that exact moment, and is shown throughout the story to show interactions between characters in that moment in time.

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In the short story “The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, the author uses figurative language for characterization. Set on a main character's’ house in an unspecified future, the story tells how overuse of electronic machines can take over the place of parents and how it can affect the children’s attitudes. In the beginning of the story, Bradbury suggests the quality of the nursery room when he writes “smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air” and “the papery rustling of vultures.” (Bradbury 1) From this imagery writing, Bradbury led the readers to picture the level of realness of the nursery room. Next, Bradbury used allusion to characterize children in a way for readers to understand their attitudes easier by naming the children “Wendy and

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The Veldt a dystopian story by Ray Bradbury is about a nursery, the parents of Lydia, and George Hadley bought for them to enjoy and so they could go on adventures, and embrace the significance of traveling in a time machine. But does the nursery begin to be too much for the kid's? Will the parents soon realize what they’ve done? Lydia and George really love the nursery, but near the end of the story they start to love the nursery too much that the nursery too them becomes more than just a nursery. The craft moves that I will be using will answer lots of questions the reader may have, and will help the reader understand what’s going on in the text.

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Ray Bradbury uses several craft moves throughout his dystopian story names ‘The Veldt’. Using imagery, foreshadowing, and irony; Ray Bradbury enriches the story with these varying craft moves. Each is used to place the setting and feel of the story in the readers’ minds. Imagery is a craft move that was used to detail important areas in the story and help sell the scene Bradbury is creating to the reader. This is used to build a mood; one in particular is suspense.

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Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt” teaches readers that too much technology can have a bad effect on people. In the story, the Hadley family lives in a Happylife Home which has machines that do pretty much everything for them. The machines make their meals, brush their teeth and tie their shoelaces. There is even a nursery for the children that creates any world they could imagine. In the end of the story, the nursery and the family take a turn for the worse.

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Imagery can be so beautiful and vivid, it really engulfs you into the reading. It holds significance because we as humans like for things to be drawn out for us or painted out. Creating a narrative that's easy to understand, of course no one wants a story that's filled with misconception. Imagery provides a deeper connection with the deeper and takes the reader back to a time or a place just like repetition.

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