Science fiction is fiction based on future scientific or technological advances and social or environmental changes, frequently space or time travel and life on other planets. Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man has a common theme throughout the stories. The theme throughout the stories are modern technology and advances and how it can control people’s minds and relationships. The summary of the chapters in this book The Illustrated Man is how technology effects people’s lives and relationships in a negative way. In the chapters of the book The Illustrated Man shows how technology has a negative effect on people’s lives. The story The Veldt is about The Hadley Family and their nursery. Their nursery is a lot different than any other ordinary nursery. Their nursery could take you …show more content…
In this case the Hadley children would think of scary places like being in Africa with lions and other animals. The conflict in this story is parents against children for example the children were responsible for their actions in the nursery. The parents were not responsible for their actions in the nursery because the parents did not have control of the children’s minds. The parents would also hear scary noises and when they would ask their children they would tell them it is not truth. In this story The Veldt technology fails to make human life better by ruining lives and relationships. In this story it shows how technology has now taken the role of the parents and how the children do whatever they want now which ruined the children’s relationship with their parents. ‘’The walls were blank and two-dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and