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Technology In Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

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Technology is a helpful thing to have.Technology has modernized life in many ways.With this comes many moral issues.Technology has many benefits and dtriments as displayed in Ray Bradbury's short story ¨The Veldt¨ and in modern-day technology like polygraph machines. As illustrated in Ray Bradbury's short story “The Veldt,” the Hadley’s purchased a ¨HappyLife Home.¨This house was fully automated with things like machines that tie shoes, lights that turn on when the family walk through and a nursery that could be used to illustrate anything some one could think of (Bradbury). With all these features, this house was supposed to give the family members more time to spend together and take away the mindless tasks many people hate doing. Another …show more content…

This is illustrated by Peter Hadley’s quote, “That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?” (Bradbury)This quote shows that the Hadley family has become so dependent on these devices in their home that they would not know how to survive without them. Ultimately, the biggest detriment is that the kids used the technology that was supposed to help them to kill their parents in the end. Thus, this alone shows the many negative things this “Happylife Home” causes to the …show more content…

Criminal investigators can use a polygraph machine to ask people for details about a crime that only a person that was there or had committed it would know.Furthermore, a polygraph machine can be used for job screenings. Cops can also use a polygraph to force confusion out of people as demonstrated in this quote “often as part of a criminal investigation. A little known trick of interrogators when administering a polygraph is to convince the person undergoing the examination that the lie detector has shown results that do not bode well for the subject, and that he or she should simply come

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Ray Bradbury focused on multiple craft moves throughout the dystopian story The Veldt. The Veldt is about a super rich family named the Hadley's that has machines that do absolutely everything for them. One of their rooms in their house is what they call a nursery. This nursery comes to life basically it is some sort of time machine where it can show you anywhere you want.

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The Veldt: Craft Moves Ray Bradbury, the author of the dystopian story “The Veldt” applies many craft moves throughout his story. Some craft moves he includes is dialogue, foreshadowing, metaphors, and similes to build up the imagery in his story. The imagery he uses in the story helps the reader understand what the setting is like and what the story is trying to tell you. “The veldt” is in a totally different setting than the reader’s world. It seems to be set in the future, with all the technology the main character’s family have.

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Scientists, doctors, psychologists, and many others believe that technology has become a major distraction and danger to many, if not all, people. This can be seen in the story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury where the highly advanced technology becomes the children’s soul focus and importance causing them to lose sight of what really matters. In “The Veldt,” George and Lydia, the parents of Wendy and Peter, become concerned when the nursery, a technologically advanced room, continues to play a scene of lions killing their prey. While the nursery was meant to be a helpful tool for the children, it turned into a way for the kids to channel negative thoughts. This prompts George and Lydia to contemplate whether or not to shut down the nursery.

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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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Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor Greg Laurie explained to his congregation what the Bible teaches about the Holy Spirit, who came down to Earth to guide Christians and help them make decisions that will please God. In a message titled “The Holy Spirit and You,” Pastor Laurie explained that the Holy Spirit completes the divine trinity together with God the Father and God the Son. The California megachurch leader also said a person can grieve the Holy Spirit, just as one can grieve a close friend, The Christian Post relayed.

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I would have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tire, do it?” (Bradbury 1951) when George bought the house it was built with technology that did everything for you. The children don’t know how to live without it as it does everything, they want such as make food for them, tie their shoes, and do their laundry. Finally, the Hadley family slowly start to lose their minds as the kids become obsessed with the nursery, which leads to the downfall of their family. “They screamed and pants and through things they yelled and solved and swore and jumped at the furniture” mentioned Ray Bradbury.

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Bradbury uses the actions of his characters and personification to show that, strangely, enough, technology can cause more problems than thought. The root of the problem points right to the flawed actions of the characters. George Hadley just wants the best for his family. That’s all he wants.

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Effects of Technology Technological advancements has helped guide this world into many different directions. Technology has helped simplify life, it has changed how we communicate and it has solved many of the worlds problems. Many publications about the cloning of monkeys and “The Veldt” written by Ray Bradbury both prove that technology can have many detriments and benefits to our world. Technology in the well-known science fiction “The Veldt” was intended to be beneficial. In the Happylife Home the technology enabled the Hadleys to have time to themselves.

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For my first piece of evidence, technology helps us in many ways, from travel, to seeing stars. In the text, “is Google making us stupid” It directly states “Just as a car allows us to move faster and a telescope lets us see farther, access to the Internet lets us think better and faster.” With complete certainty, these technologies impact and improve our lives, some better or worse. It is true that technology like guns and harmful devices exist, but they are overshadowed by the amount of good these electronics bring to the world.

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Despite this, the police still use them, as they do with Tommy Ward, when he goes to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) to prove to the law enforcement agents that he had nothing to do with Denice Haraway. Ward takes the test, but the results of the polygraph are never revealed. The agent (WHO???) tells Tommy that he failed the test, and whether or not this is true, the results mean nothing. If it were true that Tommy failed the test, it would not mean he had a hand in the crime; his failure could be attributed to the 40% error rate of polygraphs (Dowler, n.d.).

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The children become so attached to the Happylife Home that they feel entitled to it and resort to manipulation when their parents try to take it away. The children attempt to manipulate their parents by stating: "Oh, I hate you" (372) This shows how the children have become entitled to the technology and are willing to exploit their parent’s emotions to keep it. The technology creates a sense of detachment from reality, leading to a lack of empathy and understanding. Virtual reality became a source of addiction that the children grasp onto inorder to feel the happiness that their parents do not give them. One of the ways in which Bradbury highlights the dangers of technology as a catalyst for violence is through the

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They instead have “a tendency toward a slight paranoia here or there, usual in children because they feel persecuted by parents constantly” (Bradbury 7). The theme of death is a driving force throughout the story that exemplifies how technology can cause a tendency toward violence. There is a feeling deep inside the characters, especially the wife and husband, who realize that the way the children behave is not right. The wife, Lydia Hadley, helps her husband begin to see how negatively affected the children have become as a result of technology. It now does everything and “is wife and mother now, and nursemaid”

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The kid’s attachment to the nursery is the main conflict. Technology can create attachment and many dangers to users without restriction. They all share the same conflict in the story and the parents are the ones that want to get rid of the conflict and the kids do not agree. Bradbury includes the quote, “If children are neurotic at all, a room like that —” “It’s supposed to help them work off their neuroses in a healthful way.” (Bradbury 7)

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“Technology can be a useful servant but a dangerous master”(Lange). New and advanced technology is seen as beneficial for society but how come the dangers are never talked about? Relatively helpful technology, such as cars, phones, and even AI are all capable of harming individuals. Steven Pinkers “Mind over Mass Media” talks about how technology can be a useful tool for society however , it can also become distracting and addictive.

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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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