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The Veldt And The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

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“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master”(Christian lous Lange). Technology can help with many things ranging from finding ideas for an assigned projects in school to perhaps help pay your taxes and bills for your home. Although technology can be used for the greater good it is also a risky step you can take, becoming addicted can be very damaging to your social skills and can imaginably change your attitude. In the story The Veldt and The pedestrian both written by Ray Bradbury reveal the evil that comes with technology. In both stories Bradbury exemplifies how technology addiction enables people to become a lot more lazy and also the negative effects it has on people's attitudes.
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To start with, in the short story The Pedestrian, Bradbury positions the time in 2053, were because of technology, crime has stopped and they only left one cop car on duty to patrol an entire city of three million.. Technology is so overused that it makes people seem like “grey phantoms” from the outrageous amounts of time they spend on it (Bradbury). Their life depends on their viewing screens and over time makes them go crazy in a weird way. Rather than going outside hanging out with friends and forming new relationships they become alienated from the rest of the word. Similarly, Ray Bradbury’s short story The Veldt conveys how technology builds negativity in oneself. For one of the first times Mr. and Mrs. Hadley turned off the nursery so their children could experience the real and open world. The children, both Peter and Wendy went insane and wished their parents “were dead” (Bradbury). Shortly after when Mr. and Mrs. Hadley came down into the nursery looking for both their children, Peter “locked [the nursery] from the outside” and unknowingly let the vast African grasslands eat them alive (bradbury). In other words, When turning off the nursery Peter, who was extremely dependant on the nursery, became so bitter and selfish that he did whatever he can do to help the nursery keep nourishing him. That faith he had towards technology lead him into unintentionally

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