The Veldt The Children's Story Analysis

“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will,” according to the poet, John Allston (Midday Motivation). He explains that putting trust in a stranger is one of the most common ways in which a utopia is corrupted. Trust is a part of daily lives, so it is not surprising that the concept of trust is a key notion in stories. In the stories The Veldt and The Children’s Story, the authors Bradbury and Clavell, use trust to corrupt someone's utopia and create another's. The ideas of utopia are deepened through the comparisons and contrasts of other symbols and messages in the stories. Similarities and differences are shown in the texts The Veldt and The Children’s Story that represent the different ways utopia can be created and corrupted through

In this story, a classroom is introduced to a new teacher they have never met before. A boy named Johnny in this class feels hatred towards the new teacher because he thinks she is from a government that won a recent war. The government creates a utopia for themselves while corrupting the students utopias. On the other hand, The Veldt shows how the children corrupt their parents utopia by choosing technology over them. The teacher notices that the children are in a state of shock, so over a short period of time she earns the trust of all the children. Bribery works to make the government’s utopia come true when the teacher lets the students throw a flagpole out the window. The text says, “The children pondered what to do with it, and the idea that pleased them most was to push it out the window. They watched excitedly as the New Teacher opened the window and allowed them to throw it into the playground.” (Clavell 3) The trust of the children is slowly taken by the bribery the new teacher shows. In comparison, the parents in The Veldt at first give the children all the technology they want, but when the effects occur, it is immediately taken away. Also, utopia is seen similarly through manipulation. The new teacher passes out candy, and tells the truth of where it came from. This changes Johnny’s mind as it says in the text, “Johnny was very