ipl-logo

The Veldt The Children's Story Analysis

921 Words4 Pages

“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 …show more content…

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

Show More
Related
293 Words | 2 Pages

The filmmaker is very emotional about their thoughts and feelings how public schools should be. The purpose is to have the audience feel sympothy or (sadness) for the kids going to failing public schools and not receiving a good education. Teachers aren´t doing their jobs efficently they don´t achieve the maxium curriculum they are required to reach at the end of the school year. The film maker’s attitude is furious he or she believes that in order to have good public schools; the teacher’s

Read More
162 Words | 1 Pages

“The Veldt” is a unique and universal short story by Ray Bradbury. This story’s universal theme is family because there are many family conflicts in the story. “The Veldt” is unique because of the way technology is portrayed and how much power that technology has over the family. In “The Veldt” the universal theme is family because there are many family conflicts in the story.

Read More
651 Words | 3 Pages

The movie, The Village, and the novel 1984 provides new insight and connections on a “utopian” society. Both are very similar to each other in a way that their utopian society has many flaws. 1984 is about a rebellion against an iron-fisted totalitarian government while The Village is about an attempt to protect the innocence of people. In these societies, the leaders lie in order to try and achieve a utopian world. Both societies have different purposes to control the people through fear, but despite their attempts to create a utopian society, they were only successful to a certain extent.

Read More
505 Words | 3 Pages

Her teach mistakes her asking classmate for help with a math problem for insubordinate behavior. The main symbol is the “monumental desk” of the teacher (Kenyon, 9). It gives the image of a throne as if it the divine right of a teacher to have absolute authority over classroom. The education system control our childhood starts to emerge as the underlying theme. The author remembers the image of the “furnace closet” where only the worst boys were put and how “the warmth, the gloom, the smell/of sweeping compound clinging to the broom/soothed” (Kenyon, 13, 16-18).

Read More
1056 Words | 5 Pages

“That school was my life”, (pg. 164), these were some of the first words muttered by William Hundert, a dedicated history teacher at St. Benedict’s school for boys. Being the narrator in Ethan Canin’s short story “The Palace Thief”, he begins to depict himself as a nobleman, who has a strict code of morals, and always follows the “Cardinal rules of teaching” (pg. ), however his willingness to not stray from these strict personal rules is soon going to be tested by an unlikely source. Sedgewick Bell, a new student at St. Benedicts, is the one who will test these morals Hundert has set for himself. The more interaction these two have, the more Hundert begins to lose these morals he set forth for himself, and the more it begins to change him for

Read More
344 Words | 2 Pages

A Child Called It Every year more than 2.9 million cases of child abuse are reported said “Safe Horizon”. Most kids go home to a loving family that loves and cares for each other. But unfortunately this is not what David Pelzer the main character of “A Child Called It”, comes home to. David goes through a life changing experience in this book, and yet he teaches us a very valuable lesson: Always stick up for ourselves and never stop fighting. For example, when 9 year old David had a punishment of cleaning the bathroom for being a “bad boy” she said “You have 30 mins to clean”.

Read More
1436 Words | 6 Pages

The story “The Passing of Grandison” by Charles W. Chesnutt shows how trust and deception can coincide, resist, and create power, which can all be manipulated by someone and shape other people's mentality to get what they want. Foremost, trust and deception play key roles in this story. Deception leads everyone to think the opposite

Read More
610 Words | 3 Pages

“The Veldt” is a short story by Ray Bradbury. This story can be analyzed using a Marxist and psychoanalytical perspective. For both of these perspectives, the main evidence is found in the kids and their relationship with their parents. For Marxist, “The Veldt” shows how the family relationship reveals the oppression of the lower class and their battle to become the new upper class. The structure of power in this can be connected to the power struggle of today’s society.

Read More
1005 Words | 5 Pages

As a fourth grader, Tommy’s morals and ethics are not fully developed, but readers can see that he values excitement and variety, which Miss Ferenczi provides. He defends her stories as fact in hopes that they are true and that the world is as fantastic as she makes it seem. He makes statements such as, “I had liked her. She was strange” (Baxter 138). The other fourth graders also enjoy Miss Ferenczi’s stories, which is seen through the way they pay very close attention to her.

Read More
768 Words | 4 Pages

Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” teaches readers that people are scared of change. In the short story, the parents feel like they have no use as a result of the Happylife Home taking care of the children by itself without the need for their parents. The parents dislike the change of not having to care for their own children, which causes them to feel useless. Although, some disagree and say that the main theme of the story is abandonment. The children were abandoned by their parents and nursery.

Read More
969 Words | 4 Pages

Bradbury believes that technology is a benefactor when it comes to the aid of people’s lives. However, Bradbury is also wary of the unintentional hazards technological innovation may cause, and fears technology that seems to replace human responsibility. Bradbury sums up his doubts, stating that technology should never come at the expense of human life. These ideologies are displayed throughout the following short stories: “The Veldt,” “There Will Come Soft Rains,” and “A Sound of Thunder.” Each story contains the underlying theme that technology must be wielded with great care.

Read More
837 Words | 4 Pages

In the novel, we see how the characters' obsessions with wealth, the past, status, and each other can lead to devastating behavior, unhappiness and damaged relationships. This novel was written around the time of “The American Dream”, which is the belief that anyone

Read More
820 Words | 4 Pages

It portrays the 1917 Russian Revolution atmosphere with the replacement of Russia into Animal Farm. The characters also did not fail to resemble the real people involved in the revolution. Power leads to greed, used to take advantage and manipulate. A person with absolute power tends to choose greediness after a certain time period, despite having followed a wise person’s vision and

Read More
1096 Words | 5 Pages

Every person has the right to be and feel free. They have the right to be independent and live happily. Kate Chopin’s, “The Story of an Hour,” focuses on sixty minutes in the life of a young Mrs. Mallard. Upon learning of her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard experiences a revelation about her future without a husband. Her life, due to heart problems, suddenly ends after she unexpectedly finds out her husband is actually alive.

Read More
908 Words | 4 Pages

Overall, this story shows that even if you have money and success you may not necessarily have everything you need to have your American dream because everyone needs human interaction and love to be happy. In comparison, in The Boys’ Ambition, success seems like the only important thing in obtaining the American dream and that happiness doesn’t really play a role (Twain

Read More

More about The Veldt The Children's Story Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document