https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf Theme Analysis en-us 2017-09-22 17:02:07 UTC 2023-01-23 11:04:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 19mckaigm https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190221837 Ray Bradbury uses his story "The Veldt" to communicate how dangerous technology can be when overused. Technology completely takes over their family and ruins their lives because they give the house too much power.
"You’ve let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children’s feelings. This
room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now
you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there’s hatred here. You can feel it coming out
of the sky. Feel that sun. George, you’ll have to change your life. Like too many others, you’ve built
it around creature comforts."
(Bradbury 8)]]> 2017-09-22 17:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190221837 19reyesd https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190222060 "They walked down the hall of their soundproofed HappyLife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them" (Bradbury 1).

Bradbury uses the literature device exaggeration satire to show how a simple thing like technology blows out of proportion. The house the characters made had turned into a technological monster. It does everything for them and they have no sense of how to do things on their own. The author is showing the exaggeration of technology and how much impact it's causing in the world.

]]> 2017-09-22 17:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190222060 19reposer https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190222676 "Mr. Hadley looked at his wife and they turned and looked back at the beasts edging slowly forward,
knees bent, tails in the air.
Mr. and Mrs. Hadley screamed.
And suddenly they realized why those other screams had sounded familiar." (Bradbury 10)

The lions along with their bloody belongings (parents' wallet and scarf) they found in the room were a symbol of technology "consuming" their lives. They tried to take time away and lock themselves from the nursery but in the end they seemed to be eaten by what they feared.]]> 2017-09-22 17:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190222676 19mckaigm https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190225514 "I don't think you'd better consider it anymore, Father'. 'I wont have any threats from my son!" (Bradbury 7)

Throughout the story the children gain more power to the point where there is a complete role reversal. The parents are manipulated by the children and no longer have any authority. ]]> 2017-09-22 17:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190225514 19reposer https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190228409 "One of the original uses of these rooms was so that we could study the patterns left
on the walls by the child’s mind. We could study them whenever we wanted to, and help the child.
In this case, however, the room has become a means of creating destructive thoughts, instead of
helping to make them go away.”
(Bradbury 7)

Bradbury uses irony to shows how the house was supposed to help the children but in the end it did just the opposite.]]> 2017-09-22 17:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190228409 19reposer https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190236005 2017-09-22 17:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/19mckaigm/tp8vd1easwjf/wish/190236005