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Ray Bradberry's Foreshadowing Of Nursery

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Bradbury uses the foreshadowing of the name nursery, which is supposed to be a place for children, to make the reader believe that something bad is going to happen to the family. The nursery in the story is a futuristic room that plays what you want it to play just from mind control. This technology takes control of the family in the story this is because Bradberry wants to show that families need to bond, rather than indulge in material possessions. For example, the foreshadowing of the bloody items in the nursery revels how the family is going to get destroyed if they don’t stop the technology from taking control of their lives. In the story Wendy and Peter are so evolved into the nursery, consequently they forget that family should be held

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