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The Veldt, By Ray Bradbury

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In the story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury technology is to blame for the parents death in the nursery. First, it’s to blame because technology was locked on African grasslands filled with lions. Second, the nursery has no censor and doesn’t care what it shows to the children. Finally, technology is ruining the kids' lives and taking over. In The Veldt the parents are locked in a nursery that is actually a virtual reality African grassland filled with lions. They are aware of the lions, so they try to imagine a different situation yet, the nursery continues to be frozen on the grasslands of Africa. “Come on, room! I demand Aladdin!” the father, George, said. However, nothing happens when he says this. The lions mumbled in their baked pelts. “The fool room’s out of order,” he said. “It won’t respond” (Veldt 3). Continuously George demanded to change the scenery in the nursery but the technology was not responding to him. “Let’s have Aladdin and his lamp,” he snapped. The veldtland remained; the lions remained” (Veldt 5). Again, the nursery froze on George. Technology contributes to the demise of the parents because they are stuck in the virtual world with the lions. …show more content…

“The children thought of zebras, and there were zebras. Sun - sun. Giraffes - giraffes. Death and death” (Veldt 1). This is very dangerous for the children and the parents. “That sun. He could feel it on his neck, still, like a hot paw. And the lions. And the smell of blood” (Veldt 2). The fact that the features of this nursery are this realistic is absolutely astonishing. At the end of the day these are little kids, most little kids have crazy thoughts..such as the grasslands filled with lions. Technology is all to blame in this situation because it has no censor and will show anything the kids think of. Technology has no filter when it comes to what it shows even to little kids such as the

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