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The Veldt Literary Analysis
Ray Bradbury, as we read about in the article last week, wasn’t the hugest fan of mechanics, which consequently led to him sending messages that were similar to warnings about technology through his writing, and toward his readers. His short story The Veldt in particular is about a family of four, and their futuristic Happy-Life Home along with their imagination-powered nursery. In the story the two children, Wendy and Peter, become closer to the nursery than to George and Lydia, their own parents. When George repeatedly threatens to shut off the nursery completely, Peter and Wendy throw huge fits and get extra upset that they don’t get to use and be in the one thing that actually makes them happy. This leads to the children having deadly thoughts;
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