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Selena Supapo
September 21,2012
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Seed of Destruction Parents use technology to spoil their own children and then the children use technology to kill their own parents. This is the story of “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, where the Hadley children end up killing their own parents because they will be shutting down their high technology the nursery for their own good. In Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”, the theme “overusing technology can destroy a family bond” is shown through the conflict, situational irony, and motif. One method Ray Bradbury uses to show that family bonds can be destroyed through the overuse of technology is conflict. The conflict in the short story “The Veldt” is person versus person, the parents versus the children. George and Lydia Hadley wanting to shut down the nursery down for their children’s own good. They needed it to shut it down due to Peter and Wendy’s own good. In the nursery, Africa keeps appearing with lions. George and Lydia suspected the children has been thinking negative thoughts and things because of what is appearing in the nursery
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The Hadley family spend a lot of money to install the Happy Lifetime Home. The Happy Lifetime Home intended to give the family a happy life But the Hadley‘s Happy Life Home just made things complicated for them. Lydia had worried about the whole house besides the nursery had took care of the children and the house took care everybody and itself. What is left for her and her husband to do? Nothing. The whole house replaces the parents “job”. It ended up the children in charge and the parents be the children all because of technology. Just like how peter threatened his father about shutting down the nursery. The Happy Life Home ended up tearing the Hadley’s family apart and losing each other. Ray Bradbury used situational irony to show that overusing technology can break a family

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