'Ray Bradbury's Use Of Foreshadowing In The Veldt'

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One day I had my phone taken away. It honestly seemed like the end of the world beings that it was my “whole world.” I used this device to communicate with my friends, watch ridiculous youtube videos, listen to my most favorite songs that was basically a part of my soul, and I even had it as an alarm. A part of me was gone I thought to myself, then it hit me. Undoubtedly, I relied too much on my phone to assist me, to entertain me. To be frank, I acted selfish, like a 4 year old who doesn’t get that stuffed animal after their mother said no a million times, when I had it confiscated. I know another particular story where two children rely too much on technology, an entire family actually. The story is called “The Veldt” and it stars two children, …show more content…

“‘What is that?’ she asked. ‘An old wallet of mine,’ he said. He showed it to her. The smell of hot grass was on it...and the smell of a lion.” Previously, both of the parents, Lydia and George, were exploring hot Africa and viewing the lions eating something that seemed to be meat related. After Wendy had “possibly” changed the scenery to Rima with beautiful greenery, but George found an object, his wallet, in the corner of where the lions were. A bit later in the story, “The Veldt” George tells Wendy and Peter to go to bed as they had lied and changed the African Veldt scenery to something else. Lydia and George lay in their bed and discuss that the kids are quite unbearable that, “they treat us as if were the children in the family.” As they discuss the children being explicitly spoiled, and disrespectful, they hear screams a moment later. “Two screams. Two people screaming from downstairs. And then a roar of lions.” George and Lydia then both agree that the children are not in their rooms and broke into the nursery. Both of these citations relate to the foreshadowing in the plot, and relates to the fact that people rely too much on technology. The children specifically rely too much on the nursery and go to as far as breaking into it after going against their father’s wishes. The quotes/in-text citations further the context of the story by developing the theme, “‘people rely too much on technology to assist their daily lives.’” These quotes set an uneasy feeling, as if the reader is expecting for something to happen, as if the quotes are foreshadowing a possible ending of maybe the parents meeting some kind of terrible fate. For me, at least, this spikes my interest and I’m see interested to how the story ended as I read through it. In addition, I felt unnerved as if an unknowing trouble was about to rise out of the ashes. Similarly, Ray Bradbury uses dialogue to

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