The Veldt Essay

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Technology is the ultimate tool to find almost anything that you are curious about. Technology can be used as a great tool for learning new things, but at the same time technology can be used in a negative manner. In the two stories “The Veldt” and “In Another Country” technology is used in the sense for making life much worse. The authors of the two short stories use technology to show that it is detrimental to society because it keeps society from being together.
In the story “The Veldt,” the author Bradbury shows that technology has caused people to become dependent on it. Children these days are using iPads, iPhones, and other various types of technology for constantly checking social media or texting friends. That is causing children these days to become more dependent on technology where they are not able to live for a second without it. This is a problem because Bradbury tells us that technology has taken over the way people are behaving in society in a negative way. He is telling us that it is affecting the youth and adults in their day to day life. In this short story George says, “We’ve been contemplating our mechanical, electronic navels for too long. My God, how we need a breath of honest air” (Bradbury 9). George in this quote is stressing on the point of how we humans have been too attached to technology; where it has changed us in the way we act. He is trying to explain that people are not spending enough time for an interesting activity, but using that time for using their phone or computer. George is trying to argue that life is for doing many adventures while technology is only focused on one aspect of life. Additionally, technology is taking away the way youth are interacting with others. “The Veldt” is trying...

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...hurt the person. Additionally, the separation shows how the major is deeply upset of what happened. Technology can help fix a physical injury, but it will never fix an emotional scar. The major now has the thought that technology causes even more problems where it has played a major game between life and death. Technology has played the role of a wound that will stay in his heart for the rest of his life.
Technology has played a major role in the way we act and the way we are. Technology in the two stories “The Veldt” and “In Another Country” showed us that it is inadequate to society. In these two stories the authors showed how technology is affecting the youth by separating these young people from friends and family. Furthermore, it was shown that technology is used in the sense for making people to become farther apart rather than coming together as a whole.

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