The Wild Plains of The Human Mind

     In Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Veldt", two kids become obsessed with this technologically advanced nursery, were your thoughts become 3D images. The kids become so obsessed that they viewed the nursery as a living being. During their time in the nursery the kids become obsessed about the white plains of the African savanna .This nursery converted the kids’ thoughts about lions and other predators into mechanical figures that act as if though they were real animals, which means that they were as dangerous as the real deal. When the kids’ parents try to shut down the nursery and the whole house the nursery roars to life in the middle of the night and the parents enter the nursery to see what was wrong but they didn’t came out……   

I love how Bradbury uses imagery  to help the reader have a really good picture of the story so they can feel like they were inside the story itself.

The hot straw smell of

lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden  water  hole, the great rusty

smell of animals, the  smell of dust like a red paprika in the  hot air. And

now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures(3)

In this quote we can see some examples of strong imagery in phrases like "the smell of dust like a red paprika" or "the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod", with this phrases you can hear the thump of the antelope feet and smell the the ambient of the great plains of Africa. Our main characters are George and Lydia Hadley, and this example of characterization shows Lydia's opinion about the nursery:

   
"I don't know - I don't know," she said, blowing her nose, sitting down

in a  chair that immediately began to rock and comfort  her.(7)

This tells us, readers, that in the time period the story is being told, is a very technologically advanced society and in a far away future.

"This is such an awesome story and the message behind it is so true, even today; We must be careful with how much technology we allow ourselves because we, man, will destroy ourselves, our race, if not" (Kodi Kelly)