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
"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)
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