Thematic Essay The Veldt - 1165 Words

Thematic Essay Draft Imagine you re in a silent dead house The only noise you hear is yourself breathing. You hear yourself breathing in and out as you walk around with everything off. You turned everything off and it feels like there s dead body everywhere. Your kids are begging you to turn everything back on not wanting to leave the nursery. This is what happens in the book â€Å"The Veldt† by Ray Bradbury is about the family and their kids have this room that is called the nursery. In the nursery the point is to travel where ever you want but you stay in the house you just see what is looks like. Their kids Wendy and Peter don t use it for that reason. They only go to one place and one place only and that is Africa. One thing that happens in this book is that the kids are too obsessed with technology like the nursery which is to learn about other places and what they they look like and what it feels like, but that’s not what they do and things are getting out of control with them always visiting Africa. The children are becoming too obsessed with the technology and its affecting their learning on other places. They aren’t using the nursery for the things that they need to learn about. They are just using it for their entertainment and not for learning basing. Although some say that it is more out of hate then technology that is why they are changing is because they are hating their parents because they won t let them do what they want to do. Like how their dad wouldn’t