The Veldt Research Paper

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The parents, George and Lydia are to blame for their own Deaths because they let their kids get addicted. In the story the “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, the story will take place in the future where there are smart homes the parents are George and Lydia, and the kids are Peter and Wendy. For example, in the story, it shows how the children were addicted, "Go to bed," he said to the children. They opened their mouths. "You heard me," he said. Early on in the story we truly start to see the problem when the kids would not come down to eat and they kept begging for more and when their parents threatened to shut off their technology which made the kids really mad. ¨Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?¨ Later in the story we truly see what leads to the parents death’s when the children are mad and the kids want to pick technology over their parents and the kids lock their parents in the nursery which makes them die. The parents are to blame for their deaths because they let their kids get too addicted. Overall making the kids pick their technology over there parents which makes their parents die. …show more content…
According to http://www.bbc.com it states that “Children aged five to 16 spend an average of six and a half hours a day in front of a screen,” which is really bad and can lead to people getting obese cause if there on their screen half the day they won't go do exercise and they will just keep eating, and keep eating and won't eat healthy meals, and they won't go up or downstairs which means they're getting too addicted to the nursery. The parents should of interacted or taken control of this action a lot

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