Fist of all, this critique is about a sci-fi story called the veldt by Ray Bradbury and it is about George and Lydia Hadley that are parents of Peter and Wendy, their parents spoiled them with the best technology they can offer. The house was completely computerize, meaning that it was capable to do all the chores. Perhaps the most outstanding aspect of the house was the nursery because it was controlled by the kids imagination, so their thoughts were projected in the nursery.
One of the main themes of the story was imagination, because as I told you before the kids imagination was able to control the whole nursery, and the last theme that I think really fit in was violence because the parents were killed by the lions and it was partially the kids fault because they were thinking of their parents so everything that they imagined it was projected in the nursery.
This short story has a lot of sci-fi elements but I'm only going to talk about two main ones that are the future dystopia and technology advancements. A quotation that could really support my first element of sci-fi " Future Dystopia" is when the author gives a brief introduction "George and Lydia are parents of Peter and Wendy. They spare no expense at providing their children with the best that technology can offer and their house is completely computerized. This is really relevant to sic-fi because it captures almost every important element in science fiction because the house is like a mother, father, and a nursemaid, if the parents died the kids wouldn't even notices. The second element is "Technology Advancements", a quotation that could really support it is when the autor says that "The house had machines that could do all the chores like, fry eggs, generate food, bath the kids, sweep the house and much more. This is relevant to science fiction because this house can do things bi itself so that is considered a sci-fi element, also it is capable to do all the chores and all the needs.
Know I'm going to talk about the narrative techniques that are used in this story. The first one is imagery and it is used when the author starts describing the nursery "The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank and two dimensional. The walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an Africa veldt appeared, in three dimensions. The goal of imagery is to make visuals for the readers, and in the example it clearly shows what the characters were thinking. The second and last narrative technique is foreshadowing, the quotation that could really support it is "what is that? she asked.
"An old wallet of mine" he said. He sowed it to her. The smell of a lion. There were drops of salive on it, it had been chewed, and there were blood smears on both sides. Ray Bradbury was trying to give the reader a clue of what was going to happen in there future, and that is the point of foreshadowing.
In conclusion, this story gives us a really important message that is that technology is really helpful for somethings but it can never replace the unconditional love between the family. At first, I was shocked because I didn't expect that the parents died and that the kids in some way killed their parents. This is a really important lesson that is that what you love most is what hurts you the most.
One of the main themes of the story was imagination, because as I told you before the kids imagination was able to control the whole nursery, and the last theme that I think really fit in was violence because the parents were killed by the lions and it was partially the kids fault because they were thinking of their parents so everything that they imagined it was projected in the nursery.
This short story has a lot of sci-fi elements but I'm only going to talk about two main ones that are the future dystopia and technology advancements. A quotation that could really support my first element of sci-fi " Future Dystopia" is when the author gives a brief introduction "George and Lydia are parents of Peter and Wendy. They spare no expense at providing their children with the best that technology can offer and their house is completely computerized. This is really relevant to sic-fi because it captures almost every important element in science fiction because the house is like a mother, father, and a nursemaid, if the parents died the kids wouldn't even notices. The second element is "Technology Advancements", a quotation that could really support it is when the autor says that "The house had machines that could do all the chores like, fry eggs, generate food, bath the kids, sweep the house and much more. This is relevant to science fiction because this house can do things bi itself so that is considered a sci-fi element, also it is capable to do all the chores and all the needs.
Know I'm going to talk about the narrative techniques that are used in this story. The first one is imagery and it is used when the author starts describing the nursery "The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank and two dimensional. The walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an Africa veldt appeared, in three dimensions. The goal of imagery is to make visuals for the readers, and in the example it clearly shows what the characters were thinking. The second and last narrative technique is foreshadowing, the quotation that could really support it is "what is that? she asked.
"An old wallet of mine" he said. He sowed it to her. The smell of a lion. There were drops of salive on it, it had been chewed, and there were blood smears on both sides. Ray Bradbury was trying to give the reader a clue of what was going to happen in there future, and that is the point of foreshadowing.
In conclusion, this story gives us a really important message that is that technology is really helpful for somethings but it can never replace the unconditional love between the family. At first, I was shocked because I didn't expect that the parents died and that the kids in some way killed their parents. This is a really important lesson that is that what you love most is what hurts you the most.