Post your statements about technology here

Your homework is to come up with 5 original statements about technology and post these statements to the comment section of the blog. Your statements should be specific and original. No repeats! No cliches! This post will be used as a homework grade of 5 points.

"The Veldt" and discussion question

This is a link to the full text of the short story: http://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/bradbury_veldt.pdf

Here are the questions we will use for graded discussion in class:

“The Veldt”                                                                                                                  Name

Class discussion Questions

                                                  

1.      Why did the nursery stop responding to the adults?

2.      Why is the setting Africa?

3.      Are the kids dead

4.       at the end?

5.      Did the lions eat the parents at the end?

6.      How did the lions become real?

7.      What is the message Bradbury is sending about technology?

8.      Why did the children wish the parents dead?

9.      Why did the parents let them back in the nursery?

10.   Why did it take so long for the parents to see the negative effects of the nursery?

11.    What’s the relationship between the parents?

12.   Whose screams did Mr. and Mrs. Hadley hear?

13.   Why could the parents not change the room?

14.   What’s the purpose of the psychologist in the story?

 

 

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Here is the audioclip of "The Veldt" read by Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSoigRHHNLM