The Veldt Craft Moves Essay Technology is something that people take for granted and it can take over their lives. In “The Veldt” the technology of the new world has taken over the kids lives and their parents lives. The kids have been taken over by the nursery and they have been acting weird and the parents try to fix it. Ray Bradbury focused on multiple craft moves such as descriptive language, foreshadowing, flashbacks, similes, and inner thinking to show what the characters are feeling and to make the reader think.
The author uses foreshadowing to help the reader comprehend what will happen later in the story. Foreshadowing is a hint to the reader of what will come later. Sometimes it is used to show something that will be reiterated throughout the story. An example of this in the story is that the character hears a scream that sounds familiar and throughout the story that sounds comes back and they hear it many times. In the text it states, “Did you hear that scream?” This is something that the characters hear all throughout the story and it gives you a hint to what is next. The author uses descriptive language throughout the story to give detail and give the reader a good idea of what the …show more content…
It also makes you think hard and keep you involved in the book. In the story Ray Bradbury has the main character find his wallet in the nursery chewed and slobbered on. This makes you think about why his wallet is there, how it got there, and why it is chewed up and slobbered on and it had blood smears on it. In the text it states, ‘“An old wallet of mine,” he said. He showed it to her. The smell of hot grass was on it and the smell of a lion. There were drops of saliva on it, it had been chewed, and there were blood smears on both sides.’ This shows that you need to think hard about how the wallet got there because they didn’t give an answer as to why it was