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Technology: The Downturn Of Society

Technology has been affecting society since the beginning of time. In every era there is a new form of technology that has helped shape society. In Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt," he expresses the change that technology brought to the Hadley residence through their virtual reality room. In Michiko Kakutani's "Bananas for Rent," she writes about the change that the media, a form of technology, has brought to the American society. Although the story is fiction and the essay is nonfiction, both works deal with the change that technology has brought upon society. Both works express a negative connotation on the subject of technology. Although there are several distinctions between both works, when seen through the formalist lens, "The Veldt" and "Bananas for Rent" both answer the ontological question of the importance of technology using similar methods. Both authors answer the question using their tone, foreshadowing, and plot.
Bradbury uses his story's tone to prove that......


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