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The Difference Between A House In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury
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Have you ever wanted a house that will do basically everything for you? I mean they have cars that will drive for you. What is the difference between a house that does everything and car that drives you, they both make you lazy and do thing for you. If you had a house or car that would do everything for you then what would the point of family be? I mean you do lots of things with your family like make dinner or play games with them. If there was a house that would do this what would the point of family. That is exactly what happens in the story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. From the story Cradle Hold by David Klass a boy named Duke just joined a wrestling team and his dad would go to every match that he had. Some of Duke’s teammates
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In the story Cradle Hold Harry would do anything to come to Duke’s games and he made every game and it meant a lot of Duke even though he did not show it, on the inside it meant a lot to him. This shows that Harry would do anything to go and watch Duke and he would put his matches on the calendar months in advance. Harry know that Duke did not like all of the things that he would do when he was young and he would go to whatever Duke was in. This goes back to the claim be your family will do anything to come a watch what you do and the least that you can do for them is do more things together. Also in the story Harry would try to do stuff with Duke, and Duke would not find it fun and Harry thought that Duke would never be what he wanted him to be but then Harry realized that he need to let Duke do what he wanted. I know that some people might say that technically you are doing things with your family because they are coming to somthing that you're in but really they are just coming and supporting …show more content…
From the story Cradle Hold, Harry would help support duke in whatever he would do and Harry would do it with a smile. Harry wanted Duke to succeed so he would do what it takes and if that is just going to all of his games he would do it because he wanted Duke to succeed. Near the end of the story Duke’s mom started to come to the games because she realized how much that just coming to his games would impacted Duke and it made him feel a lot better about himself and it made him play better. Also from the story Harry would walk around with Duke and try to get him to do things that he would do when he was a boy but Duke would not want to and Harry would try and try and if Duke would not do it he would go try another thing until he found somthing that Duke would want to do. This shows that Harry would do anything to help Duke and if somthing did not work he would go to the next thing until he found something that work for

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