Fall From University Grace

The Dangers of Technology...

Both the short story "The Veldt" and the article "Cell Phones and Today's Teens" share the common theme that improper use of technology can lead to dangerous behaviour.  In the short story "The Veldt" the children, Peter and Wendy, have integrated their love around the "nursery" instead of their parents and family. They love the "nursery" as though it is their mother, or father. The love for this technology, eventually, destroys their family, leaving their parents dead, and their lives revolving around the "nursery". These days cell-phones are what control our lives. "4 out of 5 teenagers have cell-phones" stated the Cell Phones and Today's Teens article.  But what they do with these cell-phones is considered inapropriate, and unethical. These days kids and teens are using their cellular phones, to take inapropriate pictures, either with little clothing, or no clothing on.
Due to the amount of freedom, and use of cell-phones when being able to take pictures and videos, many videos and pictures are being posted, and gossiped about leading to more and more people being able to view these pictures of videos globally. In other words, this can be called "child pornography" stated by the Cell Phones and Teen's Today article.
Another negative consequence in having video- or picture-taking capabilities in phones is teenagers these days are taking videos of people fighting, bullying etc... and posting them globally, so everyone can see. Any life moment at any time can be caught on video now due to the development of cell phones and video phones, as stated by the Cell Phones and Teen's Today article.
In conclusion, technology, like in The Veldt, is doing nothing but leading us to some mean and awful times. As you can see in The Veldt, the children end up killing their parents in the end due to their love for their technology, and in real life, kids and teens love their technology so much, and do so much with it, but like in The Veldt, technology isn't our friend, but a danger to us.

Troseth, K(2008). Cell Phones and Today’s Teens. Retrieved October 13, 2010, from <http://www.suite101.com/content/cell-phones-and-todays-teens-a71494>

The Man Who Loved Flowers and the Sonia Varaschin Murder Investigation

      The Man Who Loved Flowers, by Stephen King, is a short story about a man, who seems completely normal, and interacts with many people throughout the story, but in the end, turns out to be the hammer murderer. The funny thing about this story is the fact that the main character in the story (who turns out to be the hammer murderer) is never caught. No one knows he is the hammer murderer.
       The Sonia Varaschin Murder Investigation, is a sad, and awful case that is currently being investigated. One thing we know through media is the fact that we have no idea who killed Sonia, or why. There apparantly was no reason as to why she was murdered. She was a nurse, and lived alone.
      I can link these two things, by one simple fact that in both cases, no one has found the murderer, or no one knows who it is. An example in The Man Who Loved Flowers would be the part when the main character passes by a flower stand and hears the awful news...

``about the hammer murderer being still on the loose and JFK had declared that the situation in a little Asian country called Vietnam would bear watching; an unidentified woman had been pulled from the East River...``

 No one knows who the hammer murderer is, he is simply someone that comes in the dark of night and kills women who remind him of his either love, or pain Norma. No one really knows why he is killing people that remind him of Norma. In the Sonia Varaschin case, no one knows who would have killed her, or even why. There is no reason apparantly, and no motive. The only ``clues`` if you wish are the workboots found in the Sonia Varaschin investigation. It is said that the workboots will be a big help (so far) in the ongoing investigation about Sonia Varaschin. In The Man Who Loved Flowers, there were no ``clues`` to be told of...  In both of these ``stories`` and real life facts, these two can be linked because in The Man Who Loved Flowers, and the Sonia Varaschin Investigation, the police etc... are trying to find the murderer and trying to solve the investigation, while no one actually can as of right now. There is no murderer in custody, or found in either ``stories`` or real life tragedy.

(Sonia Varaschin`s Home, one of the crime scenes.)

Picture of Sonia Varaschin`s Home-crime scene

Information about the Sonia Varaschin Case