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In this section, you’ll cite textual evidence to support a literary analysis as well as inferences drawn from the text.

While browsing social media one day, your feed presented content from Priya and Choi, content creators who discuss literary elements of what they’re currently reading, including themes. The first video, about “The Veldt,” a short story by Ray Bradbury, captures your attention.

This story revolves around two parents who are concerned about their young children because they believe technology negatively affects them.

Priya and Choi are analyzing the short story and read the following excerpt.

“Everything. Where before they had a Santa Claus, now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santa. You’ve let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children’s feelings. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there’s hatred here. You can feel it coming out of the sky. Feel that sun. George, you’ll have to change your life. Like too many others, you’ve built it around creature comforts. Why, you’d go hungry tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn’t know how to cook an egg. All the same, turn everything off. Start new. It’ll take time. But we’ll make good children out of bad in a year, wait and see.”

Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the theme of overreliance on technology?
Question 1 options:

"Why, you'd go hungry tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn't know how to cook an egg."


"You can feel it coming out of the sky. Feel that sun. George, you'll have to change your life."


"Where before they had a Santa Claus, now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santa."


"But we'll make good children out of bad in a year, wait and see."

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"Why, you'd go hungry tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn't know how to cook an egg."

This line directly shows the parents' dependence on technology for basic needs, highlighting overreliance.