October 13, 2007
The Bet and the Veldt are similar in many different ways. Both of the books have to something with relationship and power. Power is shown in both of these stories. It is shown in the Veldt when the kids kill there parents because the parents let them take to much control. It is also shown in the Bet when the two of the guys thought that they could take control(another way of showing power) over each other. In both of the stories someone gets hurt because the parents got killed by the tigers and the guy the was in the jail cell wasted most of his life and that could have hurt him socially. Both of the stories were also written in the past.
There are some difference’s in the story. One of the difference’s is that one the Veldt is in the future and the Bet is in the past. The Veldt uses names to describe the charters and the bet uses what the person does like for ex: “The banker:”. The stories “The Bet” and “The Veldt” are different because then The Ve ldt is more of an adventure story and scary, but The Bet is more of a think about it kind of story and a sort of a find it out by yourself kind of story. 
