The Great Imagination Heist by Reynolds Price

In Reynolds Price's Story "The Great Imagination Heist" the media has come to dominate the lives of many of today's youths. Reynolds Price expresses extreme dismay at the media's ever-tightening grasp over the impressionable minds of adolescents. He sincerely feels that the effects of prolonged exposure to television, film, video games, and the Internet are detrimental to the development of a youth's imagination and ability to think freely, without outside influence. The word "heist" indicates the intention to rob or steal. Price laments what he perceives to be the robbing of original, per…