Analysis Of Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

Many people rely on technology in their everyday life. Although Ray Bradbury wrote “The Veldt” 60 years ago, he would agree that people rely on materialistic possessions. In his story the children, Wendy and Peter, begin to rely heavily on their tech-savvy house causing them to see the house as a part of their family and lives. Through spoiling the children, lack of discipline, and conflict, Bradbury establishes a warning about the dangers of having a materialistic lifestyle. Bradbury grants the children with a tech-savvy house to show that the kids are spoiled in life. Through the use of describing everything the kids own, Bradbury establishes that the kids are spoiled. The children’s home contains machines that tie their shoes and even brush

In the story the children are so used to getting what they want that when they are told no they become very livid and act out. Bradbury states “We’ve given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward, secrecy, disobedience?” (Bradbury 8). This shows that the kids no longer have a care to listen to their parents. Bradbury also says “The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and pranced and threw things. They yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped at the furniture.”(Bradbury 13). This illustrates how enraged the children were that the parents were turning off the house. The surprise at the end of the story shows that the kids have become ungrateful of everything they own and have been given when they became livid when they were told they couldn’t have what they wanted and that things were going to need to change. Through illustrating the anger and disobedience of the kids this shows that the children lack discipline in their

In the story the parents want to make changes on how the children should be living. The children do not agree with their parents and that causes a conflict between them. Bradbury states “And the whole house dies of here and now.” Peter then replies “Oh I hate you! I wish you were dead!” (Bradbury 13). This establishes the conflict between the children and the parents. From what Peter says to his father implies that the ending of this conflict is not going to be good. George wants to start living a different life, a better life, where there is not so much technology. He wants to teach his kids how to do things on their own because he is beginning to feel that the children are becoming too attached with the technology, as if it is becoming unhealthy for them. In the end it reveals that the children were involved with Africa so much because they were planning for when the lions ate their parents. Bradbury establishes that the house is becoming too much for everyone in the family even though they all may not realize it and causes a conflict with it, showing that the kids have a very different opinion about the