Essay On The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

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What’s a room that conforms to its occupants’ whims? What’s a kind of room that you can obsess over so much, that it makes you lose sight of the real world? A nursery, that’s what. “The Veldt” is a short story by Ray Bradbury that depicts the lives of the Hadley family. The 2 children, Wendy and Peter, don’t know how to deal with denial, so when they are told no for the first time, they start acting differently. In their digital nursery, they start creating scenes of terror, rather than Wonderland and Aladdin, they think up lions and murder. Keep in mind, they had this change in thought because they were denied something they wanted, once. A lesson this story suggests is that technology shouldn’t raise your children because they will never …show more content…

They are so used to just having everything done for them and they are so used to getting everything they wanted and nothing they didn’t. Peter is basically saying things that a drug addict would say - in the way that they both would want to just look listen and smell - and if the parents were parenting their children correctly they would’ve known better than to let their kids be addicted to their technology this …show more content…

In “The Veld,” the children absolutely hate their parents, “Oh, I hate you!” Peter says. They hate them so much because they weren’t even raised by them. They have never even had a parent to child connection since the kids were raised basically by all the technology in their house. This is just like in “The Pedestrian,” because in “The Pedestrian” the guy walking was in a society that was completely raised by technology. This is obvious because no one was outside at all, everyone was busy with all their devices inside. The man walking was arrested for a reason that is quite pathetic; he was arrested for walking on the street. “Walking, just walking, walking?” the officer questioned that he was walking. In this community it was unheard of to walk. To the people in this society, it wasn’t normal to have a lit up house. These things are things that should be okay, and normal to do. In both these texts it is clear that it is wrong to raise people with

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