Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Veldt

In today’s society, technology seems to rule the world. Often times people don’t think about the consequences that it brings. One man, however, did think about the effects and used his writing to warn others about them. In the story The Veldt, Ray Bradbury uses characterization and foreshadowing to convey that adaptability to technology can cause separation between children and parents.

Bradbury uses characterization of Wendy and Peter to show how they got accustomed to the technology in their house, which emphasizes how they began to grow apart from their parents. Peters response to his dad making a decision to turn off the house was, “That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it?” The character Bradbury molds here, is a boy who depends too much on the use of technology. He does this by alluding to the fact that he cannot do every day simple things, such as tying his own shoes without the assistance of technology. On the contrary, his parents grew up in a generation

When the parents decided to investigate the veldt, the husband found a bloody wallet that belongs to him and the wife says, “How did your wallet get here?” This foreshadows that the people that are being killed in the veldt are the parents. In addition, later on the father hears screams coming from the veldt and he says, “Those screams-they sound familiar.” Since we know that what goes on inside the veldt is all from the children’s imaginations, we know that the kids are the ones that determined this fate for their parents. The more the kids use the veldt the more common the screams are, this means the more they want their parents dead. There is no greater separation in this world than death and through the veldt; the kids were able to accomplish