The Veldt Analysis

Do we care more about technology than we do our parents?

Is technology taking over the world? Will technology live on, even after human existence disappears?

Do we care more about technology than the world around us?

I think to most of the questions the answer is going to be a "yes" because technology is really powerful, I mean eventually over a course of years technology will be almost like we read about in the Bradbury stories. However, technology can be really useful, and has made some advancements in the medical field for cancer patients, cell phones and personal technological devices are becoming really powerful, they are basically starting to rule our world.

"Children prefer Santa's. You've let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your

children's affections. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents."
("The Veldt")
We read in "The Veldt" how these two children had a nursery room, and this nursery room would basically create anything they imagined, well the ending to this story was a little freaky, and in some cases can be really true.

The ending the daughter, and son, locked their parents in the nursery room, and the lions that the children imagined up ate their parents. Basically the children killed their parents. However that is metaphorically speaking, Technology is something that use humans have created, and seem to be dependent on, just like the children and that nursery room.

"The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly."

("There will come soft rains.")

In this story we read about a basically robotic house, that can do anything in the world except put out it's own fire. I interpret Bradbury's quote like this, technology is the altar, we are the attendants, big meaning the adults, and small meaning the children, the gods were the creator of technology in the first place however some of them are still alive, not all of

them.

"The street was silent, and long, and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid country."
("The Pedestrian.")
This quote kind of shows us metaphorically how we are slowly yet gradually forgetting about the world around us. I mean it is really odd to just have one lonely person who walks the streets every night, because that's something he's done for a long time. If you think about it, what exactly about him makes him seem to appear suspicious? I think it's because technology always keeps us occupied inside, and to have someone walking well that's just strange, because in society sadly, if you aren't on board with the latest trends, then you're considered weird, or suspicious.

If we think about it, years ago we never had a bunch of technology devices, all we had was outside and an imagination, where as back then it was easy to get kid's to go out and play, I would know this because I was one of those kids myself, I stayed outside most of the day. While we had technology devices around I never took interest in it. When I was ten, I played outside with chalk, and bubbles, and ten year olds today all have the latest iPhones, and hardly ever go outside. When you walk up tp them with chalk, and bubbles and ask if they wanna play, they look at you like you're crazy.

However technology hasn't fully taken over the human race, eventually it will, and we will all be robots of some sort. Technology develops more, and more everyday, whether that be in the personal devices field, or maybe some kind of tool to do something special, or even with like IV machines for sick people. The sad part is, that I didn't realize these things until after I had read some of Bradbury's stories. Technology is a useful tool, and something many of us need, it can also be very dangerous as well. While it is really handy to have a cell phone, we must not get caught up in all the non-sense, about having the newest and latest addition of an iPhone. Technology makes our life easy, and I don't think it was ever meant to be taken for granted. We must wake up, and remember that we live in a beautiful world, where we should often go and enjoy some outside time, turn off the phones, and tv's and other technological devices and go for a hike, or a walk, or do something outside! Get up, get active, and enjoy the world we were made to live in, go on adventures!