Essay On The Veldt

In the narrative “The Veldt”, by Ray Bradbury, two parents of a technology-driven household are having issues with their nursery, a virtual reality room that is meant to be used in the kid’s learning environment, when it keeps depicting a startling and completely accurate scene of an African veldt. This nursery has been giving off unnerving vibes to the parents, but they don’t know what to do about it because they’re worried they’re going to disappoint their children if they turn it off. They’re told that they need to get away from the room and take a hiatus from their home that literally handles everything for them (their cooking, cleaning, etc.), and the parents agree; however, the kids, not so much. Their children are spoiled and don’t want to lose any of the technology that rules their life, so when the parents decide to take a vacation away from the home, the kids establish that they’re going to lock their parents inside the nursery and …show more content…
They come and go when they like; they treat us as if we were offspring. They’re spoiled and we’re spoiled.”In this segment of the narrative, George and Lydia’s worries are being brought to the light as they’re kept awake by their thoughts. After the incident where the parents were positive the nursery was depicting an African veldt, but came to find it was something completely different when the children came home, they were caught in confusion of how everything came to be. This section of the story is a big theme-builder, as the parents are coming to even more of a realization of their faults. The issue of the technology taking over was recognized, and this shows how something so consumeristic took both of the parents’ place in the children’s life, and how technology took the kids away from a more grounded, normal