Abandonment Often times children feel neglected by their parents and turn to others for consolation. In an age of technology, it’s easy for children to turn away from their parents. Technology can become like a parental figure to children, only without real consequences. In the story “The Veldt”, Ray Bradbury uses both personification and imagery to help portray his warning of the abandonment of young children to technology. Ray Bradbury uses personification to convey his message about abandonment of children to technology. The house acts so much like a mother that it became “wife and mother now, and nursemaid” (Bradbury). The house and the nursery become so involved that the children no longer need their parents. The parents almost have …show more content…
George even notices “the hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air”(Bradbury). The house became so real that the children turned to the house to console them. He uses the vivid description of the room to show just how real it had become to both the children and the parents. The children almost go as far to become physically violent when the nursery is taken away. Bradbury uses the quote “That sun. He could feel it on his neck, still, like a hot paw. And the lions. And the smell of blood”(Bradbury) to further convey his message. The author uses this device to show that the parents are equally affected by the room, just as the kids are. The parents are like children to the house and have to work for nothing. They have such a good life that they have to worry about every little thing that happens. Abby PH Werlock even describes “a space with thought-controlled holographic plasma walls, capable of creating visual illusions and their accompanying appropriate sounds and scents, which has been hijacked by the owners’ 10-year-old twins, named, interestingly enough, Peter and Wendy”(Werlock). The imagery used helps to show how controlled the house is. The walls have been “hijacked” by the owners to make the house kill the parents. This is all thanks to the abandonment of the