Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

In the short story “The Veldt”, Ray Bradbury illustrates how the overuse of technology is catastrophic for human emotion and functions through the application of foreshadowing and personification. The parents are worried about what their children are conjuring up when they say, “Those screams - they sound awfully familiar.” “Do they?” “Yes, awfully.”And though their beds tried very bard, the two adults couldn’t be rocked to sleep for another hour. A smell of cats was in the night air.” (Bradbury, 7). The literary device in use is foreshadowing, the application of it here was to predict their mode of death. The screams are familiar not because they are of the children, but their screams. It is not very often you hear your scream, save your subconscious, which is why the

The mother felt useless being replaced and the father felt anxious in the house. The following quote was said by the concerned psychologist after seeing what was happening with the children’s nursery, “And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there is hatred here. You can feel it coming out of the sky. Feel that sun.” (Bradbury, 9). The use of personification is applied through the use of weather and emotion. The weather cannot portray real human emotions but it can symbolize anger and fury. The parallels between the children and the house are no mistake. The children’s raw emotions echo through the house, the environments in their lives only cater to them and their feelings. The lack of alternate emotions or ideas other than their causes a toll on their empathy and understanding of others. This entire design is a recipe for psychological damage resulting in extreme narcissism and selfishness. These two traits were in full effect, so when something did not go their way they acted violently and maliciously and killed their