Why create something that over time can destroy who we are? Ray Bradbury the author of the short story The Veldt shows us, how depending on technology can effect our every day lives. Overtime the technology we make is starting to replace some of our human features, for instance how we transformed writing into typing. Bradbury points out in the short story how even the manual effort of tying ones shoes has been taken over by a machine. With the development of all the different types of technology we will soon have no reason to even move a muscle. This short story is warning us that depending on technology to complete our daily tasks is damaging to our everyday lives. The large amount of dependence the Hadley family has towards technology …show more content…
As such being spoiled with technology helped contribute to the destruction of the Hadleys. The following quote represents the extent as to which George and Lydia Hadley spoiled their children “But nothings to good for the children” George Hadley had said to his wife. The Hadley family’s house was one giant machine that answered their every need. This is so that their kids do not need to worry about having to do anything for themselves which spoiled them to a specific degree, as nothings to good for Wendy and Petter. Having to not talk or need any type of assistance from another member of the family caused the family’s relationship to disintegrate. The dependence on technology replaced their dependency on each other. In particular the technology replaced the parents responsibilities. Wendy and Peter use the nursery to express their emotions “‘Wendy and Peter aren't in their rooms,’ said his wife. He lay in his bed with his beating heart. ‘No,’ he said. ‘They’ve broken into the nursery’”(142). A role as a mother and father is to be someone that your children can open up to, but instead the Hadley family had a nursery that gave their children a place to relax and forget their feelings. Seeing how the kids are so attached to the nursery is evident that their parents would rather not deal with their children's emotions allowing the technology to take over. To conclude the Hadley’s relationship is being shattered by the amount of technology they depend