I’m not a big reader, I never have been, but there is one story that I enjoyed reading. For this essay, I will be discussing the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury. “The Veldt” is a story about two parents named George and Lydia Hadley and their growing concerns over their children and their nursery. The Nursery is a smart room that can create projections of anything you can think of. A castle from medieval times? A fantasy world in the future? It can create a projection of anything. The children, Peter and Wendy Hadley, begin to have the room create only one projection, Africa and lions. But, there is something different about this projection, the lions are eating something, but no one can see what it is and the parents begin realizing …show more content…
It suggests that the over-reliance on technology and the loss of parental control can be detrimental to a family. In the story, Bradbury describes how both the parents and the children have lost touch with each other. The parents eventually stopped being parents and teaching Peter and Wendy important lessons because they didn’t have to do anything to get to the house. They didn’t rely on themselves at all and instead relied completely on the house for anything that needed to be done, like cooking or cleaning. Because of this, Wendy and Peter no longer see George and Lydia as their parents and more as roommates. This leads to the loss of parental control, which eventually gets George and Lydia killed. Secondly, “The Veldt” has multiple very in-depth descriptions. One example of this would be “Now the hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind of odor at the two people in the middle of the baked veldtland. 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 red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures.” (Bradley 1 &