The Veldt Essay

In the short story, “The Veldt” the author Ray Bradbury introduces the Hadley family who live their lives in a super high-technology house. Their house is called the Happylife Home, this home is capable of doing even the tiniest everyday tasks such as brushing your teeth or tying your shoes. The Hadley parents model an unhealthy reliance on technology to their children due to the overuse of technology in their home. The overload of technology in the home leaves the family with little to no extra chores people normally need to do such as making their bed or even brushing their teeth. The Hadley children Wendy and Peter are so reliant and invested in the technology in the house, specifically a room called the nursery that it causes them to not

The nursery is a special room in the house that brings the ideas in your head to life. Wendy and Peter become obsessed with the nursery and form a deep connection to it. The Hadley kids naturally inhabit the high use of technology through their parents who can't seem to do anything for themselves. George and Lydia Hadley take advantage of technology in their home to do most things like cook dinner, fix household repairs, and clean. Everyday tasks like these being completed so easily give the parents less responsibilities around the house. Solveig Lee explains to us through her writing on “Technology and Parent-Child Relationships” how children learn to use technology through their parents and often mirror their behaviors “ Parents often provide children with their first exposure to digital technologies, their mobile phone, and the first expectation of

It is important that parents monitor what their children do with technology in order to prevent them from using it in negative ways. In the text Wendy and Peter were turning the nursery into an African veldt filled with deathly thoughts. The parents didn't take concern to this matter for some time because they were too busy. In “The Veldt” the author Ray Bradbury states “It seemed that, at a distance, for the past month, he had heard lions roaring, and smelled their strong odor seeping as far away as his study door. But, being busy, he had paid it no attention”(Bradbury pdf). Since the parents did not act on their suspicions when they first noticed, it allowed the children to experience the deathly veldt for a month. Lydia and George Hadley fail to communicate with their children over the technology they are given, which the children tend to be around for most of the time. It is visible that the Hadley family fails to communicate due to the over-consumption of technology surrounding them. Due to the free rein Wendy and Peter were given with the nursery they were also given access to violence they should not have been able to see at their age. In L. Rowell Huesmann’s writing “The Impact of Electronic Media Violence: Scientific Theory and Research” it is stated to readers that the amount of violence children are exposed to through the internet and other media platforms has