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The Veldt Literary Analysis

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For just $30,000, you can revolutionize the way you live your life! No longer will you have to slave away in the kitchen or watch your kids every hour of the day! How could you not want a HappyLife Home, that would do everything for you? For the Hadley’s, it seemed like a dream come true! But when things go wrong, it is clear that technology isn’t all that helpful after all. Instead, Happy Life home has replaced George and Lydia’s parenting duties, which are essential to a child’s happiness. Plus, the nursery has stolen their own children’s hearts and souls from them. In the short story « The Veldt », by Ray Bradbury, the Hadley family isn’t even a real family anymore because technology has broken their relationship apart.

The Hadley family was relying too much on the technology of the house. They have let it do so much for them, that they have lost touch with their responsibilities as …show more content…

The kids don’t read, nor ever go out to play. Instead, they just fool around with their cool gadget, the nursery. At page 7, all Peter wanted to do was to go « play in Africa ». The nursery is the most important thing to them. “They live for the nursery,” says Lydia to George (at page 2). The children like it so much that they lie and rebel against their parents to protect their beloved nursery, like in this quote: « Don’t let them do it!" wailed Peter at the ceiling, as if he was talking to the house, the nursery. "Don't let Father kill everything." He turned to his father. "Oh, I hate you! » (page 9) Since the nursery is the only thing they looked up to, they just figured that their parent’s have no purpose in their lives. Proof is, at the end of the story, Peter and Wendy decide to murder them. Technology really has alternated these children’s knowledge of what is right and wrong, because killing the people who created you is one of the most mindless things to

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