“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story which involves a couple with two children whose psyche is affected by technology. The story starts out with a family who live in a contemporary “Happy Life Home,” a house which is considered to be ‘perfect’ in their society. The parents solely spoil their kids by allowing them to take advantage of this technology which ultimately does everything for the children, such as having the house filled with machines that complete everyday tasks for them. The animated home’s actions can be seen as Bradbury’s warning to society about the threat technology can have on the family unit. Ray Bradbury conveys the central message of dangerous effects technology can have on parents and children through the use of imagery, diction, and syntax. …show more content…
The author does an incredible job creating vivid descriptions that assist the reader to create images in their own mind. Bradbury executes this when he says, “And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass…” (Bradbury). “The Veldt,” author’s use of diction conveys through the positive and negative words of tone. Bradbury use of diction exemplifies the light and dark connotations. He shows this through his demandful command, “Go away,” he said to the lions. They did not go (Bradbury). This tells readers quickly that things are not in