In Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Veldt, illustrates his views of the future and how children will behave if you let technology run their lives. The Hadley family has a technologically modern home that does everything for them. This causes the children to revolt against their parents because they are spoiled and corrupted. The young children do not realize that it is a problem because the parents gave them unlimited freedom to so what they want. The parents allow their children to disrespect them, automatons that care for them, manipulate them and spoiling children cause them to be unproductive in life and become dependent on others to care for them. The children have automatons to allow them not to work causing them become incompetent.
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George and Lydia are admiring their technologically advanced home. As they walked down “the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them” (1). George payed a lot of money for this unique type of home in which he believed was the best thing for his family and mainly his kids. The parents give their children unlimited freedom and Peter and Wendy are young children who are allowed to travel across town by themselves whenever they want. As the children travelled across town to a plastic carnival, the parents ate by themselves “At dinner they ate alone, for Wendy and Peter were at a special plastic carnival across town and had televised home to say they'd be late, to go ahead eating. So George Hadley, bemused, sat watching the dining-room table produce warm dishes of food from its mechanical interior”(5). The parents give their children total freedom believing that it is great parenting skills as they want best for their children but for they don't understand that children need rules. With all the money and freedom given to the children, it makes them expect that everything that they want in life will be given to …show more content…
The children are lying to their parents and thinking that it is alright. George asked the children about the African veldt in the nursery, “‘Yes, come tell us about the nursery," said George Hadley. The brother and sister winked at him and then at each other. "Nursery?" "All about Africa and everything," said the father with false joviality. "I don't understand," said Peter. "Your mother and I were just traveling through Africa with rod and reel; Tom Swift and his Electric Lion," said George Hadley. "There's no Africa in the nursery," said Peter simply. "Oh, come now, Peter. We know better.” ”I don't remember any Africa," said Peter to Wendy. "Do you?" "No." said Wendy”(8). Peter and Wendy are lying to their parents and the parents don't punish them for misbehaving but instead ignore the fact that they lied. This shows the children that it is okay to lie because they know they won’t get in trouble. Peter threatens his father about shutting off the nursery. Peter talks back and says “‘I don't think you'd better consider it any more, Father." "I won't have any threats from my son!” "Very well." And Peter strolled off to the nursery” (12). Even with threats, the parents still will not punish the kids for misbehaving and it creates bad influence onto the children. The children think with everything that has happen, the parents cannot say no for an answer because they can’t face the fact
George and Lydia are admiring their technologically advanced home. As they walked down “the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them” (1). George payed a lot of money for this unique type of home in which he believed was the best thing for his family and mainly his kids. The parents give their children unlimited freedom and Peter and Wendy are young children who are allowed to travel across town by themselves whenever they want. As the children travelled across town to a plastic carnival, the parents ate by themselves “At dinner they ate alone, for Wendy and Peter were at a special plastic carnival across town and had televised home to say they'd be late, to go ahead eating. So George Hadley, bemused, sat watching the dining-room table produce warm dishes of food from its mechanical interior”(5). The parents give their children total freedom believing that it is great parenting skills as they want best for their children but for they don't understand that children need rules. With all the money and freedom given to the children, it makes them expect that everything that they want in life will be given to …show more content…
The children are lying to their parents and thinking that it is alright. George asked the children about the African veldt in the nursery, “‘Yes, come tell us about the nursery," said George Hadley. The brother and sister winked at him and then at each other. "Nursery?" "All about Africa and everything," said the father with false joviality. "I don't understand," said Peter. "Your mother and I were just traveling through Africa with rod and reel; Tom Swift and his Electric Lion," said George Hadley. "There's no Africa in the nursery," said Peter simply. "Oh, come now, Peter. We know better.” ”I don't remember any Africa," said Peter to Wendy. "Do you?" "No." said Wendy”(8). Peter and Wendy are lying to their parents and the parents don't punish them for misbehaving but instead ignore the fact that they lied. This shows the children that it is okay to lie because they know they won’t get in trouble. Peter threatens his father about shutting off the nursery. Peter talks back and says “‘I don't think you'd better consider it any more, Father." "I won't have any threats from my son!” "Very well." And Peter strolled off to the nursery” (12). Even with threats, the parents still will not punish the kids for misbehaving and it creates bad influence onto the children. The children think with everything that has happen, the parents cannot say no for an answer because they can’t face the fact