How Does Ray Bradbury Use Metaphors In The Veldt

In Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Veldt, the author uses vivid imagery and metaphor to enhance the reader’s depiction of the story and transport them into a futuristic world that we have not yet experienced. The Hadley’s are a futuristic family living in an automated house system, the Happylife Home. It cooks for them, gives them baths, and serves them in anyway possible, and the parents, George and Lydia Hadley had installed a nursery for their two children, Wendy and Peter. The siblings adored the nursery, which was installed with a holographic featured that changed according to the child’s thoughts. If the child thought of the Arctic, the walls would change to reveal a white, bare landscape, and the temperature would drop. Eventually, Wendy and Peter become spoiled and ungrateful towards their parents, and feel as though they are being mistreated. …show more content…
Several times throughout the story, the author uses metaphors while creating images and scenes. An example was a scene taking place inside the Hadley’s nursery, where George Hadley discovered an African Veldt. “Your mouth was stuffed with the 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 author continues to build this scene, but the bulk of the metaphors he uses are in this passage. The way he writes the scene vividly describes how realistically the nursery makes the veldt seem, even though it is only an image on the wall. Also, the reader is able to imagine the smells and the colors of the lions a lot better than if the author had just written