“Family is not an important thing, it is everything” -Michael J. Fox. In the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, this is proven because after not prioritizing their family, the parents of Peter and Wendy Hadley are murdered.The Hadley parents contradict each other while they continually spoil their children. After the Hadley parents endure a terrifying experience in the children’s nursery, they discuss disciplinary action against the children. Once Peter, their 10 year old son, finds out about this, he threatens his father. One thing leads to another, and later on in the story, George locks the nursery after taking advice from david McClean. Soon after, the children’s imaginations came to life and their parents were killed. The author
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While discussing disciplinary action toward the children the night of their harsh encounter with the nursery’s holograms, George and lydia heard screams:“Two screams. Two people screaming from downstairs. And then a roar of lions.’Wendy and Peter aren’t in their rooms,’ said his wife.He lay in his bed with his beating heart. ‘No,’ he said. “They’ve broken into the nursery.” “Those screams — they sound familiar.’Do they?’Yes, awfully”’(Bradbury). Faulty family relationships because the two leaders of the household, the parents, gives the children a bad example to look up to because if their parents do not have a good relationship, then their relationships with others won’t reach their potential of strength due to their lack of strong family relations. Ray Bradbury shows how technology weakens family connections by “ creating a machine that not only allows children to detach emotionally from their parents, but one that can also physically destroy the parents, as well”(Milne). The Hadley family lives in a HappyTime home, by which George is amazed and which has helped sell him the idea that money can pay for love. “George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of
While discussing disciplinary action toward the children the night of their harsh encounter with the nursery’s holograms, George and lydia heard screams:“Two screams. Two people screaming from downstairs. And then a roar of lions.’Wendy and Peter aren’t in their rooms,’ said his wife.He lay in his bed with his beating heart. ‘No,’ he said. “They’ve broken into the nursery.” “Those screams — they sound familiar.’Do they?’Yes, awfully”’(Bradbury). Faulty family relationships because the two leaders of the household, the parents, gives the children a bad example to look up to because if their parents do not have a good relationship, then their relationships with others won’t reach their potential of strength due to their lack of strong family relations. Ray Bradbury shows how technology weakens family connections by “ creating a machine that not only allows children to detach emotionally from their parents, but one that can also physically destroy the parents, as well”(Milne). The Hadley family lives in a HappyTime home, by which George is amazed and which has helped sell him the idea that money can pay for love. “George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of