The children trap the parents in the room with the African veldt. Then, “Mr. Hadley looked at his wife and they turned and looked back at the beasts edging slowly forward crouching, tails stiff. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley screamed. And suddenly they realized why those screams had sounded familiar.”(Bradbury) The children went to the most drastic thing to keep their technology: killing their own parents. Bradbury never directly says the children killed their parents, but he uses imagery to give the idea of what happened. The loss of technology caused the children to kill their parents. “In this story man is destroyed by the machines in two ways: not only are George and Lydia murdered by the nursery's technology, but the children's humanity is also destroyed.”(Milne) The author Mark Milne explains how the Hadley family is killed physically (Lydia and George) and mentally (Peter and Wendy). Not only are Lydia and George dead, Wendy and Peter are in a way as well. The loss of technology caused the children to do something bad. Along with imagery, Bradbury uses dialogue to develop theme of “The Veldt”. An example of using dialogue was when George and Peter were having a disagreement. When George was thinking about shutting off the nursery, he said “We’re …show more content…
He uses imagery when he describes how the children felt when the technology was being taken away, and when he describes how George and Lydia are murdered. He uses dialogue when Peter was complaining when George said that the family should shut off the technology for good, and when David McClean is trying to show George how much he has depended on technology. In conclusion, Ray Bradbury, while using imagery and dialogue, illustrates that it is unhealthy for humans when they are over dependent on