Has the thought of children going crazy ever crossed a person´s mind? Behaviors like throwing unneeded tantrums, freaking out, and harmful actions can be considered as crazy. Actions like these can definitely happen when one reads this story. This story is about a family whose life evolves solely around technology, it changes the actions and thoughts of the Hadley family. The ending of the story is two dead parents in a very realistic virtual reality room. Thanks to the help of their nursery the children have changed and become murderous. In the passage ¨The Veldt¨, fear is created in several ways, but the children cause many of the fear with their mind, manipulation, and knowledge.
First of all, the children used the technology to change …show more content…
The children made many remarks in the story that showed who wore the pants in the family. They had become the bosses and they knew it. Bradbury wrote, “You know how difficult Peter is about that. When I punished him a month ago by locking the nursery for even a few hours - the tantrum he threw! And Wendy too. They live for the nursery.” (Page 2, Bradbury). An explanation is that the children controlled their parents and got to do whatever they wanted. The parents would succumb to the children's power and give up. The parents could not even discipline them they were so out of hand. In this story, humanity is warped, the children control their parents. One fears that the parents cannot contain their kids. The children are surrounded by technology all day and receive no affection from their parents. Peter Hadley said, “That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And Brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?” (Page 6 & 7, Bradbury). Wendy and Peter have not done anything for themselves their whole life, all they do with their time is learn the technology and advance it. The children do whatever they want whenever they want to do
First of all, the children used the technology to change …show more content…
The children made many remarks in the story that showed who wore the pants in the family. They had become the bosses and they knew it. Bradbury wrote, “You know how difficult Peter is about that. When I punished him a month ago by locking the nursery for even a few hours - the tantrum he threw! And Wendy too. They live for the nursery.” (Page 2, Bradbury). An explanation is that the children controlled their parents and got to do whatever they wanted. The parents would succumb to the children's power and give up. The parents could not even discipline them they were so out of hand. In this story, humanity is warped, the children control their parents. One fears that the parents cannot contain their kids. The children are surrounded by technology all day and receive no affection from their parents. Peter Hadley said, “That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And Brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?” (Page 6 & 7, Bradbury). Wendy and Peter have not done anything for themselves their whole life, all they do with their time is learn the technology and advance it. The children do whatever they want whenever they want to do