The Veldt Literary Analysis

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In a story Called ‘The Veldt’, by Ray Bradbury, two kids get obsessed with technology. It eventually results in the kids replacing the parents with this room called the nursery. Long story short, the kids went insane because of the parents bad parenting and ended up killing the parents.

The parents are at fault in this situation, because they let their kids get obsessed with technology because they failed to set limits. early on in the story, the parents said something along the lines of, “we could set limitations, but nothing is too good for our children”.

During the end of the story, as the parents are about to shut down the house, the kids obsession was so huge that they went into rage mode and killed their parents so that they could

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