The Veldt Literary Analysis

Throughout the existence of human life people have tried to predict the future in numerous times. However, “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury has exceptionally foreseen many commodities that were once fiction to many. In the short story, the Hadley family lives in a Futuristic setting in which homes are built to be the main caregivers of the household. Many appliances predicted by Ray are found in today's society and numerous of these predictions are used in our daily lives. For example the story states “ Their approach was sensed by a hidden switch and the nursery light turned on when they came within ten feet of it.”. In our point in time advances in modern technology have created homes that are now being built with motion sensing lights that turn …show more content…
Throughout the story Ray writes down outlandish ideas such as there “HappyLife” home costing thirty-thousand dollars with state of the art technology. Regular homes in today’s day and age can cost upwards to millions of dollars with advanced features. Another far fetched example is when he states “They went off to the air tube, where a wind blew them like brown leaves up to their sleeping rooms” the nearest idea to this is elevators, yet, it is not to be compared to the idea Ray presents. One more unrealistic concept are the futuristic dining tables. In this story dining tables are responsible for making instant meals for the family at any given time such as when George Hadley says “We forgot the tomato sauce,” soon after tomato sauce appears. Our technology has not came close to this idea as humans are still required to prepare and make food. These comparisons make the reader question if the futuristic goods are still in the process of being created within the next few years. One thing is certain, however, despite the short story being published in the 1950’s a majority of the commodities became true inventions in our society we live in