The Veldt Literary Analysis

Respect will come from children if parents display love and discipline for them. Ray Bradbury, the author of The Veldt, agrees with this notion and shows in his story that parents who don’t care for and interact with their children, they will lose respect and love from their children. Bradbury thinks parents need to take initiative and be able to command their children’s respect. Through setting, imagery, and foreshadowing, the Bradbury suggests that parents need to discipline their children.
Bradbury introduces the setting of the story to demonstrate how the children are spoiled and have lost their parent figures in their life. The narrator notes that “They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them,” (Bradbury 1). Bradbury implies that the home is taking over what normal parent responsibilities would be and replacing the parents. Wendy and Peter, the children, lose their respect and love for their parents because they …show more content…
He uses the first sentence of the story to get the reader thinking about what is going to happen. The story starts with “George, I wish you’d look at the nursery,” (Bradbury 1). This gets the reader starting to believe that there is something wrong with the nursery and something bad might happen. The text also notes that “It’s just that the nursery is different now than it was,” (Bradbury 1). Bradbury is trying to get the point across to readers that Lydia is very concerned that there is something wrong with the nursery and is worried. Lydia is also concerned that the children are spending too much time in the nursery and it is taking the role as parents for the kids. Bradbury suggests that some technology should be taken away. and it is warning to readers that nothing good comes from overuse of