The Veldt Literary Analysis

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In The Veldt, the parents, George and Lydia, are to blame for their own deaths. They are to blame because they didn’t set limits on the technology and got to addicted to it. Early in the story, the parents, George and Lydia, are having a conversation about how they think they should shut down the house."But I thought that's why we bought this house, so we wouldn't have to do anything?" This support my claim because the technology got everyone addicted and they depended on it for doing everything. The kids couldn’t have killed them if they didn’t get addicted to the technology. They technology is the house, and the parents bought the house. From buying the house, the parents killed themselves. Later in the story, the kids came to the parents

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