In America today, people usually have simple lives. There have been many inventions in the past century that help us live our everyday life. In the story, "The Veldt", there are inventions that seem unimaginable just as a dishwasher might have been inconceivable a century ago. Americans are also "big" on trying to make raising children easier on parents. It almost seems as if our goal as Americans is to make life easier. "The Veldt" shows that simplicity in life does not necessarily make life easier.
I think that the situation in "The Veldt" is slowly evolving in today's world. Soon, humans will have the knowledge and technology to own a house that will act as a "wife and mother now and nursemaid" (Bradbury, p.199). The house in "The Veldt" is actually a character. The house sweeps the floors, does the laundry, cooks the food, sets the table, brushes teeth and hair, ties shoes, and bathes its occupants. The children growing up in this house are completely spoiled. How can these children learn responsibility if they don't even have to clean up after themselves? Even though there is no house such as this currently in existence, children today are becoming more and more lazy. Young people in America today don't understand how easy they have life. Children are always complaining about having to do dishes or cleaning the house, but these actions help build character and prepare for their lives as adults. Wendy and Peter probably don't even know how to tie their own sho!.
es because they have a machine that has always tied shoes for them. Peter is so spoiled he is complaining about having to do simple things that we do everyday. "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 own hair and give myself a bath", asks Peter when his father threatens to turn off the house. When this child becomes an adult, he will expect everything to be handed to him and done for him.
Short Story Fact Sheet : The Veldt The Veldt is the name of the short story and it's author is Ray Bradbury. The Veldt is a room in the Hadley's house where the children spend most of there time. ... In the nursery the walls purred, and an African veldt appeared. ...
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury shows a great example of the possible dangers involved in technological advances. ... On that last point I am of course referring to The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. In "The Veldt," George and Lydia Hadley purchase a grand home that does everything for them, it cooks, cleans, gives them baths, brushes their teeth, etc(Bradbury). ... The parents in "The Veldt" become replaced by the house in the children's lives (Bradbury). ...
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