The Veldt Response

The kids are to blame for their parents deaths in the veldt by Ray Bradbury. In the veldt the family has bought a smart house with a virtual reality nursery in it, this is where the kids spend most of their time. After the nursery show the room as deadly africa the parents try to thinks of ways to stop the nursery.

One of the main problems that appears in the Veldt is the children’s’ addiction to technology. This can have very negative effects.

The story show some key information of the children's obviously being addicted to the actual nursery itself and leading to the parents becoming extremely aggravated of what’s happening. An example of this is when the father was to aggravated of this happening to the point of losing his cool to the point of shouting, “And the whole damn house dies as of here and now…We’ve been contemplating our mechanical, electronic navels for too long. My God, how we need a breath of honest air” (Bradbury 12). It illustrates how the father’s rage against technology by the words he used to describe the use of technology it’s. The choice of words would also showing his supreme hatred against technology by going to the point of swearing. This basically illustrated a message into the reader’s head about how annoyed the father has been towards the nursery it’s self. And he was also doing this same feeling before, making him ask nicely about if they could, “…Intersperse this Africa with a little variety-oh, Sweden perhaps, or Denmark or China-”(Bradbury 9). It shows the fact that the parents are thinking about how technology is plaguing the family extremely. This can conclude that the tools of characters feeling and actions being used by Ray Bradbury because of the whole book has a lot of parts of the father clearly hating the use of the nursery by the

Imagine you 're in a silent dead house The only noise you hear is yourself breathing. You hear yourself breathing in and out as you walk around with everything off. You turned everything off and it feels like there 's dead body everywhere. Your kids are begging you to turn everything back on not wanting to leave the nursery. This is what happens in the book “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury is about the family and their kids have this room that is called the nursery. In the nursery the point is to travel where ever you want but you stay in the house you just see what is looks like. Their kids Wendy and Peter don 't use it for that reason. They only go to one place and one place only and that is Africa. One thing that happens in this book is that the kids are too obsessed with technology like the nursery which is to learn about other places and what they they look like and what it feels like, but that’s not what they do and things are getting out of control with them always visiting Africa.

George and Lydia are concerned that the children are using the nursery for destructive purposes rather than what the nursery was actually intended for. Similarly in “A Parents Struggle” the father thinks that because his child is using their iPad for educational purposes that no harm can come from it. The father is aware that in some occasions his child's iPad is the reason his child acts out of character, and gets upset. Yet he still allows his child to use their iPad excessively. Another connection that can be made between these two texts is the children's reactions when they are told to take a break from their technology. In “The Veldt” Peter and Wendy react negatively when their mother and father decide to turn off the HappyLife Home. Peter and Wendy end up despising their parents so much, that they wish death upon George and Lydia. Likewise, in the article the child gets ‘out of character upset’ when asked to turn off the iPad. Additionally, in both texts, the children are reliant and over-dependent on their

Children are exposed to all sorts of content online ranging from educational content, to aggressive and sexual material. Violence and cyberbullying have been linked to spending too much time on electronics (“Pediatricians,” 2013). Palo Alto Medical Foundation, too much screen time has been linked with children engaging in more aggressive behaviors such as fighting with their peers and arguing with their teachers. Furthermore, according to an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State University by the name of Douglas Gentile, “Teens with mental health issues may turn to video games for relief, but then become addicted to playing, causing social, academic and emotional problems that may last well into adulthood” (Roberts, 2015). In other words, addiction to electronics may lead to depression and isolation, when there are other options for the relief these children need. By taking preventative measures and keeping a closer eye on screen time, the child will not be as prone to becoming more

George and Lydia will decide to call a psychologist. The psychologist David McClean will suggest them to turn off the room and the house, and leave. But before turning off the nursery the children asked their pa rents for one last nursery visit. After a few minutes the kids will call George and Lydia and when they will enter in the nursery to see what was happening the children will lock them in. It seems quite clear that the children are more connected to the house than they are their own parents. At this moment we understand that besides the African setting, George and Lydia find personal recreations of their belongings in the nursery.

One would be the happylife home where Hadley family resided in. In the beginning of the story, Bradbury states, "This house which clothe and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them."The house took care of everything for the family. None of the family members barely knew how to do anything. Another threat would be the parents spoiling their kids. On page 6, it states, "We've given everything to our children everything they wanted." When George Hadley threatened to shut the house and all the machines down, the kids would have listened to them if they weren't spoiled. This is supported by the psychiatrist who states, "Where before they had a Santa Claus, now they have a Scrooge" . The most dangerous component of The Veldt is the nursery. The psychiatrist tells George on page 8,"You've let [the nursery] and this house replace you and your wife in your children's affections." When George tried to close the nursery down, the children felt like their father was killing their "parents". One will feel mad and upset if they've witnessed their parents death. That's how to children felt, which led to their thoughts of killing. Another way that the nursery is dangerous is that any thought thought long enough, it will become reality. This occurred when the children imagined lions eating and killing their parents. The lions became real and in fact, did eat their

In the story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury the kids Peter and Wendy tried feeding their parents, George and Lydia to the lions in their nursery because they chose technology over their parents.

To support the theme that technology causes people to make unsound decisions when it’s not limited, Bradbury uses the element of characterization so that the reader can get a clue on the people advanced technology is turning the children into. A clear illustration of this is when Peter and George are having a conversation, ‘“oh, I hate you! “Insults won’t get you anywhere” “i wish you were dead!”’(bradbury 7) proving to readers he has a violent temper. Their advanced technology has replaced George and Lydias’ existance, Peter and wendy see no use for their parents. Peter doesn’t think about the things he says and won’t think about the actions he makes either. Nicholas Carrs’ main idea in the nonfiction article is to warn people people about how damaging their cell phones can be to their mentality. Homosapians need to appreciate the relationships we have in the real world. Bradbury highlights how the overuse of privileges can cause people to make unhealthy decisions about important aspects of their

In “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, the parents, George and Lydia are at fault for their own death because they didn’t decrease the screen time for their kids Wendy, and Peter earlier in their lives. Which could have gotten them addicted over time. I also found this website named “Limiting screen time for kids.” And that website tells me that as a child grows a parent will need to decide how much media to let your child use each day, also, what websites are appropriate for them. In the story it states that the children were sobbing and screaming when their parents took away their technology, this caused the kids to get mad. This other website “Technology Addiction” states that “Technology addiction, sometimes called internet addiction, or Internet Use Disorder is a fairly new phenomenon in the world.” Peter told his dad to call a psychologist to fix the nursery room when they don’t need it. Usually kids don’t call a psychiatrist so this proves that the kids were addicted to technology.

In ¨The Veldt¨ by Ray Bradbury the parents, George and Lydia are at fault for their own deaths, because they did not limit their kids screen time which made the kids spoiled. Also the parents didn't spend time with their kids, which made the family more spread out and not close.

Children from two years old to the age of ten years old can be effected in a negative way. Sometimes parents give their children a tablet or their cell phone to entertain them while they try and get something important done. Sometimes they are out in public and their child is being too loud so they pull out the phone and let them watch T.V. on it so they can become quiet. The American Academy of Pediatrics explains, “Screens are distractions, not tools to soothe children. Television is not a “babysitter,” so parents should enforce rules about media use” (Roman). From the start of a child 's life parents should be careful about letting kids have the ability to watch too much tv or spend too much time staring at any type of technology. Parents tend to use their technology to keep

Nevertheless with all great technology there has to be some weighty drawbacks. Human relationships is irreplaceable, but that's exactly what the house is doing to the Hadley’s as Lydia Hadley says “ The house is wife and mother now and nursemaid……..Can I give a bath and scrub the children as efficiently or quickly as the automatic scrub bath can” (Bradbury). The children, Peter and Wendy, do not need their mother anymore and it is tearing Lydia apart so much she wants a vacation away from the house that she and her husband bought so they wouldn’t have to do anything. The nursery has crystal walls that play images controlled by the user’s mind. When the parents, George and Lydia, go into the nursery and see Africa everything becomes realistic and they can feel the sun, smell the grass, etc.

The second reason why modern technology contributes to negative health problems is that children independently use technology, which impact on their social development and relationship. As the age of the kids, the majority of them still cannot control or understand how to limit themselves from their wants. Some children spend so much time playing computer and video games all alone that they are losing their ability to socialize with others, families and friends. Children can averagely spend six hours each day watching television or