A Child Without A Parental Figure In The Veldt, By Ray Bradbury

In the short story “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury illustrates what is to come to a child without the proper guidance from their parental figures. The lack of parental guidance in the story is brought about by the machinery and technology that relieves the parents and children from daily chores and abilities that may seem tiresome, such as making dinner, cleaning the house and even tying their shoes. As they are relying on this technology, the parents are slowly beginning to lose their purpose as a parental figure in the children’s lives and are transferring their responsibilities to the technology to parent the children for them, leaving them to forget about what a parent’s main purpose is--teaching them lessons that will make them understand right