Technology In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

Imagine living in a house that literally does everything for you. You don’t have to worry about cooking, watching your kids, cleaning, or ever running out of things to do. The parents in this story have allowed their house to do everything for these children for their whole lives. Once it’s time to let the house go all family members don’t know how to act towards each other since they’ve all been separated by the technology the have in their home. From reading the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, you could easily see that technology has pulled people away from the things that are really important, and they don’t realize how important those things are until they are gone.
Everyone wants the newer and better electronics, so the more
While reading “The Veldt” I came upon a paragraph that showed that these people were so fascinated by technology that they didn’t even realize what was actually going on. The character says “And here were the lions now. fifteen feet away. so real. so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand. and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated belts. and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry. the yellows of lions and summer grass. and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide. and the smell of meat from the panting. dripping mouths.” Another example that I came by was “You mean you want to fry my eggs for me?” and “Can I give a bath and scrub the children as efficiently or quickly as the automatic scrub bath can? I cannot” This shows that the mother is clueless on how to give her own child a bath and that she doesn't know how to do the easiest things such as cooking. The technology that this family owns is basically their family, but it’s pulling them away from each other and has been distracting this family from the little things that makes a family feel like
Ray Bradbury uses short sentences, similes, metaphors, and long sentences to get the message out that technology has had a huge impact on the decisions we make on a daily basis. It has pulled people away from the things that are most important and they don’t realize how important those things are until they are gone. Not only can technology take over a person but it can’t teach people what to do in real life situations. And distracts us from actually doing something. With that being said have you’ve ever done something with technology that you wouldn’t be able to do in a real life