The Veldt

I was assigned a reading from Ray Bradbury titled "The Veldt" it was about a family of four. The family consisted of a husband, wife, and two children a boy and a girl. This family lives in a very high tech house that literally can do everything for them. This house can cut their food and gets the ketchup and even tie their shoes. This home has a room called the nursery and what this room can do is virtually create anything that comes to your mind. It's literally a room that if you can think it and create it in your head it can come to life. The parents start noticing what the room is doing and they believe they are spoiling their kids too much and they came to a decision to shut the nursery down. So the parents decide to give a call to a psychologist to give them advice. Once the children find out what they parents are thinking of doing they get so furious and outraged that they lock their parents inside of the nursery and think of the unthinkable. They create a visual of the Veldt and of Lions and the parents are murdered by their own children.

This got me to think about technology and how its become so far advanced in our lifetime. Never would I think that someone could become so attached to some technology that they were willing to kill their own parents for it. Well maybe not that dramatic in real life. Although I have seen many children and teenagers throw serious tantrums when someone takes away their technology whether it be a cellphone, laptop, or tablet. I just hope that technology does not take us to a point where people are going to be killed over technology.