Answer and Explanation: Bradbury wrote “The Veldt” to warn against the ways in which over-reliance on technology could threaten our families and lives. The family struggle over technology displays the threat that Bradbury sees in people giving up too much control of their lives to outside technology.

The short story “The Veldt” describes a couple who got more than they bargained for when they bought fancy technology for their nursery. Like many Bradbury stories, it can be interpreted as a cautionary tale about over-reliance on technology.

The main message of “The Veldt” concerns the dangers of becoming too reliant on technology and the consequences attached to not disciplining children. George and Lydia Hadley purchase an expensive, technologically advanced Happylife Home in hopes of making their lives easier.

Death of the Family. On the most basic level, “The Veldt” is about a family going through the typical problems that arise in family life. George and Lydia are parents who spoil their children, and then try to discipline them by taking away the toys they originally spoiled them with.

The veldt, with its punishing heat and its menacing lions and vultures, represents the reality of human existence and human nature. The veldt shows us that human existence hasn’t really changed since its inception; we are cruel savages by nature, and despite the advances of technology, we remain so.

The irony in “The Veldt” is that the family has automated factors added to their house in order to simplify and ease their lives so that they have more time to spend with each other. However, instead of bringing the family together, they become estranged from one another.

The basic reason behind Wendy and Peter wanting to get rid of their parents is that, being children, Wendy and Peter have already been given an unnecessarily significant amount of freedom. Hence, their imagination had already pre-conceived a world without their parents, where they could be free to do as they wish.

In “The Veldt,” Bradbury may have used the virtual lions to kill the parents to emphasize the serious dangers of technology. In much of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction, there is an underlying distrust of technology.

As soon as George and Wendy step into the nursery the kids shut the door, trapping them inside with the hungry lions. Both parents let out a scream from fright, and suddenly realize why the screams sounded familiar. The nursery has the ability to display a the emotions/thoughts of their kids on a veldt.

What is one specific way the Hadley’s continued to spoil their children even after they realized that there was something wrong with the nursery? “They’ve broken into the nursery.” Even though the children have broken into the nursery when their parents locked it, there was no punishment for them.

The psychologist tells them nursery should be shut down. George threatens his children that he will shut down the nursery. He goes through with his threat finally. What is the Climax of the story?

Peter and Wendy killed their parents, George and Lydia, when they locked them in the nursery with the lions in the African veldt hologram that has mysteriously become real instead of just the imaginings of the children. It is a violent place where the children see lions stalk and kill their prey.

Hadley reflect on after they left the nursery? He worries that his children started thinking about death at an early age. He is proud that his children are mature enough to think about death. He worries that his children have an unhealthy obsession with death.

Lydia is George’s wife. She is the first to perceive the negative effects of the Happylife Home, and wishes she once again had a “purpose”, which she feels the fully-automated house has stolen from her. She is also genuinely frightened by the realistic power of the nursery.

Suddenly, the nursery comes to life as hungry lions steadily approach George and Lydia. The lions end up killing and eating George and Lydia Hadley at the end of the story, and David McClean witnesses the lions feasting on them as Wendy and Peter enjoy a picnic lunch nearby.

The two bloody objects that are found in the nursery in Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt” are a wallet and a scarf. The wallet belongs to the father of the family in the story, George Hadley.

The nursery is a double-edged sword: it symbolizes the incredible possibility that technology presents, but also the danger of using technology for sheer pleasure, of getting carried away by its power, and of ultimately choosing technology over humanity.

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As becomes evident later, this wallet is there because the children have placed it there. Later, George and the psychologist he has brought in find a bloody scarf of Lydia’s on the veldt. These are examples of the literary device of foreshadowing, or setting up what is to transpire later.

The parents hear two screams, and Lydia says the screams sound familiar. She and George are so nervous that they have trouble falling asleep even though their beds are rocking them to sleep (150). Hey, can Shmoop get one of those? Later, George and Peter talk about the nursery.

Although he says that George and Lydia have spoiled their children, David McClean also says that by punishing their children, George and Lydia have changed from “Santa Claus” to “Scrooge.” He criticizes them for this, remarking, unhelpfully, that “Children prefer Santa.” The fact that he seems to contradict himself.

George Hadley George is the man who has to make the big decision about the nursery. We hear how he thinks about this world, and we watch him make this crucial decision, and that’s what makes him the protagonist.

Why did the parents find their wallet and scarf in the Veldt land? The children placed the objects there so the lion could get the scent of George and Lydia.

What do you think will happen to Mr. McClean? They will take over the house and take advantage of all the technology.

In the story “The Veldt” the main conflict is Human vs. Human, or the kids vs. The parents. The parents become worried that the kids are spending to much time in the nursery.