The Veldt (1950) by Ray Bradbury is about a family that depended on technology for their whole lives. They have been spoiling their children Peter and Wendy all their lives. They live in a house that does everything for them with a built in nursery that turns everything you imagine into reality. This perfect life style turns upside down when the kids and the nursery start changing. Wendy and Peter become disobedient and disrespectful .The scenes in the nursery change from Peter Pan to scenes of lions feasting on a hot burning day in Africa. Running out of options they call their psychologist. He tells them that the children have grown hate for them because they are not getting everything they want anymore. Taking his suggestion on shutting the house down and going for vacation they pack top leave in the morning. With cunning and devious ways Peter and Wendy get their parents insider the nursery and they lock them inside the nursery to feed them to the lions. The theme of this story is technology has the potential to undermine authority/morality. This relates to society because technology has been expanding nowadays and it’s become something we can’t live without. For example in a class when there is a teacher explaining a lesson student would be texting, listening to iPods, on facebook and twitter. Even though the rules clearly state that you are not allowed to have those things in class students don’t listen because having their phone with them seems more important than listening to teachers. The three selected texts that i will be exploring are a movie, image and an article.
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