Similarities Between The Veldt And A Good Man Is Hard To Find

As seen through remarkable works of literature, characters with unstable morals and actions paired with a significant climax are essential to a great story. Many excellent works of this genre focus on the actions of these characters, which portray questionable morals and eventually lead to their own destruction. These types of characters appear in both short stories “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, being the parents in “The Veldt” and the Grandma in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. In both situations, the decisions of these characters made throughout the stories showed significant selfishness. The Grandma decided to sidetrack her whole family because she simply wanted to see a house and the

As a result, both characters had to face the consequences of their selfishness in a climatic ending to both stories, where the grandma’s family ended up being killed and the parents were locked in a room by their children and fed to the lions. Therefore, a theme portrayed through the short stories “The Veldt” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is that the easy way isn’t always the best way.
Considering how difficult life can be at times, people tend to take the easy road at every chance they get, despite the immoral consequences of their actions. The character in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” that made these type of decisions was the Grandma. She takes the easy way by lying in order to convince her family to sidetrack to a house that doesn’t exist, and then upon realizing that she was mistaken, causing a car crash. Upon recognizing this, she thinks “the thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up… the car turned over once and fell right-side-up in a gulch off the side of the road.” This describes the climatic event

The main characters in “The Veldt” who so prominently exhibited reckless decision-making were the parents. Their most significant decision concerning the wellness of their children was their choice to purchase a number of machines that would complete everyday tasks for their children such as tying their shoes, bathing them, and feeding them, leading them to become dependent on the machines rather than their parents. Therefore, their initial reaction to being told that the machines were being taken away was to be angry. Their son screams, “‘Don’t let them switch off the nursery and the house,’ he was saying. Mr. and Mrs. George Hadley beat at the door… Mr. and Mrs. Hadley screamed.” The children’s immediate reaction showed that the technology had a significant influence on them. The main responsibility of all parents is to think carefully about every decision regarding their children, which they failed to do when making this decision. As a result, the technology had a negative impact on the children, where they became so reliant on the technology to complete everyday activities that they would not to be able to function when they were turned off. Another character who displayed controversial morals and selfishness was the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. She lied multiple times throughout the short period