Technology In The Story Of The Veldt

To begin, The Veldt presents technology as something that makes life too easy. In fact, technology makes life so easy that it's not even really living anymore, the parents in the story brought the nursery room so that it helps their children, but then the children lived in an imaginary life and they were completely dependent on the nursery, they used it a lot and exceedingly and in a wrong way, they were not able to leave it as they were addicted to it. For example, when their parents were thinking of turning the whole house off for about a month. Peter did not like that and he started complaining. He said, ““that sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?”” This quotation shows his great concern and affection to the nursery room, he relies on it in everything he wants to do in his life even the basic thing in his day like brushing his own teeth and ties his own shoes, they do not do this thing that every child in the life should do and learn to do it on his own.

Furthermore, the technology started to destroy their relations between each other, they do not see each other a lot anymore and at the end, the story strongly implies that the children use the nursery to kill their parents so that can play more in the nursery room. The nursery has become their new mother and father, it grants them a frightening amount of power they are able to create anything they can imagine and it seemed for them as it's their parents. For instance, when George and Lydia were talking to each other, the mother was dismissive of her feelings towards the nursery room. She stated, ““I feel like I do not belong