Author Ray Bradbury wrote stories about people and the way science and technology can benefit us in many ways, however – he seemed really afraid of the malevolent side where tech either turns on us or is used against us. In Bradbury’s short stories The Veldt, There will come soft rains, and The Murderer, they all have a common theme where technology has a very twisted way of intersecting with humans: a nightmare come to life, life-ending technology and resisting technology. Instead of writing about fantastic, futuristic scenarios, Bradbury creates world and characters that the reader can imagine living in and relating to – which makes their stories so scary. In The Veldt, the story is about the family’s relationship with each other and the way technology interferes with these relationships. For example, George and Lydia Hadley and their two children, Wendy and Peter, are all crippled by technology; they don’t function on their own any more. George and Lydia bought an expensive house that cooks, cleans and even ties their …show more content…
Like The Veldt, this house cooked and cleaned, and did pretty much everything for the family, even after they were gone. An early clue about what happened to the family was the description of the house standing ‘alone in a city of rubble and ashes,” along with “…a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.” The only evidence of the family was the shadows burned into the side of the house by a nuclear blast. The house thoughtlessly continues along, making meals, cleaning and reminding for people who no longer exist. Technology was what ended the humans and the house survived without them. Ironically, the end of the house wasn’t because of technology – but the opposite – nature. A branch crashed through the roof, and causes a fire, which destroys the