The Veldt

This short story is filled with commentary on the progression of technology and how dangerous it is. The veldt is a short story about two parents and two children who live in a mechanical house. The house does everything for them. They don't even know how to cook an egg, because the house does that for them, too. The main part of the story is the nursery, a room that comes to life. The room belongs to the children. Anything that they imagine appears right before their eyes. There seems to be something wrong with the nursery. Everything seems too real, and it won't go away. The setting is Africa, and there are fierce lions roaming about. Every so often, screams can be heard through the doors. The children are very spoiled. As the story progresses, we learn that the children care more about the house and their nursery than they do about their own parents, and, when their father threatens to lock up the nursery and turn the house off forever, the children kill their own parents by locking them in the nursery to be eaten by the lions. This story is very deep and disturbing. It represents the power of technology and how it has begun to supersede humans in importance and power.