Compare And Contrast Zero Hour And The Veldt

In the stories, from The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, “Zero Hour” and “The Veldt,” both convey the importance of parent child relationships. In both stories, the kids have too much freedom. In “The Veldt,” the Peter and Wendy can get away with whatever they want and the parents don’t care. In “Zero Hour,” Mink’s mother lets her take her best dishes and tools to play in the yard. Mink’s parents know the game she is playing and even though it is not a game appropriate for kids, they don’t stop her. The parents don’t realize what their kids have gotten themselves into before it’s a problem a problem. In “The Veldt”, Peter and Wendy have realized that their parents are too caught up in their own lives and take advantage of that. As said in the story, the technology in their house has taken over as the “parent” figure for the kids.
Both sets of parents believe that their children are just making things up and that their children are innocent. By the time they realize, it’s too late. In “The Veldt,” when the parents originally shut off the room they were making the right decision, but the kids didn’t want them to shut the room off, so they made sure that the parents wouldn’t shut it off again. In “Zero Hour,” Mink doesn’t do anything wrong because she tells her mom everything, her mom just doesn’t believe her and thinks she is playing around. When Mink’s mother realizes that she wasn’t making up the game, she freaks out, grabs her husband, and runs to the attic. In both stories, the kids know how to manipulate their parents, because they don’t have good relationships with