The Veldt: The Bond Between Parents And Their Children

According to an American novelist Richard Bach, he stated “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” It explains the bonds between the parents and their children are important that needs to be nurtured with effort and time or major problems may occur and bonds may weaken within the family. With the Hadley family, the relationship between the children, Peter and Wendy, and their biological parents, George and Lydia are weak because the communication structure between them is non-existent. The family relies too much on their home that automatically takes care of them and their nursery that telepathically shows the children’s thought. Ray Bradbury, the author of “The Veldt” explains George and Lydia give no boundaries to their children that results to spoiling them such as denying letting them go to New York and the threat of turning off the nursery and the house itself forever that leads the children to dispose of them without remorse.
It was stated “They’ve been acting funny ever since you forbade them to take a rocket to New York a few months ago” (Bradbury). This is the first spark for the children having destructive thoughts of murdering their parents when they were denied to travel to New York with a rocket. In some way, this can be seen they are already spoiled too much, and it is a good indication that the Mr. and Mrs. Hadley do not give them limits or healthy boundaries, which is a part of good parenthood and communication as parent and child. Even though they are already replaced in most household responsibilities proper discipline would be the only thing they should have given because their Happy Life Home does not have that