The Veldt: Do We Take Responsibility For The Family

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How do we take responsibility for ourselves or others? In the short story, “The Veldt”, the house takes responsibility for the family and not the parents. Since they let this happen, the children ended up disobeying them and the parents need to learn from that in order to keep control and restore balance into their life. In the end, it is the parent’s faults that they let their control slowly slip away and let the children have freedom in the nursery. Since they let their responsibility go, the house replaced the parents which made the children feel that the house is their parents. Also, with the amount of technology they have, they rely on technology too much which became other human contact. With that being said, technology doing everything for you is not great but to an extent it is fine. In the short story, “The Veldt”, the house takes responsibility for the family and the children feel that the house is their parents. The children rely on their technology that is available for them instead of their parents. The room and the house replaced their parents, when the parents let the house do everything for them. These are all ways in which the house replaces their parents and takes responsibility for the family. After the father lets them play in the nursery for a final time in the end, they call them Mommy and…show more content…
Some may take it upon their hands while others will shy away and let the question, “Whose responsible?” be left unanswered. Those who take responsibility will learn more directly from the mistakes they made and correct them next time they do that same piece. The people who shy away will learn another way eventually and it could be too late for them to correct it and move on. That is just what happened in “The Veldt”. The parents could not fully correct their mistakes in the end which made the house replace the parents. If you are not responsible for yourself, how can you be responsible for

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