The use of the nursery in “The Veldt” helps to strengthen the stories conflict. The father says, “Can I compete with an African veldt?” The veldt here is a symbol of how children can discard their parents for a piece of entertainment so easily. This demonstrates that the father believes the kids are throwing away their parents for the nursery, and the father is afraid he is losing his child to the nursery as well. It is too easy for us to throw away the ones who won’t be around forever for objects that we could live without. Since the nursery is coming between the kids and the …show more content…
“Just before he stepped inside, he heard a faraway scream.” This one specific scream keeps on occurring from the nursery in the story. This portrays that the scream is someone getting slain by the lions. This creates conflict because the parents don’t know what the kids are thinking of, or why they keep hearing the same familiar scream. It actually turns out that the kids are thinking up the idea of their parents getting eaten by the lions. This repetition of the scream relates to the idea that the kids and the parents have a bad relationship because of all the technology that is in between