Dreams and the Veldt

This weeks' reading, The Word for World is Forest, immediately reminded me of Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt." In the Veldt, a family is the near-distant future of Earth live in a super-tech house, which contains the Veldt. This room in their house allows the children;s imaginations to become a pseudo reality. It is so real, that if the parents walk into this room during their children's "dreams" they do not realize it is not real. This is very similar to the creechie people's dreaming because the trained men are able to manipulate their dreams, just as the children in the Veldt are able to. The main difference between the creechies and the children in the Veldt is that the children use their imaginary world to kill their parents, while the creechies, before the yumans arrived, were peaceful in their dreaming, and would never dream of harming any sort of humanlike creature. This brings out the view the creeechies have, again, of the yumans as vile and cruel for doing harm to one another, because the children in the Veldt kill their parents for trying to take the Veldt away when it becomes apparent that the Veldt is sucking them out of reality. in both cases, the y/humans are too selfish to have humanity and are violent to those who do not deserve it.