Think back over the story "The Veldt." What do you suppose is Bradbury's opinion of children? Of humanity? Provide at least one line of text that...

Bradbury seems to
conceive of children as very intelligent, capable, and potentially manipulative creatures. Wendy
and Peter Hadley, the children of George and Lydia Hadley, have manipulated the nursery in their
Happylife Home in ways which their parents really cannot conceive. George continues to insist
that the lions it generates on its walls are not real and cannot really hurt them, though the
children have obviously figured out how to bring the creatures to real life and to get the
beasts to do their bidding.

The children are likewise adept at manipulating
their parents. Of Peter, George says, "You know how difficult Peter is...When I punished
him a month ago by locking the nursery for even a few hours -- the tantrum he threw! And Wendy
too. They live for the nursery." Bradbury seems to feel that we often underestimate
children to our own detriment.

Adults in the story really do not want to have
to do much. George and Lydia discuss the fact that they "bought this house, so [they]
wouldn't have to do anything." Lydia feels that the house is the "wife and mother now,
and nursemaid." She feels obsolete, unnecessary, and without purpose. She wanted a life of
easethe very reason one would buy a Happylife Homebut now that she has it, she is dissatisfied
with it.

This also shows that, for humanity, we often think the grass is
greener on the other side; in other words, we want what we don't have, but when we get it, it no
longer seems as desirable as it did before we got it.