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    Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

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    house, or they threaten to turn off the house, because the kids are abusing the use of their room the nursery. The kids get mad and throw a tantrum. They end up locking their parents in one of the rooms called the nursery where the kids think and it goes on the walls.…

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    stunning 4D technology of the nursery. “The Veldt” centers around the characters George, Lydia, and their children Peter and Wendy. This family lives in a home that does everything for them, including cleaning, cooking, bathing, caring for, and even rocking to sleep. It even has a room called the nursery that creates the characters’ wildest dreams into reality or as close to reality as possible. Every time there is trouble or a problem they turn to the house or nursery for assistance rather than…

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    family from the future. In this story the family owns robots who do everything for them, even tying their shoes! The two children, Wendy and Peter, have a nursery where anything they could ever imagine comes to life off the walls. Wendy and Peter’s parents shut the nursery down along with the robots after hearing screaming coming from the nursery every night. The two children were not happy with their parents’ decision and started throwing a tantrum. “The two children were in hysterics. They…

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    personification. One example is, “the walls began to purr and recede.” Although walls can not do this, Ray Bradbury uses it in his story to show how much technology the family living in the Happy Home have given to their children. They created a nursery that is all technology and can only work with the children’s imagination. This starts to cause brain damage to them when they…

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    Silence. You look into the nursery and find nothing. Blank, 2-D walls surround you. Taking a step into the nursery the landscape automatically changes. Now, it seems, you’re surrounded by an African veldt. So meticulously detailed that all the colors are perfected, and every last pebble and stick is in pristine position. Imagery, in most stories, is used so that the reader can understand the setting, and predict what might happen. In Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Veldt”, Bradbury uses imagery…

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    family are very spoiled and have almost everything at their command. George and Lydia Hadley’s children have a nursery that changes its environment into anything they want at the action of their voice, and George and Lydia have robotic maids to do anything they want. But too much technology can turn a family crazy, which is what happened to the Hadleys. The children took advantage of the Nursery by turning it into a dangerous Africa and the parents were being pampered more than needed and began…

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    Similes In The Veldt

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    parents may not have known that spoiling the children was actually building up power to the children. If the kids didn’t get their way, they would show hatred towards the parents. For example, when George turns off the nursery, the children say, “You can’t do that to the nursery,” almost as if the children knew they were in charge, and could get their parents to do whatever they wanted. While some might say that children should get what they want and have some power, this evidence shows that…

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    messed with the nursery when it was at Africa and switch to the forest the when the kids got won’t let them in the nursery and close it since they thought it was not working right.”There was a green, lovely forest, a lovely river, a purple mountain, high voices singing, and Rima, lovely and mysterious, lurking in the trees with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair. The African veldtland was gone.” This explains that the nursery is not…

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    “The Veldt” is a story about a advanced technology created to make a house that does everything for them but also makes a special kind of nursery made to give a super realistic view of anything that comes to their imagination but one day the kids think of a dangerous veldt in Africa with viscous lions but in doing so the nursery gets stuck on this illusion and becomes a threat to the kids and the whole family forcing the parents to take action to protect the kids. “The Lottery” is a story about…

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    Analysis Of The Veldt

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    asked the children about the African veldt in the nursery, “‘Yes, come tell us about the nursery," said George Hadley. The brother and sister winked at him and then at each other. "Nursery?" "All about Africa and everything," said the father with false joviality. "I don't understand," said Peter. "Your mother and I were just traveling through Africa with rod and reel; Tom Swift and his Electric Lion," said George Hadley. "There's no Africa in the nursery," said Peter simply. "Oh, come now,…

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