Characters & Setting
I was the one who decided to turn off the house. I was the one who threw the switch that killed the nursery. My children were not happy.
Who is George Hadley?
These are examples of things the house did for the family, according to the text.
What is cooked, cleaned, and rocked them to sleep?
This is the personal item that Lydia finds shredded in the nursery.
What is her purse/bag?
In this part of the plot sequence, we find out the characters, time, and setting of the story.
What is the Exposition?
This is what happened to George and Lydia Hadley.
What is lions ate them?
I was very afraid of our Happylife Home. It felt too real.
Who is Lydia Hadley?
This was a place the children loved to play, where the walls were virtual reality and whatever the children thought would appear.
What is the nursery?
This is what George and Lydia have done for their kids, according to the therapist, David McClean.
What is nothing?
This is how everything "wraps up" at the end of the story.
What is the resolution?
This is how technology makes Lydia feel as a mother.
What is useless?
We were in hysterics when our father turned off the nursery. We screamed and pranced and threw things. We even yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped at the furniture.
Who is Wendy and Peter?
This was the setting where the children enjoyed playing the most. George Hadley felt his children spent too much time here.
What is the African Veldt?
Who is Wendy, Peter, and the house?
This is the most intense and exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
This is a literary element that appears often in the story. It gives clues about what is going to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
I am the psychologist. I gave George the advice to tear down the whole room and to bring his children to me every day during the next year for treatment.
Who is David McClean?
The animals that stood looking at George and Lydia with terrible green-yellow eyes, according to the text.
What are lions?
This was one conflict within the story between people. _____ vs _______.
What is Children versus Parents?
Problems begin to happen in this part of the plot sequence.
What is the rising action?
After being eaten by lions, this clue was left in the nursery.
What is blood?
This place clothed and fed and rocked the Hadley's to sleep. It replaced George and Lydia and became the children's mother and father. This place did everything for the Hadley's.
What is Happylife Home?
Besides Africa, the nursery had one scene that George Hadley really wanted to experience.
What is Aladdin?
This was another conflict within the story between people and objects. ______ vs _______.
What is Humans versus Technology?
Problems begin to be solved in this part of the plot sequence
What is the falling action?
The author of this story
Who is Ray Bradbury?