Characters & Setting
Happylife Home
Who Said It?
Happylife Home Part 2
Miscellaneous
Plot Points
Misc
VOCAB
100
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
100
The house did everything for the Hadley's. This is one thing the house did for them.
What is cooked, cleaned, and rocked them to sleep
100

"Come on, room!  I demand Aladdin?"

Who is George Hadley

100

This is how much the HappyLife home cost the Hadleys

What is $30,000

100
What happened to George and Lydia Hadley
What is the lions ate them
100

What part of the story?

The door locked the parents inside the nursery (veldt) with the hungry lions

Climax

100

What does the statement - Children are like carpets, they need to be stepped on very once in a while - mean?

Children need limits, discipline, boundaries.  Essentially, they should know their place. 

100
Crystalline

Clear, sparkly

200
I was very afraid of our Happylife Home. It felt too real.
Who is Lydia Hadley
200
Inside this home was a place the children loved to play. The walls were two-dimensional and whatever the children thought would appear.
What is the nursery
200

"I don't think you'd better consider it anymore, Father!"

Who is Peter

200

This literary element is displayed in the following passage:   "Wendy and Peter were coming in the front door, cheeks like peppermint candy, eyes like bright blue agate marbles, a smell of ozone on their jumpers from their trip in the helicopter."

What is characterization OR imagery OR simile 

200
George was concerned because his children were having these kind of thoughts.
What is death thoughts
200

What part of the story

Lydia and George have a casual conversation that he house has been overtaking their lives

Exposition

200

What is the main theme of the story?

Overuse of technology leads to the destruction of the family.

200

Emanates

To flow from 

300
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
300
This was the place where the children enjoyed playing the most. George Hadley felt his children spent too much time here.
What is the African Veldt
300

"Did you see, did you feel?  It's too real"

Who is Lydia Hadley

300

Lydia tells George to lock the nursery for a few days.  This is the reason he does not want to do this

What is Peter threw a tantrum

300
This literary element appears often in the story. It gives clues about what is going to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing
300

What part of the story

George and Lydia get more frustrated with their children's disrespect and refusal to turn off the nursery

Rising Action

300

What's the significance of the allusion to Peter Pan in the story?

There are many - 

The children don't want to grow up.  They refuse to live in the real world and prefer fantasy (Neverland).

Wendy is nurturing and follows Peter's lead. 

It's ironic that sweet (Peter Pan-like) children would trap and kill their parents.  



300

Abstractedly

Lost in thought - 

400
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
400
The type of animal that the African Veldt had a lot of. They stood looking at George and Lydia with terrible green-yellow eyes.
What is the lions
400

"Why, you'd starve tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen.  You wouldn't know how to tap an egg"

Who is David McClean

400

When George and Lydia first run out of the nursery, these are their reactions

Lydia is crying (terrified) and George is laughing (intrigued)

400

This is what is symbolic about David McClean's name

What is he cleans the minds of the children

400

What part of the story

Wendy offers Mr. McClean tea - (invites him to eat lunch inside the nursery)

Resolution

400

What's one example of foreshadowing from the story?

George tries to reformat the nursery but cannot.

Sounds of screams and roars.

Others?

400
Sensitize

Respond to a stimulus

500
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
500
Besides Africa, the nursery had many scenes that George Hadley used to experience.
What is Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin and his lamp, Dr. Doolittle, etc.
500

"A cup of tea?"

Who is Wendy

500
This is how much the nursery cost the Hadleys

What is $15,000

500

The author of this book

Who is Ray Bradbury

500

What part of the story

David McClean opens the door to the nursery and finds Peter and Wendy 

Falling Action

500

What's the tone of the story?

Cautionary - the story is like a warning about the dangers of technology reliance. 

500

Name one of the two words from our vocabulary list that are synonymous with the word create/form an idea

conjure or conceive

(Double points if you knew both)

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