Technique (what is the technique used here)
the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air.
What is Simile
“Don’t let Father kill everything.”
What is Peter
The room that projects the kids immagination
What is the nursery
What is the clothing item found in the nursery that is torn and bloody. It is Lydias.
What is the Scarf
What does the veldt literally mean
an open grassland in southern Africa
this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them.
What is Personification
Why don’t we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?”
What is Lydia
The action that made the kids mad
What does George finds this personal item with saliva and drool on it
What is a wallet
What scavenger bird circles across the savanna scene
What are vultures
The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid.
What is Metaphor
“I want facts, not feelings.”
What is George
What is the name of the specific landscape that keeps returning
What is the African Veldt
The lions symbolize this about the children
What is the violent thoughts and desires
“Nothing ever likes to die — even a room.” What technique is this.
What is personification
How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr. Doolittle.
What is Allusion
"It's not Africa"
What is Wendy
Lydia asks George to call a specialist over to check on the kids
What is David McClean
The nursery symbolizes what about family and technology
What is technology replacing humans or human connection
On their getaway, where do George and Lydia plan to fly to. (US state)
What is Iowa
“We’ve given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward-secrecy, disobedience?”
What is Situational Irony
Where before they had a Santa Claus now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santas.
What is David McClean
This is the name of the home that does everything for the Haldeys
What is the Happylife Home
At the end, the closed nursery symbolizes what about power
What is the parents loss of control, kids gain power
How much did it take to install the Happylife Home. (+/- 5000)
What is 30,000