CHARACTERS
This pair of children becomes obsessed with the African veldt simulation.
Who are Peter and Wendy Hadley?
The name of the room where the children create realistic environments with their imagination.
What is the nursery?
George and Lydia want to shut down the nursery because the children won't stop imagining this violent scene.
What is the lions eating something in the veldt?
This theme shows that how technology can weaken relationships within a family.
What is technology replacing parents?
These animals symbolize the children's growing violence.
What are lions?
The father who grows worried about the nursery's effects on his children.
Who is George Hadley?
The home the family lives in where it does everything for them, like tying shoes and cooking meals.
What is the Happylife Home?
The parents decided to take this away from the children, causing them to throw tantrums.
What is privileges to the nursery?
The story warns that children can become dangerous if parents do not set these.
What are boundaries?
This hot and violent landscape symbolizes the emotional tension of the Hadley family.
What is the African veldt?
She is the mother who senses something wrong with the nursery and wanted a break from technology.
Who is Lydia Hadley?
The children's favorite simulation that becomes dangerous.
What is the African veldt?
At the end of the story, Dr. McClean discovers that the children have done this to their parents.
What is they had the lions kill them?
The children's relationship to the nursery represents this type of unhealthy dependence.
What is addiction?
The nursery symbolizes this large idea about technology.
What is technology becoming too powerful?
He is the psychologist who advises the family to shut down the nursery.
What is a forest?
The bloody items that belonged to George and Lydia were these items.
What is a wallet and scarf?
This theme shows how imagination without control can be harmful.
The house doing everything for the children symbolizes this negative effect on them.
What is laziness?
The animals that appear in the veldt. (NAME ALL)
The screams the parents hear in the nursery where these people's screams.
Who are George and Lydia?
The psychologist classified these kids as something, which explains their behavior.
What is spoiled?
Bradbury uses the African veldt as the setting to create a metaphor that correlates this trait with the children.
What is savagery?
The bloody items found in the nursery foreshadowed this event.