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This is the reason George and Lydia feel justified in building a nursery that costs 1.5x as much as the rest of their house.
Nothing is too good for their children.
These are the two bloody items George and Lydia find on the nursery floor.
George's wallet and Lydia's scarf
This is what the lions are seen doing each time George and/or Lydia enter the nursery.
Eating/Walking Toward Them
Besides lions, this is the other animal that appears in the veldt.
Vultures
This is a landscape of open, rural grassland in Southern Africa.
Veldt
This adjective best describes how the SmartHome's efficiency makes George and Lydia feel, especially in their roles as parents.
Useless/Unnecessary
Unsurprisingly, child psychologist David McClean tells George and Lydia that they thoroughly messed up their children - they gave Peter and Wendy everything they ever wanted in terms of material desires, but they failed to give them this in the process.
George and Lydia hear screaming from the nursery a handful of times throughout the story. This ominous adjective best describes the way these screams sound to Mr. and Mrs. Hadley.
Familiar
This is the most reasonable explanation for why Peter and Wendy were able to murder their mother and father without a hint of sorrow or remorse.
Early in the story, George notes that he had been hearing lions in the nursery for at least a month, but didn't do anything about it because he had been "busy." Given what we know about his lifestyle, George's explanation is an example of this element of satire.
Irony
Rima/A Green, Lovely Forest
At two points in the story, George and Lydia tell the kids (just Peter the first time, and both Peter and Wendy the second) that they are planning to shut off the nursery. On both occasions, after the kids throw a tantrum, George ends up telling them to go to this place.
A proper parenthetical citation from a story such as "The Veldt" includes these two pieces of information.
The author's last name and the page number
This one word, starting with the letter T, describes the way Peter and Wendy control the scenes in the nursery.
Telepathically
"The Veldt" is a satirical story, meaning it was written to mock certain aspects of real life. With this in mind, what kind of person is author Ray Bradbury's main target of ridicule in this story?
Inattentive parents/parents who spoil their children
How much money (not adjusted for inflation) did the Hadleys spend on their home and the nursery combined.
$75,000
Peter and Wendy (who are the same age) are this old.
10
Complete David McClean's statement to George: "You'll have to change your life...you'd starve tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn't know how to tap a/an ________.
Egg
A person inside the nursery will experience realistic sensations of _______ as a result of the room's odorophonics technology.
Smell
Lydia's frustration in asking "We've given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward - secrecy, not doing what we tell them?" is ironic for this reason.
Because George and Lydia give the kids everything they want, Peter and Wendy know that they can lie and disobey their parents without consequence.
This is the item the SmartHome forgets to give the Hadleys when they are eating dinner.
Ketchup
Apart from issues involving the nursery, Peter and Wendy started hating George because he would not let them take this to New York.
The Rocket
Iowa
At the story's conclusion, Dr. McClean walks into the nursery and finds Wendy and Peter enjoying a picnic in the veldt. Wendy invites McClean to join them by asking if he would like a _______ of _______.
A cup of tea
This is the method Peter and Wendy use to quickly transport from the nursery to their bedrooms.
They are sucked up through a flue (tube) in the "air closet."