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What is the family's last name?
Hadley
What is wrong with the nursery?
It won't change images (stuck on the veldt)
Name a theme that is present in the quote:
"This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents."
Family
Parenting
Technology
Name the device that is used in the quote:
"This house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them."
Personification (giving an object/idea human characteristics)
Subsided
How would you describe Peter and Wendy?
Spoiled, obsessive, disrespectful, etc.
What is the African veldt?
Grassland or prairie
Name the TYPE of conflict in the quote.
"The children were so upset that they couldn't control themselves. They shouted and cried and called them rude names..."
Person vs. Person
Name the device that is used in the quote:
"They looked so real...your mouth was filled with the dusty smell of their heated fur."
Imagery (uses the 5 senses)
The artist was completely _____________ in his subject.
Engrossed (absorbed)
Why does Lydia want to turn the house off?
She feels worthless or unnecessary
Name 3 futuristic devices in the house.
The nursery, the dining room table (cooks food), automatic lights, air tube (transports to next level of house), bed (rocks to sleep), voice clock, shoe cleaners, body washer, massager
Name the TYPE of conflict in the quote:
"The room has become a means of creating destructive thoughts, instead of helping to make them go away."
Person vs. Technology
The house is called a Happylife Home. How is this ironic?
The house doesn't bring happiness, it brings destruction and death
The student attempted to _________ the class to the environmental issues faced by many kangaroos.
sensitize (make aware)
What is Dr. McLean's advice?
Turn everything off and start new
What two items foreshadow the ending of the story?
Bloody wallet and bloody scarf
Name the TYPE of conflict in the quote.
"The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed. It felt like a mechanical cemetery."
Person vs. Technology
Name the device that is used in the quote:
"The house lights followed her like fireflies."
Simile (comparison using "like" or "as")
After their fight, he heard her footsteps ________ down the stairs.
Where does George plan on taking the family?
Iowa
How does the nursery's projection showcase Peter and Wendy's relationship with their parents?
They keep imagining George and Lydia being eaten by lions (destructive thoughts), so it highlights a negative or tense relationship
Name the TYPE of conflict in the quote.
"Death thoughts. They were awfully young, Wendy and Peter, for death thoughts. Or, no, you were never too young, really."
Person vs. Self
Name the device that is used in the quote:
"Where before they had a Santa Claus, now they have a Scrooge."
Allusion (a reference to a famous person, event, etc. that is generally well-known)
Because of the pricey tickets, our little ________ turned out to be very expensive.
Jaunt (excursion, short trip)