Show:
Theme
Character
Plot
Society
Potpourri
100
What is one theme from the story, the Veldt?
Technology, Family, Versions of Reality
100
They don’t like them for it and argue with them to try to keep the Nursery.
How do Wendy and Peter feel about their parents decision on the nursery?
100
The Nursery.
What did the kids play in?
100
So that they don’t have to do any work, they leave it to the technology to do the work for them.
Why does the family buy the house they bought?
100
A lion eating their parents.
What is the children’s vision in the simulated nursery, towards the end?
200
very techno, so techno it leads the children to kill because it has taken over their minds
How is this theme a dystopian?
200
She starts to smoke too much, she feels like she isn’t a mother anymore.
Why does Lydia feel as if she isn’t a mom anymore?
200
They get locked in the nursery and get eaten by the lions.
How do the parents die?
200
Those who are like the Hadley family probably allowed the technology to take over as well.
Based on how the Hadley family acts, how do you think the rest of society acts?
200
It becomes nothing since the house does all the things she used to do
What happens to Lydia’s role as a wife and mother when she lives in the automated house?
300
parents and children don’t see eye to eye → severe children take over there is no parental control, no authority
How does the theme of family play in this story?
300
they get very aggressive, to an extreme extent beginning → complain about not wanting to get rid of the Nursery end → get so mad at their parents that they kill them
How do the children’s aggression progress? What do they do? (first-last)
300
David McClean a psychologist.
Who does George seek out (and what's his job) for help with the kids?
300
They feel like their parents are too controlling and because they won’t let them keep the Nursery. They feel as if they are being punished.
How do the protagonist(s) feel and who are they?
300
George closes the nursery, which was Wendy and Peter's virtual reality
What motivates Wendy and Peter’s anger?
400
variety of answers → world where communism takes over
If there was another world like the Hadley’s what would it be? (Not a techno dystopian)
400
He takes control over the decision to close the nursery, yet even the whole house to live naturally instead. He doesn’t say no to his children like Lydia does. He isn’t sensitive about the situation.
How does George try to be the dominant father in the story?
400
They say to turn off the nursery.
What does David McClean say the parents need to do to help the kids?
400
Technology is taking over, children are too controlled by technology. Children are brought up wrong. Need to be outside, not inside playing with technology.
What does the society in the story lead us to think about our society today, or what it can turn into?
400
Because the screams are their own
Why do the screams coming from the Veldt sound so familiar to George and Lydia?
500
The Nursery → gives children power and control
What are some symbols that can connect to the theme?
500
They can create whatever they want, what they think pops up. It’s like their playground, but instead a magical room.
Why is it that the children like the African Veldt so much?
500
A wallet.
What does George find in the lions den before he is dead?
500
soundproof Happylife Home: Nursery = crystal walls, house is clothed and fed rocked them to sleep, played and sang
What kind of house does the Hadley family live in? (3 examples) What is the house called?
500
The kids put it in there to give the lions their scent.
Why are George and Lydia's wallet and scarf in the Veldt?