LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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see into Lydia & George Hadley’s mind and reveal their fear of the nursery & the lions.
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occasionally hear only Lydia Hadley’s thoughts about her children’s obsession with the veldt & the nursery
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see the story through the eyes of Peter and Wendy, as they narrate their discontent with their parents.
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only observe the action of the story and infer what the characters are thinking and feeling.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the story, “The Veldt” author, Ray Bradbury, writes the story in third person using limited omniscient.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lydia spends most of this story worrying about the nursery: she’s “tense” about Africa (22), she’s worried that the lions might get out (60), she worries that Peter changed the nursery somehow (89).
Detailed explanation-3: -In “The Veldt, ” Bradbury’s purpose as an author is to show the dangers that are inherent in letting technology have a foothold in our lives. Bradbury achieves this purpose through exaggerating the tensions among the Hadley family.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lydia is George’s wife. She is the first to perceive the negative effects of the Happylife Home, and wishes she once again had a “purpose”, which she feels the fully-automated house has stolen from her. She is also genuinely frightened by the realistic power of the nursery.