LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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David will be eaten by the lions as well.
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Peter and Wendy will travel to Iowa with David.
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David will alert the authorities that George and Lydia have been murdered.
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George and Lydia will by a normal house next time.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The story ends with David McClean arriving to speak to the children. Wendy and Peter, who are drinking tea while seated in the nursery, which is now displaying a serene scene, tell him their parents will be here soon. But the vultures flying overhead suggest that the parents have been devoured by the lions.
Detailed explanation-2: -In “The Veldt, ” Mr. and Mrs. Hadley are killed and consumed by the lions in their children’s virtual nursery. In the nursery, the children have practiced having the lions kill their parents to manage their anger at them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The lions, brought to life by the house’s holographic nursery, represent the children’s hidden violent desires. As the nursery draws its imagery from their thoughts, the lions continually hunt and eat animals that the parents fail in time to realize are facsimiles of themselves.
Detailed explanation-4: -He finds the children enjoying lunch in the nursery and sees the lions and vultures eating carcasses in the distance, which are implied to be the parents.