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    This document provides questions about the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury. It asks the reader to analyze different characters, themes, technology's influence on family, and implications of the story's ending. The reader is asked to highlight details about each character, infer Lydia's feelings from crying over chores, discuss whether Bradbury's family/technology predictions were accurate, explain how the high-tech nursery works and what it reveals about the children, identify two theme concepts and write statements about them, analyze a quote about foreshadowing, and discuss implications of the children's answers and behavior at the end. The final two questions ask what may happen to Mr. McClean and to support the answer

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    This document provides questions about the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury. It asks the reader to analyze different characters, themes, technology's influence on family, and implications of the story's ending. The reader is asked to highlight details about each character, infer Lydia's feelings from crying over chores, discuss whether Bradbury's family/technology predictions were accurate, explain how the high-tech nursery works and what it reveals about the children, identify two theme concepts and write statements about them, analyze a quote about foreshadowing, and discuss implications of the children's answers and behavior at the end. The final two questions ask what may happen to Mr. McClean and to support the answer

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    This document provides questions about the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury. It asks the reader to analyze different characters, themes, technology's influence on family, and implications of the story's ending. The reader is asked to highlight details about each character, infer Lydia's feelings from crying over chores, discuss whether Bradbury's family/technology predictions were accurate, explain how the high-tech nursery works and what it reveals about the children, identify two theme concepts and write statements about them, analyze a quote about foreshadowing, and discuss implications of the children's answers and behavior at the end. The final two questions ask what may happen to Mr. McClean and to support the answer

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    This document provides questions about the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury. It asks the reader to analyze different characters, themes, technology's influence on family, and implications of the story's ending. The reader is asked to highlight details about each character, infer Lydia's feelings from crying over chores, discuss whether Bradbury's family/technology predictions were accurate, explain how the high-tech nursery works and what it reveals about the children, identify two theme concepts and write statements about them, analyze a quote about foreshadowing, and discuss implications of the children's answers and behavior at the end. The final two questions ask what may happen to Mr. McClean and to support the answer

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    The story explores the relationship between technology and family life, portraying how advanced technology could negatively impact parenting and child development if not properly monitored and regulated.

    George and Lydia are depicted as concerned parents struggling to understand and control their children's attachment to technology, while the children Peter and Wendy seem to prefer the virtual world to real family interactions.

    Bradbury predicted families in the future would become increasingly detached as children spent more time immersed in virtual worlds instead of engaging with parents. While technology has integrated deeply into modern life, families have not completely replaced human bonds with virtual ones.

    Veldt Questions

    1. Read back through the text and highlight information for each
    character in a different color. Then fold your paper in fourths. In each
    box write down descriptions of each of the characters from the story
    THEN answer a and b.
    George Lydia
    a. Based on the TEXT, what kind a. Based on the TEXT, what kind of
    of person/father is George? person/mother is Lydia? How do
    How do they interact/speak to they interact/speak to the other
    the other characters? characters?
    b. Quote that supports your b. Quote that supports your
    description. description.
    Wendy Peter
    a. Based on the TEXT, what kind a. Based on the TEXT, what kind of
    of person/daughter is Wendy? person/son is Peter? How do they
    How do they interact/speak to interact/speak to the other
    the other characters? characters?
    b. Quote that supports your b. Quote that supports your
    description. description.
    2. You mean you want to fry my eggs for me?
    Yes. She nodded.
    And mend my socks?
    Yes. She nodded again excitedly, with tears in her eyes.

    Why is Lydia crying in excitement when thinking


    of doing household chores? What can you infer
    about how she feels about herself as a wife and
    mother?
    3. The Veldt was published in 1951 and offers a
    view of what Bradbury predicted family life and
    technology would be like around the year 2000.
    Is it an accurate view? Why or why not?
    What predictions are correct? Incorrect?
    What does he leave out?
    What is his view/opinion of how
    Mothers/Fathers/Children are supposed to be/act?
    What is his opinion on what technology will do to
    families/children?
    5. Explain how the nursery operates.
    With this knowledge, explain why the screams Lydia
    hears sound so familiar and how this is possible.
    Why did they find the old wallet and scarf (old
    implies they no longer use them, so why would they
    suddenly appear here destroyed by lions?)
    What does this tell us about the character and
    personalities of the children?
    6. Identify 2 theme concepts for this story.
    Remember: concepts are one or two words for
    each not a sentence.
    7. For both concepts, write a
    theme statement. Remember:
    themes are what the author is
    saying about the concept or
    what we should learn from
    the story. These should be
    full, complete sentences.
    8. Read the passage that begins Am I on time? Said David
    McClean through Now Im feeling worried, said
    McClean.
    What is McCleans advice on how to handle the
    children?
    What can be seen as an example of foreshadowing?
    Provide the quote to support your answer.
    9. At the end of the story, the children are happily eating a picnic lunch.
    They tell McClean that their parents will be here directly
    What is implied by this answer?
    Who/what are the childrens parents/ how will they be
    there?
    In the video, why did the children call the parents by their
    names rather than Mom or Dad?
    How is the behavior of the children at the end unsettling?

    10. What do you think happens to Mr. McClean? How do you know?
    Explain your answer using evidence from the text.

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