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Book Report On The Veldt

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Former governor Mitt Romney once said “Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” The Veldt by Ray Bradbury is a story about parents who didn’t take enough responsibility. The story started in the Happy Life Home where parents George and Lydia and their kids Peter and Wendy lived. Protagonists George and Lydia wanted to do everything for their kids and spent a lot of money on a special nursery room. This nursery was made to change into the location the kids want to be in during that moment of time. One day, George and Lydia walked into the nursery while the children were gone and saw that the nursery was in hot Africa, where the children had left it. Hot Africa made George and Lydia feel like they were in the heat of Africa and they heard screaming and lions. This setting in the nursery made them have a weird feeling about what their children were doing in there all day. When Peter and Wendy return home and are asked about the nursery, Wendy changes the nursery to hide the hot Africa and they lie and say they don 't know what hot Africa is. George and Lydia talk to their psychologist and he recommends that they should get out of the house because it had something wrong with it. George and Lydia wanted to go through with what the doctor said but when George locked the kids out of the nursery, they break in. George shuts the house off and the children freak out but he has no control over them so he lets them back in. The children had started planning to kill their parents when they started taking things away from them and one day they go through with it and the parents die. …show more content…

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