One piece of author’s craft that I think the author used intentionally is foreshadowing to get the reader predicting. This was used in many places, such as “‘What is that?’ she asked.
‘An old wallet of mine,’ he said. He showed it to her. The smell of hot grass was on it... and the smell of lion. It was wet from being in the lion’s mouth, there were tooth mark on it, and there was dried blood on both sides. He closed the door and locked it tight”. I think the author used this foreshadowing to get the reader predicting. The author wanted us to figure out that the Veldt was becoming so real that the lions actually got a hold of his wallet and could actually interact with human items, even though it was meant to be just a visual of the African Veldt. Many people would just skip over and not think about how the lions actually got a hold of his wallet, but I think Ray Bradbury really wanted us to get predicting that something was going to happen to this family because of the technology, the nursery specifically. He wanted us to be thinking of what was going to be happening next. I think the author wanted us to predict that something unexpected was going to happen Another piece of evidence the author used to get the
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This could get the reader predicting that it was probably humans screaming, making us wonder if the screams may have been real. It gets us to predict why was there screaming if the it was an African Veldt with animals. It makes us wonder if something else is going on than just watching animals in the Nursery. The parents didn’t think enough about how familiar those screams were, if they would have thought more maybe something tragic may not have happened. Also I think he wanted us to predict that those screams were more than just screams because the parents said that they were familiar, hinting that something was going