The Veldt Conflict

“A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction story about a man named Eckels who hires a time travel company to take him on a hunting voyage in the stage of the dinosaurs. The point of the story is that little details can make a big difference which leads to reminding us of an idea called the “Butterfly Effect”. "The Veldt" is a science fiction story which talks about the issues between reality and fantasy. In it, children Wendy and Peter Hadley spend all their time in a virtual reality chamber called the "nursery", which leads to in many ways, "The Veldt" being a story about two parents' failure to discipline their children. "All summer in a Day" is a science fiction story based on jealousy. Margot is a girl from Ohio who now lives on Venus. The jealousy is because out of all the kids in this class, she is the only one who remembers what the sun was like from when she lived on Earth until she was four, and which now they are all nine years old.

Eckels lets his fear of the beast he is hunting swallow him mentally, and which leads him to making careless mistakes. These mistakes now carry extravagant consequences for the entire human history and future. The conflict in the story, “The Veldt”, is that the house has now taken over the need for parents and their roles. The kids show no respect for the parents and the mother even exclaims that she feels she doesn’t even belong. The parents try to do something about their kids, but they beg for them not to and it ends up getting the parents killed by the kids because the kids no longer needed parents or the roles of them because the house would take care of them. The clearest conflict in the plot of "All Summer in a Day" is the jealousy between Margot, a newcomer to life on Venus, and the other children, who were born on Venus and live in its constant indoors and