“The Veldt” By Ray Bradbury, Science fiction Is this how the future is predicted? In the "The Veldt'' By Ray Bradbury, will it be true? What does it mean and how does it relate to your position? In the “The Veldt” what does that mean? It means how the story is set in the future-like environment and how the machines do every daily thing, such as cooking, cleaning and bathing. It relates to my position on how today we use technology on a daily basis in everyday things. In “The Veldt” By Ray Bradbury a science fiction story about a future household but mostly about the technology advanced nursery which is a virtual reality room that makes anything to mind come true in high detail. The parents (George and Lydia Hadley) were never close to their …show more content…
And then a roar of lions. ‘Wendy and Peter aren’t in their rooms,’ said his wife. He lay in his bed with his beating heart. No,’ he said, he said. ‘They’ve broken into the Nursery.’ ‘Those screams — they sound familiar.’‘Do they?’ ‘Yes, awfully.’” (Bradbury) page 8.The quote shows that the author uses suspense and foreshadowing by telling us about the screams I think here from the nursery and saying how they sound familiar. The author's text is later on in the text when the characters Lydia and George get killed; it reminds us of this quote expressing how the screams sound familiar, showing suspense and foreshadowing. The author states “George Hadley walked through the singing glade and picked up something that lay in the comer near where the lions had been. He walked slowly back to his wife. ‘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 a lion. There were drops of saliva on it, it had been chewed, and there were blood smears on both sides. “(Bradbury) page 7”. This second quote proves that the suspense and foreshadowing is used by the author by how it says it's his old wallet, but there was blood and drops of …show more content…
In conclusion, the author shows the element of foreshadowing and suspense to create suspense by giving us bits of information that will later on impact the story. The author uses bits of information such as the familiar screams that the parents kept hearing and George finding his old wallet chewed up, smeared blood and a smell of lions. That's what makes the author's story create suspense and have an element of foreshadowing. The second element the author used is the story setting to create suspense. The author was able to create suspense by the setting by telling us what their surrounding environment looked and felt like to the characters. This quote states “They stood on the thatched floor of the nursery. It was forty feet across by forty feet long and thirty feet high; it had cost half as much as the rest of the house. ‘But nothing’s too good for our children,’ George said. The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at a hot high noon. The walls were blank and two-dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African velvet appeared, in three