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Definition: Main points of a story in a clear statement

George and lydia Hadley are parents with two children, who live in a robotic HappyLife home. The home does everything for them, but the children have grown dependent on this automatic way of life. Because of that, they have grown part from their parents and dislike them. The veldt is a simulated african grassland is one of the robotic rooms. The room only listens to the children and familiar screams often come from the room when they're inside of it.

The parents notice their children's dependency and call Mr.McClean, a psycologist to help. Mr.McClean doesn't do much, but advises against locking the room up. George does it anyways and the kids are furious. They plan a trip to Iowa to leave the house and give the children five minutes to play in the room.

The kids then call the parents into the veldt and trap them in. The parents are eaten by lions.

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Definition: A recurring item, object, or idea in a story.

- The lions are often repeated in the story, they give an indication of the kids' hatred towards their parents.
- The screams coming from the room are repeatedly heard throughout the story. At the end of the story it is revealed that these screams are actually the parents', and the children are imagining them being eaten by the lions in the room.

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Definition: Overall message or lesson that is taken from a story.
- The overall theme of the story is that discipline will never work with children without a good relationship with their parents and parental discipline.

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Definition: The emotion picked up by the reader.

The mood is somber and serious, with screams often echoing from the room and blood splattered on the floor of the veldt while the lions calmly eat. The childrens' hatred towards their parents sets a dark atmosphere over the characters.

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Definition: The emotion the author writes with.

The tone is the same as the mood, the author used certain words and phrases to convey the serious feeling and dark atmosphere of the story.

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Definition: From what perspective the story is being told from.

The story is told from the point of view of a third-person omniscient narrator. The character's thoughts and emotion are written explicitly in the text. Words like "they" and "them" are used to refer to characters.

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“I wouldn’t want the nursery locked up,” said Peter coldly. “Ever.”
“Matter of fact, we’re thinking of turning the whole house off for about a month.
Live sort of a carefree one-for-all existence.”
“That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the
shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?”
“It would be fun for a change, don’t you think?”
“No, it would be horrid. I didn’t like it when you took out the picture painter last
month.”

This quote highlights the childrens' dependency on the machinery in their home rather than on their parents.

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Definition: a word that creates a phonetically resembles a sound.

- In the quote, "Far away, a lion roared," the author used the word "roar" to resemble a sound.

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Definition: The problem that the characters face.

- George and Lydia Hadley reached a conflict in the story when the children have a constant need for the nursery. Lydia and George later run into another conflict when Peter and Wendy locked them in the nursery out of anger for turning the Happylife Home off.

- The parents had to 'fight' for their childrens' love. The kids kill them in the end because they didn't approve of them

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Definition: A vivid description to form a picture in the reader's head.

The author vividly describes the veldt, for example: "The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of
dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds: the thump of distant
antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures."

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"And then they heard the sounds.
The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the
dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats.
The lions.

Mr. Hadley looked at his wife and they turned and looked back at the beasts
edging slowly forward crouching, tails stiff.
Mr. and Mrs. Hadley screamed.
And suddenly they realized why those other screams bad sounded familiar."

In this part of the story, the parents were locked in the veldt with nothing but the lions. They were backed against the door and were eaten. It's revealed that the screams were theirs all along.

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“That’s just it. I feel like I don’t belong here. The house is wife and mother now,
and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt? Can I give a bath and scrub the
children as efficiently or quickly as the automatic scrub bath can? I cannot. And it
isn’t just me. It’s you. You’ve been awfully nervous lately.”

This quote moves the plot of the story by showing that the parents have to compete with the veldt for their childrens' attention.

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Definition: An item used to represent another meaning or object.

The lions and the veldt most likely represent the relationship between the parents and the children; dry and empty.

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Definition: An example or comparison of two objects or symbols

- In the quote: "It was as empty as a jungle glade a hot high noon": the author compared two objects- A jungle glade and the room-  using like or as.

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1. George Hadley-These two are the parents.
2. Lydia Hadley- These two are the parents.

3. Peter Hadley- These two are the children.
4. Wendy Hadley-These two are the children.

5. David McClean
A psychologist helping the parents get rid of the mess involving their relationship with their children and their dependency on the veldt.