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The Veldt

By elomoole251

  • Exposition

    Exposition
    The two main charatcers, George and Lydia, live in an automated house called "The Happylife Home" with their two children, Peter and Wendy. The house is filled with machines that does everything for them that includes cooking meals, clothing them, and to rocking them to sleep.

  • Rising Action

    Rising Action
    Peter and Wendy become fascinated with the nursery, a virtual reality room that is able to connect with the children telepathically to reproduce any place they imagine.

  • Rising Action Continued

    Rising Action Continued
    Lydia and George begin to realize that there is something wrong with their way of life and their children who are completely reliable on the nursery and are perplexed to see the images of lions on the nursery walls eating what seems to appear the remains of dead animals.

  • Rising Action Part 3

    Rising Action Part 3
    Lydia begins to feel as if she can't compete with the house in raising her children who have already drifted apart from her and George.

  • Climax

    Climax
    George and Lydia call a psychologist, Dave McClean, because they are concerned why their children are so obsessed with the scene of death.

  • Falling Action

    Falling Action
    The psychologist suggests that they leave the house and move to the country to learn how to be more self sufficient. The children are devastated for the nursery has become their real parents, replacing Lydia and George. The parents relent and allow the children one more minute in the nursery.

  • Falling Action Part 2

    Falling Action Part 2
    When George and Lydia come to fetch the children, Peter and Wendy lock them in from the outside and the lions from the nursery that the children imagine begin to advance upon George and Lydia.

  • Resolution

    Resolution
    As Geroge MClean comes to check in on the family he discovers the children happily eating lunch on the veldt and the lions eating something in the distance.

  • Resolution Part 2

    Resolution Part 2
    In the end of The Veldt, it is revealed that the children ordered the lions to kill their parents so they would not have to leave the nursery. The story is just another example of how addicting and consuming technology is especially to young children like Peter and Wendy.