Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

You buy a house that can do everything for you and your family. You would think it would be all fun and games until it all rebounds and you can’t control it anymore. This is what happens in Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”. George and Lydia Hadley bought a house with their twin children. The house contains a nursery that creates a virtual world about what you are thinking about. The children became so attached to the nursery in the end that they create an African veldt that ends up killing the parents. The craft moves were important to “The Veldt” because otherwise the audience wouldn’t have anticipated the ending as much because the craft moves made the story more suspenseful. In the story, “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury focused on descriptive writing, symbolism, and foreshadowing to build suspense.

The author uses descriptive writing to build suspense when he writes, “ And here were the lions now. fifteen feet away. so real. so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand. and our mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated belts.” This helps to build suspense because the different word choices such as “feverishly” and “prickling” made the text seem more real and it made the audience more anticipated. Also, the descriptive

This helps to build suspense by showing how the father has no control over the nursery. The nursery represents the conflict between the parents and children because the parents have no control over their children just like how they have no control over the nursery. This is shown in this quote because when the father tries to make the nursery do something it would not listen and when the father tried to get his children to stop using the nursery they would not listen to the