FOR SALE- Happylife Home
$30,000
Happylife Home
A house with much grandeur, this home will be there for your children when you can't be. Its abilities to meet the needs of humans and pets are beyond anything you've ever seen before, with such standards as: A friendly voice announcing the time all throughout the house, an automatic scrubber for your children when it's time to rinse the fun day off of your kids, and a special nursery where your children's minds connect to create their own beautiful worlds.
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Figurative Language--The Veldt
This veldt that the children created with their imaginations is filled with incredible details and is so perfectly lifelike that it gives off the illusion that it is, in fact, real. "The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water holee, 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. A shadow passed through the sky."
Conflict--The Machines vs. Humans
The conflict is between the humans and machines; the machines are affecting the way the humans' relationships work. The kids start to rely on the nursery rather than their parents. This eventually leads to them not wanting their parents and choosing the nursery over them.
Mood--The Nursery
The mood starts off blissful but slightly cold. As the story progresses it gets darker and something seems a bit off. It makes the reader realize something is wrong. When the kids trap themselves in the nursery the mood is darker than ever.
Imagery--The Veldt (again)
"That sun. He could feel it on his neck, still, like a hot paw. And the lions. And the smell of blood." The children have been spending so much time in their nursery that they created a perfectly evil world filled with death and blood and sweltering heat.
Indirect Characterization--The Children
The Hadley children are beyond spoiled. They have been handed everything they want on a silver platter and spend more time in the nursery than the people who actually gave birth to them. They are also extremely creepy as they turn the nursery into a sweltering veldt full of death.