Too Real

In Ray Bradbury’s story The Veldt a family lives happily in their modern and really expensive house that makes everything for them, the kids in that family have a technological nursery where everything they imagine appears in there in three dimensions and real looking. The kids passed too much time in the nursery playing in an African Veldtland that seemed real, the animals, the sun and the smells.  One day the nursery´s 3D holograms where too real, and the lions on it ended up having both parents for meal.

      

 

African Veldt 

In these story we can find a lot of characterization specially in the members of the family. The character of the mother, Lydia Hadley is hysterical and nervous almost in all the story for example "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery."
     "What's wrong with it?"
     "I don't know."
     "Well, then."
     "I  just want you  to look at it, is all, or call a  psychologist in to
look at it."
     "What would a psychologist want with a nursery?"
     "You know very well what he'd want." His  wife  paused (...)"  In these dialogue between both parents we can understand the personality of Lydia Hadley. Ray Barndbury uses dialogues to shape the characters personality. Other example of characterization is "I'm afraid." She  came to him  and put  her body against him and cried

steadily. "Did you see? Did you feel? It's too real."

     "Now, Lydia..."

     "You've got to tell Wendy and Peter not to read any more on Africa."

     "Of course - of course." He patted her.

     "Promise?"

     "Sure."

     "And lock the nursery for a few days until I get my nerves settled."

In these part Ray Brndbury uses the words “nerves” and “steadly” to dicrive how the character acts and feels.

For Imagery theres a lot of good and descriptive examples like "

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." 

Here we can almost feel and hear the African Veldt and it`s animals in front of us. In these part Ray Bradbury compares things we know and we surely had felt to seme that we have not.

Another good example is "  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 your  mouth was stuffed  with the dusty upholstery  smell  of  their  heated pelts, and  the  yellow  of  them  was in your  eyes like the yellow  of  an exquisite French  tapestry, the yellows of  lions and  summer grass, and the sound  of  the matted lion lungs  exhaling on  the silent noontide,  and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths." In these part Ray Bradbury uses the sense of touch and smell really good making us be able to feel and hear.

these had been a great story full of interesting theme, the message: too much of anything is not good.

Chapter 17-20

In these chapters we start with an unscheduled holiday, it means that Jonas and the rest of the community is free to rest or do what they would like, but never broke a rule, in these holiday Jonas decides to go with he´s friends to play, Asher and other children where playing a war game, pretending to shoot with imaginary weapons. Then Jonas realize it was a war game, he had never notice until he got the warfare memory, in that moment Jonas was in shock. Some days later when Jonas was with the Giver they started talking about release, then the Giver told him about Rosemary the receiver before Jonas and who she fail. While they where talking about releasing Jonas remembered about the releasing of the twin that he´s father had told him, then the Giver turn the speaker on and order to see the release of the twin baby, that day Jonas realized that realizing was actually killing them.

kids playing 

releasing the baby 

These chapters are amazingly interesting and are difficult to stop reading. The word choices are really variated, mostly we all know those words and we must have not problem understanding.
"Once again, as he had on the playing field, he felt the choking sensation. Once again he saw the face light-haired soldier as life left his eyes." (Lowry 151)
This quote here shows the power of memories, the pain they can cause, I thing these quote made me feel empathy towards Jonas and understand the experience he is feeling, the choking feeling of deception, of sadness and pain.


As i said before the book is in its most interesting part, on the final part.