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The Veldt, They're Made Out of Meat, Harrison Burgeron (Harrison…
The Veldt, They're Made Out of Meat, Harrison Burgeron
The Veldt
Plot
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Lydia Tells George that there is something wrong with the nursery and he doesn't believe her until he goes and looks.
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George tells the psychologist David McClean that the kids are imagining dangerous things and that the room is supposed to help them not have these brain patterns.
Setting
In the house that the parents have spent a ton of money on to improve. It mainly takes place in the nursery where the kids can imagine anything they want and the room looks like what they imagined.
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Harrison Burgeron
Characters
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- Diana Moon Glampers, Handicapper General
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Plot
- If anyone is any different than the other they will say that they are going back to the dark ages.
- All of the people have things on their bodies that are handicapping them so that they are all equal.
- This man named George has a son who is in jail and he escaped.
- They don't know what real music is and they aren't allowed to have any Beauty in their voice.
- People don't want to do anything wrong because they are afraid of the society going back to the dark ages.
- People aren't allowed to be smart or beautiful because then they are seen as unequal.
- The people are being controlled and told that they are doing something wrong by being what they are.
Themes
- authority and who decides what is what
- The surreal nature of modern life and how tv complicates this
- good of the many vs. the good of the few
Vocabulary
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Irony
a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.