The Veldt, They're made out of meat, Harrison Bergeron M. Surface
The Veldt
Plot
Themes
Characters
Peter
Wendy
The Nursery
Geogre
Manipulation
Children shouldn't be trusted with things more powerful than they can handle
Power can't always be trusted.
After she talked to her husband about what she thought about the problem, they decided to go the nursery.
When they went in, they experienced what their kids do. They decided the kids need a break from the room.
The mother began to worry about her children. She worried about them thinking so much about death. She wanted them to think happy thoughts.
When the kids heard the news about the nursery going to be turned off, they were upset. They cried.
The kids, Wendy and Peter, got an obsession with the nursery. They loved to go to Africa. They imagined lions, and they saw lions. They imagined death, and they thought death.
The parents decided they could have one last minute in the nursery. They kids went in. They parents heard screams and ran into the room.
The Hadley Family bought a Happy Life Home. They home does everything for them. Cooks, cleans, gives them bathes, etc.
When they went in the room, the kids lock the parents inside. The lions that were in Africa ate the parents.
Setting
22nd Century
America
Lydia
Harrison Bergeron
Characters
Plot
Harrison escaped from prison.
Harrison called himself the emperor and a ballerina took his lead, and became his Empress.
George can't remember what he is watch because of the ear radio is his ear. The ear radio stopped him from thinking greater thoughts than anyone else could think.
Harrison and his empress flew to the ceiling and kissed
Hazel and George watched the ballerinas on TV
The Diana Moon Glampers killed them
Every was equal. Nobody was greater than anybody else.
Setting
George and Hazel's house
Themes
Equality
Everyone being equal takes away some fairnesses
Fairness
Diana Moon Glampers
The Ballerinas
Hazel Bergeron
The news reporter
George Bergeron
Television Program
Harrison Bergeron
Harrison's Empress
They're made out of meat
Setting
Plot
Themes
The radio waves that the storytellers heard were from the machines the meat uses.
They talked about how even their brain was made from meat.
They argued back and forth.
They figured out that the meat was sending out the radio waves by radio.
Speaker one is trying to convince Speaker two that the species they are looking at are completely made out of meat.
They decided that they weren't going to tell anyone about the discovery of meat, because who would want to meet meat?
They left, and went to the other side of the galaxy to look for new things.
Different scares people.
Anything is possible.
Foreign isn't just different, or hard to except, for us.
Another planet
Characters
Storyteller 1
The Meat
The place where the ballerina's show took place
2081
Vocabulary
Surreal
Fairness
Satire
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre.
impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination.
Irony
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Problems with individual vs society (good of the many vs good of the view)
Authority and who decides what is what
The surreal nature of modern life and how tv complicates this
Storyteller 2
The Future