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