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The Veldt, They're made out of meat, Harrison Bergerson Shane…
The Veldt, They're made out of meat, Harrison Bergerson Shane Sizemore 6th 2017
The Veldt
Themes
Characters
Wendy Hadley
Peter Hadley
Lydia Hadley
David McClean
George Hadley
Plot
Setting
A furturistic house with a family and weird functions
Harrison Bergerson
Themes
Authority and who decides what is what
The surreal nature of modern life and how TV complicates this
Problems with individual vs society (good of the many vs good of the few)
Plot
Harrison gets killed
Hazel can't remember anything
George has forty-seven pounds of weight placed in a bag and locked around his neck
TV announcers have speech impediments
Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else.
Harrison is seven feet tall and covered in 300 pounds of metal. He is wearing huge earphones, rather than a small radio, and big glasses meant to blind him and give him headaches. He is also wearing a red rubber nose and black caps over his teeth. His eyebrows are shaved off.
Hazel and George gets torn from their kids
Chartacters
Diana Moon Glampers
The Ballerina
George Bergerson
The Empress
Hazel Bergerson
The Announcer
Harrison Bergerson
Setting
2081
Where
Vocabulary
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.
Surreal
having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre.
Fairness
the quality of having light-colored hair or a pale complexion.
Irony
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
They're Made Out of Meat