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ksimz
ksimz
Student
High School - 9th Grade

What explanations can you give for the father's wallet and the mother's scarf being in the nursery in "The Veldt"?

or What does this suggest about the events to follow? or Find allusions to mythology and children's literature and explain their roles in the story.

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Posted by ksimz on Tuesday September 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM and tagged with nursery, parents, scarf, the veldt, theme, wallet.

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  1. ms-mcgregor Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    The children had obviously taken the scarf and the wallet, probably from their parents' bedroom, and put them in the nursery so the lions could get the parents' scent. All during the story, the children are trying and eventually succeed in gaining control of the nursery because they had become so dependent upon the house that they were terrified the parents would turn off the house. That would mean the children would have to do things for themselves, like "tie their own shoes" and "brush their own teeth." The house's survival became more important than their parents and the children are willing to do anything to protect it.

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    Posted by ms-mcgregor on Tuesday September 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM

  2. mrymeski
    mrymeski Student
    College - Sophomore

    In response to this teachers answer bellow, the scarf and wallet are actually George and Lydia's in the virtual reality of the nursery. The reason why the voices eminating from the nursery sound so "familiar" at night is because the children are simulating their parents deaths over and over again. Every time George tries to see what the lions he cannot because they are too far away but by the end of the story we discover that the lions are actually consuming his virtual body in the simulation, that is where the scarf and wallet come from.

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    Posted by mrymeski on Tuesday February 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM

  3. lahl
    lahl Student
    College - Senior

    Foreshadowing!!!!!!

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    Posted by lahl on Monday March 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM

  4. zarlish
    zarlish Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    i dont get wut u mean by foeshawdoing?????????????the reason for this is cuz i need 2 exapmles of forehawdoing from the story and need to no y they r signifient

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    Posted by zarlish on Monday March 23, 2009 at 11:43 PM