The Veldt | Style
Ambience
Ambience is the emotional tone that pervades a work of fiction. In “The Veldt” Bradbury sets up a tense, oppressive ambience in the story through his use of description and dialogue. He conveys the hot, oppressiveness of the African veldt through specific descriptive passages such as “The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air.” These descriptive passages create a sensory atmosphere and add to the sense of dread that pervades the...
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