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Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Veldt

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People say that addiction leads to death. In this story, it’s no different. In “The Veldt”, the author, Ray Bradbury, uses both foreshadowing and imagery to convey his message that family suffers the consequences of addiction. Bradbury foreshadows the parents’ deaths with the familiar screams that they hear from the nursery. Lydia and George lie in bed after sending the children to bed, and locking the nursery, when they hear “two people screaming from downstairs. And then the roar of lions.” (Bradbury 8) Lydia then tells George “Wendy and Peter aren’t in their rooms”, implying that the snuck out of their rooms. Also, because they heard the screams and roars, the children must be in the nursery creating those scenes, meaning that the children

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