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Happy Life Home; nursery with lions; Future America
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The Veldt: setting
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George, Lydia, Peter, Wendy
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The Veldt: characters
124 questions
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Happy Life Home; nursery with lions; Future America
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George, Lydia, Peter, Wendy
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Answer: Mars and a cave on Mars, and New York
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Answer: Ettil read Earth books, which made him realize that an invasion on Earth will fail.
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Answer: Saul, Mark, Smith and Johnson
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Fascination, Suspense, Faith, desperation
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Answer: Everyone wanted to use Mark's powers and fought over him.
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Answer: Earth said on the radio that they are welcoming Ettil and the Martians, since Earth was unprepared for an invasion.
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Answer: "His legs were grown into the earth, with roots feeding deep of loneliness"
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On Mars; in First Town
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The Fire Balloons: "He arose his fleshy body with its rich look of strawberries, milk, and steak, moving heavily"
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The Man: "And he will go on and on, thinking to find to find that very thing which he left behind here, on this planet, in this city...come along now. We mustn't keep him waiting."
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Character v. Character, Character v. Society
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Answer: Who's life mattered more in the end.
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Answer: To get him in a movie about space invasion
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Zero hour: "the most exciting game ever!"
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Desperation, Ignorance, Arrogance, Disbelief
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Captain Hart, Martin, The Mayor
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(answer) on mars then earth
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Hitchcock and Clemens
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Answer: Hollis punches the man's glass mask causing him to suffocate
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Answer: Lespere
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kids all over the world play a game called Invasion, which is more real than their parents think. Mrs. Morris, Mink's mom, gradually finds this out until the martians arrive at 5 o'clock
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(answer) Ettil Vyre, R.R. Van Plank
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Answer: Something hits it
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No Particular Night or Morning: "memories are porcupines"
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Mrs. Morris, Mink, Drill
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Father Peregrine; Father Stone; Bishop; Mayor; Blue Spheres
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On a rocket in space
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Answer: Hollis falls into earth's atmosphere and burns up
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two astronauts on a lonely space ship where one only believes in what he can see and experience for himself, so he jettisons himself into space and dies
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A futuristic suburb neighborhood in New York
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Hollis, Stone, Lespere, Applegate
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(answer) a movie producer on earth that wanted Ettil to help him with a Martian movie
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(main topics)
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See image
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See image
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See image
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spoiled kids get parents killed by lions in smart nursery
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Answer: the martians killed her
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The Fire Balloons: "They were separated like chaff from wheat"
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Simile
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The Fire Balloons: "Like a flight of burning angels silently singing him to his worried rest"
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Answer: Acapulco
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The Blue spheres
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answer: Burton
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They are not human but they had souls
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William and Susan escape to to Mexico, 1938, so they can have a better life. Searches keep looking for them and they are trying to stay undercover.
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In the town; at characters houses
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Jesus was being kept by the people and Hart went on a "wild goose chase"
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Marionettes, Inc: "They walked slowly down the street at about ten in the evening"
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Answer: Invasion
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The Rocket Man: "the lazy sun"
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Outer space; Earth's atmosphere
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Marionettes, Inc: " And he's built to do everythingâeat, sleep, perspireâeverything,"
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Answer: Planet Taollan
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Answer: She called him all the time and was too loving
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a city
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Answer: 10 years; Rio de Janeiro
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Answer: Captain, Mr Smith, troops, the city, minor characters: Jones, Jensen, Hutchinson, Springer
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Answer: He was still alive (didn't turn off) and wanted to constantly be moving
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The Rocket Man: "the fireflies...fluttered after her like an errant constellation"
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The Rocket Man: "it's the best thing in a lifetime of best things"
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Regret, space travel, obsession
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Answer: revenge, betrayal and space travel
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Doug's dad can't be convinced to stay home with his family, and he goes into space only to be killed by running into the sun
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Answer: The city is calculating their weight, the windows are watching them, and the street is tasting them
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Answer: William runs him over with his car
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Answer: "Click-chakk-chakk-chakk" (Bradbury 245)
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answer: around 3,000 people
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answer: who the man was
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Susan, William, Mr. Simms, film crew
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Answer: Personification
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Zero Hour: "boom!"
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answer: to have the locals welcome him when he landed
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Mexico, 1938
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Hernando
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man named Ettil Vyre is forced to join an invasion of Earth. while he's on Earth he is approached by many earthlings including RR VanPlank. RR is a movie producer that offered Ettil a job helping him make a movie about martians. before Ettil can decide to stay on Earth or go back to his family on Mars, he gets run over by a car.
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Venus, in the future.
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The Rocket Man: characters' house, Mexico, California
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answer: The husband, wife, and their kids
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a farmland next to a busy highway
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a car
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Imagery
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City on Mars
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Hyperbole
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Idiom
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Zero Hour: complacency, alien invasion, manipulation
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two people sit in a coffee shop and discuss a common dream that everyone has previously had. the dream was about how the this night would be the last night of the world. they continue their day normally and spend the evening doing normal things like the dishes.
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Susan(Ann), William(Roger), Mr.Simms, Joe Melton
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Zero Hour: "she was gone, like a rocket"
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(answer) He could join the legion of war or burn with his forbidden books.
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Doug, Dad, Mom(Lilly)
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Answer: Imagery
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Answer: Drill
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Isolation, acceptance, outer space
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Willie, Hattie, Mr. Brown, White guy,
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See image
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Answer: Time travel, hope, stress
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complacency, acceptance
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answer: he accepts his fate and continues to live his life
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they had to abandon their home because of the war
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Answer: lieutenant
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answer: the war has started
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there's never been an hour without a car passing
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Answer: Imagery
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Answer: " 'The rabbits may hide in the forest,' said a voice, 'but a fox can always find them.' "
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Answer: Because of the war
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the highway: hyperbole
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answer: water
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(main topics)
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See image
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See image
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See image
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Mars; place of banishment; war zone; City of Oz
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Ambrose Bierce, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens
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Rocket men from Earth are going to Mars to destroy the last remaining fantasy works from famous authors who have been banned on Earth
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censorship; superstition; foreign affairs
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The Exiles: the authors named in the story are real authors who wrote stories of controversial fantasy
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The Exiles: "Over a lonely moor and into a small valley Poe and Bierce hurried"
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The Exiles: "'Don't worry,' said Poe, his brow like a huge white lamp before them, descending, sinking."
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Answer: from the famous play Macbeth
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Answer: he had a voodoo doll made of him that the witches killed
