Review of the story "Veld" by Ray Bradbury, Citizen Gleb. Wendy and Peter are the bad kids from the Veld story Family Reading Lesson

Moral problems of R. Bradbury's story "Veld"

As an argument for composing the USE format

Very often, students who have carefully studied classical Russian literature in order to resort to its masterpieces in the exam, find themselves in a difficult situation when the text proposed for analysis turns to such ultra-new issues as, for example, the influence of the Internet on a teenager.

- What a pity that Pushkin chatted only in handwritten albums! Eh, he didn't know the Internet… – a blue-eyed tenth-grader lamented recently, reflecting on the text by A. Ivanova. (Text in Appendix 1, task 24 in the same place, or former B 8)

The question, of course, is debatable, but the teacher still faces the task of helping future graduates and suggesting the right work, which will be remembered only if it touches the reader to the core. One of these works, in our opinion, may be the story of R. Bradbury "Veld" (Text in Appendix 2)

There are many ways to get acquainted with this work: both home reading and loud reading in the classroom - each teacher chooses his own path. The only thing we categorically do not accept is reading a work in brief and watching a movie.

During the classes build as follows:

1. Discussion. For questions.

– Can this story be considered absolutely fantastic, or can some details of this story have a connection with reality?(Realistic is the psychology of spoiled teenagers who are ready to sacrifice the lives of their own parents for the sake of their interests)

– How do you assess the relationship between children and parents? If in these relations there is a place for sincerity? Love?

– What predetermined such development of parent-child relations?(The desire for comfort, inattention of adults to the interests of children, spoiled)

– What place in the story is given to the image of a “smart home”?

– On the basis of what visual possibilities is the fabric of the story built?(hyperbolization, irony, the rapid development of events, the method of predicting events, etc.)

2. Building a cluster.

– plot

– Figurative storytelling system

– Emotional Plan of the Reader(How do the feelings and emotions of the reader change during the acquaintance with the story?)

3. Definition of the main problem raised in the story. The author raises, first of all, questions of morality, the value of human life, selfishness, cruelty, etc.

4. Reading the text of A. Ivanova. The task:

Mark in the margins those places in the text that intersect ideologically and emotionally with the story "Veld"

5. Completing the task after the text

6. Identification of the problem raised in the text, making a comment, formulating the position of the author. (Writing assignment)

7. Discussion written by students.

8. Formulation of one's own position and argumentation with the help of the analyzed story.

9. Summing up the lesson. Reflection.

Attachment 1

(1) In the past few years, one more has been added to the usual fears of parents. (2) Increasingly, teenagers scare us with an addiction to virtual communication. (3)Here are examples of complaints.
“(4) You can’t drag children away from the computer. (5) They sit for days. (6) Some ICQ, agents, chats, forums ... "
“(7) I don’t understand what pleasure this can be. (8) But the son is sitting at the monitor, laughing at something, or even hitting the table with his fist. (9) It seems to me that he is going crazy - talking to himself.
“(10) I used to play video games, it took a lot of time, I abandoned my lessons, and now it’s completely out of hand - as if he’s not at home. (11) All day long on the Web, he says, they have a party there ... "
(12) Something like this begins the conversation of worried parents with teachers and psychologists. (13) Then the details are clarified: along with the enthusiasm for computer conversations, academic performance began to fall, the child spends all the time at home, sitting and looking at the screen. (14) The teenager does not do homework, does not help around the house, does not go outside, does not play sports.
(15) Instead of talking on the phone and walking late into the night, more and more children communicate with each other via the Internet. (16) In fact, we have heard similar complaints before, only the evil did not come from the computer, but from the phone or TV. (17) The current "computer" children are the descendants of their "television" parents.
(18) How was this problem solved when today's parents were teenagers? (19) Most likely, they just grew out of it ... (20) They may object to me that not everyone spent endless hours at the TV screen; someone already in his youth clearly knew what he would do in life. (21) Many became responsible early, because some had younger brothers and sisters, some were influenced by the example of responsible adults, and some did not know how and why. (22) And although the parents seriously feared for their future, they became completely independent people, with different professions and destinies, many families ...
(23) Why am I saying all this? (24) To the fact that television turned out to be not dangerous in itself. (25) No matter how insulting it is for someone to realize their own "backwardness", they will have to come to terms with the fact that the Internet has become a part of our life and will not go anywhere. (26) The ability to navigate in it and use its capabilities becomes a condition for a successful life in many ways. (27) From an unlimited source of information, it has also turned into a trading network, a way of communication, a means of education ... (28) Will there be more. (29) We should learn from children. (30) I, too, once had to go through a period of irritation and discontent. (31) And now, with the help of her son, she has become quite good at navigating in the virtual space. (32) It happens, too, “you can’t pull it off” ...
(33) Online spending time is perfectly acceptable for teenagers. (34) Most likely, this harmless hobby lies within the age norm. (35) Although in some cases it is necessary to analyze the situation. (Z6) If virtual communication has become an all-consuming passion, a teenager has become withdrawn or aggressive, his vocabulary is poor, or there are other symptoms that concern you, you should not postpone a visit to a specialist. (37) It is only important to consider: the fight will have to be waged not with a computer, but with the reasons that gave rise to addiction.
(According to A. Ivanova*)

24. “Telling about what worries parents of teenagers today, the author uses such a device as _______ (sentences 4-6, 7-9, 10-11), as well as such a syntactic device as _______ (in sentences 13, 14) . The use of a lexical device such as _______ (“going crazy” in sentence 9, “out of hand” in sentence 10) emphasizes the parents' concern about the situation. With the help of such a technique as _______ (sentences 18-19, 23-24), A. Ivanova seeks to attract readers to reflection. "

List of terms:

1) litote

2) term

3) phraseological unit

4) quoting

5) rhetorical question

6) epithet

7) parceling

8) rows of homogeneous members

9) question-answer form of presentation

Annex 2

RAY BREDBURY "WELD"

Georgie, please see the nursery.

What's with her?

Do not know.

So what's the deal?

Nothing, I just want you to look at it or invite a psychiatrist, let him look.

And what about the psychiatrist?

You know very well. - standing in the middle of the kitchen, she looked at the stove, which, busily buzzing, prepared dinner for four herself. - You see, the nursery has changed, it is not at all the same as before.

Okay, let's see.

They walked down the corridor of their soundproof house, like: "All for happiness", which became them in thirty thousand dollars (with full furnishings), - a house that clothed them, fed them, groomed them, rocked them, sang and played for them. When there were five steps to the nursery, something clicked, and a light came on in it. And in the corridor, as they walked, one by one, the lamps went on and off smoothly, automatically.

Well, said George Hadley.

They stood on the floor of the children's room covered with reed matting. One hundred and forty-four square meters, height - ten meters; it cost fifteen thousand. "Children should get all the best," George said at the time.

Silence. Empty, as in a forest clearing on a sultry afternoon. Smooth 2D walls. Before the eyes of George and Lydia Hadley, they began to melt, softly buzzing, as if going into a transparent distance, and the African veld appeared - three-dimensional, in colors, like a real one, down to the smallest pebble and blade of grass. The ceiling above them turned into a distant sky with a hot yellow sun.

George Hadley felt sweat break out on his forehead.

We'd better get away from the sun, - he suggested, - it's too natural. And in general, I don’t see anything like that, everything seems to be in order.

Wait a minute, you'll see, - said the wife.

At that moment, the hidden odorophones went into action and sent a wave of scents to the two people standing in the sun-scorched veldt. The thick, nostril-drying smell of withered grass, the smell of a nearby pond, the acrid, pungent smell of animals, the smell of dust that swirled in the hot air, like a cloud of red pepper. And here are the sounds: the distant clatter of antelope hooves on the elastic turf, the rustling tread of crouching predators.

A silhouette floated across the sky, and a shadow flickered across George Hadley's upturned sweaty face.

Look, lions, over there, in the distance, over there, over there! We went to the watering hole. You see, they ate something there.

Some kind of animal. - George Hadley protected his inflamed eyes with his palm from the blinding sun - a zebra ... Or a giraffe ...

Now it’s impossible to be sure, it’s too late,” he answered jokingly. “I see only gnawed bones and vultures picking up scraps.

The lions were slowly approaching. And George Hadley admired the genius of the designer who created this room. A miracle of perfection - for an absurdly low price. All homeowners should be like this! Of course, sometimes they repel with their clinical thoughtfulness, even frighten, cause an unpleasant feeling, but most often they serve as a source of fun not only for your son or daughter, but also for yourself when you want to have fun with a short walk to another country, change the situation. Like now, for example!

Here they are, fifteen feet away, the lions, so plausible - yes, so horribly, maddeningly plausible, that you can feel your skin tickled by hard synthetic fur, and the smell of hot skins in your mouth tastes like dusty upholstery, their yellowness shines in your eyes with the yellowness of a French tapestry ... The yellow color of a lion's skin, withered grass, noisy lion's breathing in a quiet midday hour, the smell of meat from an open mouth wet with saliva.

The lions stopped, staring with eerie yellow-green eyes at George and Lydia Headley.

Watch out! Lydia screamed.

The lions charged at them.

Lydia rushed headlong to the door, George involuntarily ran after her. And here they are in the corridor, the door is slammed, he laughs, she cries, and each is puzzled by the reaction of the other.

George!

Lydia! My poor, dear, sweet Lydia!

They almost got us!

Walls, Lydia, glowing walls, that's all. Do not forget. Of course, I do not argue, they look very believable - Africa in your living room! - but this is only a high-impact color three-dimensional film and psycho-recording projected onto a glass screen, odorophones and stereo sound. Here, take my handkerchief.

I'm scared. - she came up and clung to him with her whole body, crying softly. - It's too plausible. Tell Wendy and Peter not to read about Africa anymore. And lock up the kids' room for a few days until I get over my nerves.

You know how difficult it is with Peter. A month ago I punished him by locking the children's room for a few hours - what happened! Yes, and Wendy too ... The nursery is everything for them.

She needs to be locked up, and no favors.

OK. He reluctantly closed the heavy door. You're overtired, you need to rest.

I do not know. She blew her nose and sat down in a chair, which immediately rocked softly. Perhaps I have too little to do. Perhaps there is too much time left for reflection. Why don't we lock up the whole house for a few days, go somewhere.

They ate alone. Wendy and Peter went to a special stereo carnival on the other side of town and told home via videophone that it would be late to be back, no need to wait for them. Concerned, George Headley watched the automatic table spew hot dishes from its mechanical bowels ...

"Nursery," thought George Headley. This sun... He still felt its rays on his neck And these lions. And the smell of blood. it is amazing how accurately the nursery captures the telepathic emanation of the psyche of children and embodies any of their wishes. As soon as they think about lions - please, here they are. Imagine zebras - here are zebras. And the sun. And giraffes. And death.

That's it. He mechanically chewed the food that the table had prepared for him. Thoughts about death. Wendy and Peter are too young for such thoughts. And yet, is it a matter of age. Long before you understand what death is, you already wish death on someone. At the age of two, you shoot people with a scarecrow... But this is... A hot, boundless African veld...

….

Where are you going?

He didn't answer her. Absorbed by his thoughts, he walked, accompanied by a wave of light, to the nursery. He put his ear to the door. From there came the roar of a lion.

He unlocked the door and flung it open. At the same moment, a distant cry reached his ears. Again the roar of the lions... Silence.

He entered Africa. How many times in the last year had he opened the door and met Alice in Wonderland, or the False Turtle, or Aladdin with his magic lamp, or Jack the Pumpkin Head of Oz, or Dr. Dolittle, or a cow jumping over the moon, much like to the real one - all these wonderful inhabitants of an imaginary world. How many times has he seen a Pegasus flying in the sky, or pink fountains of fireworks, or heard angels singing. And now in front of him is a yellow, red-hot Africa, a huge furnace that is full of murder. Maybe Lydia is right. Maybe we really need to part with a fantasy for a while, which has become too real for ten-year-old children ...

George Hadley stood alone in the steppes. African Lions, looking up from their meal, looked at him. A complete illusion of real animals - if not for the open door through which he could see, at the far end of the dark corridor, like a framed portrait, his wife absentmindedly having dinner.

Go away, he said to the lions.

They didn't listen.

He knew the layout of the room very well. It is enough to send a mental order, and it will be executed.

Let Aladdin appear with his lamp,” he barked. Still veld, and all the same lions...

Well, room, go! I need Aladdin.

No impression. The lions were nibbling something, shaking their shaggy manes.

Aladdin!

He returned to the dining room.

The damned room, - he said, - has broken down, does not obey.

Or CANNOT obey, - answered Lydia. “Because the kids have been thinking about Africa and lions and murder for so many days that the room is stuck on one combination.

Maybe.

Or maybe Peter got her stuck.

FORCED?

Opened the mechanism and tweaked something.

Peter doesn't understand the mechanism.

For a ten-year-old boy, he is not stupid at all. His IQ...

And still...

Hello mom! Hello, dad!

The Hadleys turned around. Wendy and Peter entered the hallway, mint-cheeked, eyes bright blue, their jumpers reeking of the ozone they bathed in in the helicopter.

You just made it in time for dinner, the parents said together.

We ate strawberry ice cream and sausages, - the children answered, waving their hands. - But we will sit with you at the table.

Just about, come here, tell me about the nursery, ”George Headley called them.

The brother and sister looked at him in surprise, then at each other.

Children's?

About Africa and everything else,” my father continued with mock good nature.

I don't understand, Peter said.

Your mother and I have just made a trip to Africa: Tom Swift and his Electric Lion, George Headley chuckled.

There is no Africa in the nursery,” Peter protested in an innocent voice.

Come on, Peter, we know.

I don't remember any Africa. Peter turned to Wendy. - And you?

No.

Well, run, check and tell us.

She obeyed her brother.

Wendy, come back! called George Hadley, but she had already gone. The light followed her like a swarm of fireflies. He realized too late that he had forgotten to lock the nursery.

Wendy will look and tell us,” said Peter.

What should I tell when I saw it myself.

I'm sure, father, you're wrong.

I'm not wrong, let's go.

But Wendy is back.

There is no Africa,” she reported breathlessly.

We'll check it out now," said George Hadley.

Together they went down the corridor and opened the door to the nursery.

A wonderful green forest, a wonderful river, a purple mountain, singing that caresses the ear, and in the foliage - a charming mysterious Rome, on whose long flowing hair, multi-colored butterflies fluttered like revived flowers. No African veld, no lions. Only Rima, singing so delightfully that involuntarily tears appear in her eyes.

George Hadley carefully examined the new painting.

Go to sleep, he told the children.

They opened their mouths.

You heard?

They went to the pneumatic chamber and flew like dry leaves up the shaft to their bedrooms.

George Hadley crossed the clearing ringing with bird voices and picked up something in a corner near where the lions stood. Then he slowly returned to his wife.

What is it in your hand?

My old wallet,” he replied and handed it to her.

The wallet smelled of withered grass and lions. There were drops of saliva on it, and teeth marks, and blood stains on both sides.

He closed the nursery door and locked it securely.

George was still awake at midnight, and he knew that his wife was also awake.

So you think Wendy switched it? she finally asked in the darkness.

Certainly.

Turned the veld into a forest and called Rima in place of the lions?

Yes.

But why?

Do not know. But until I find out, the room will be locked.

How did your wallet get there?

I don’t know,” he answered, “I don’t know anything, only one thing: I already regret that we bought this room for the children. And without that they are nervous, and then there is such a room ...

Its purpose is to help them get rid of their neuroses.

Oh, is it so ... - he looked at the ceiling.

We gave the children everything they asked for. And what we get as a reward - disobedience, secrets from parents ...

Who said: "Children are a carpet, sometimes you have to step on them" ... We never raised a hand against them. Let's be honest - they became unbearable. They come and go as they please, they treat us as if we were their offspring. We spoil them, they spoil us.

They've changed since - remember, two or three months ago - when you forbade them to fly a rocket to New York.

I explained to them that they are still small for such a journey.

I explained, and I see how they have become worse towards us since that day.

Here's what I'm going to do: tomorrow I'll invite David McClean and ask him to take a look at this Africa.

But there is no Africa, now there is a fabulous country and Rome.

It seems to me that by then it will be Africa again.

A moment later, he heard screams.

One... the other... Two people were shouting downstairs. Then the roar of the lions.

Wendy and Peter are awake, his wife told him.

He listened with a pounding heart.

Yes, he replied. - They got into the children's room.

Those screams... they remind me of something.

Indeed?

Yes, I'm scared.

And hard as the beds worked, they could not rock the Hadleys for another hour. The night air smelled of cats.

Father, said Peter.

Yes?

Peter looked at the toes of his boots. He had long avoided looking at his father, and at his mother too.

Have you locked the nursery forever?

It depends...

From what? Peter asked sharply.

From you and your sister. If you don't get too carried away with this Africa, you will alternate it with ... let's say Sweden, or Denmark, or China.

I thought we could play whatever we want.

Of course, within reason.

What's wrong with Africa, father?

So you still admit that you called Africa!

I don't want the nursery locked," Peter said coldly. - Never.

So let me tell you that we're actually going to leave this house for a month. Let's try to live by the golden principle: "Everyone does everything himself."

Terrible! So I have to lace my own boots, without an automatic lacer? Brush your teeth, comb your hair, wash yourself?

Don't you think that would even be nice for a change?

It will be disgusting. I was not pleased at all when you removed the automatic painter.

I wanted you to learn how to draw, son.

What for? Just look, listen and smell! There are no other jobs worth doing.

Okay, go play Africa.

So you've decided to shut down our house soon?

We thought about it.

I advise you to think again, father.

But-but, son, no threats!

Fine. And Peter went to the nursery.

I'm not late? David McClean asked.

Breakfast? suggested George Hadley.

Thanks, I already. Well, so what's the matter?

David, do you understand the psyche?

As if.

So, please check our nursery. A year ago you went into it - did you notice anything special then?

It seems not. The usual manifestations of aggression, here and there a touch of paranoia inherent in children who believe that their parents are constantly harassing them. But nothing, absolutely nothing serious.

They went out into the corridor.

I locked the nursery, - the father of the family explained, - and at night the children still got into it. I didn't intervene so you could see what they were up to.

Terrible screams came from the nursery.

That's it, said George Hadley. - Interesting, what do you say?

They entered without knocking. The cries fell silent, the lions were devouring something.

Come on. children, go into the garden, - ordered George Hadley - No, no, do not change anything, leave the walls as they are. March!

Left alone, the men carefully looked at the lions, which huddled at a distance, greedily destroying their prey.

I wish I knew what it was,” said George Hadley. “Sometimes I think I see... What do you think, if you bring strong binoculars...”

David McClean chuckled dryly.

Hardly...

He turned, looking at all four walls one by one.

How long has this been going on?

A little over a month.

Yes, it's an uncomfortable feeling.

I want facts, not feelings.

My friend George, find me a psychiatrist who would observe at least one fact. He hears what he is told about sensations, that is, something very indefinite. So, I repeat: this is depressing. Rely on my instinct and my hunch. I always feel when trouble is brewing. There is something very bad going on here. I advise you to completely turn off this accursed room and bring your children to me for procedures for at least a year every day.

Has it come to this?

I'm afraid, yes. Initially, these nurseries were conceived, in particular, so that we, doctors, could study the psychology of the child from the pictures on the walls and correct it without examination. But in this case, the nursery, instead of getting rid of destructive inclinations, encourages them!

Have you felt this before?

I felt only that you spoil your children more than others. And now the nut has been tightened. What happened?

I didn't let them into New York.

Yet?

He removed several machine guns from the house, and a month ago he threatened to lock the nursery if they did not do their homework. And I really locked it up for a few days, so that they knew that I was not joking.

Aha!

Does this tell you anything?

Everything. In place of the Christmas grandfather came beech. Children prefer Christmas grandfather. A child cannot live without attachments. You and your wife have allowed this room, this home, to take your place in their hearts. The children's room became mother and father for them, turned out to be much more important in their life than real parents. Now you want to lock her up. No wonder there is hatred here. Here - even the sky radiates it. And the sun. George, you need to change your lifestyle. Like many others - too many - comfort has become the main thing for you. Yes, if something breaks in the kitchen tomorrow, you will die of hunger. You won't be able to crack your own eggs! Still, I advise you to turn everything off. Start a new life. This will take time. Nothing, in a year we will make good children out of bad ones, you'll see.

Wouldn't it be too much of a shock for the kids to suddenly lock up the nursery forever?

The lions have finished their bloody feast.

The lions stood at the edge of the forest, looking at both men.

Now I feel persecuted,” McClean said. - Let's go. Never liked those damn rooms. They get on my nerves.

And lions are just like real ones, right? George Hadley said. - You don't admit the possibility...- ...that they can become real?

I don't think so.

Any defect in the design, switching in the circuit or something else?

No.

They went to the door.

I don't think the room wants to be turned off,” said George Hadley.

Nobody wants to die, not even a room.

I wonder: does she hate me for my decision?

Everything here is saturated with paranoia, - David McClean answered. - Tangible. Hey! He bent down and picked up the bloody scarf. - Is yours?

No. George's face hardened. - This is Lydia.

Together they went to the switchboard and turned on the switch that killed the children's room.

The children were hysterical. They screamed, jumped, threw things, yelled, sobbed, cursed.

You don't dare do that to the children's room, you don't!

They threw themselves on the sofa in tears.

George, said Lydia Headley, turn the nursery on for a few minutes. You can't do it all of a sudden.

Lydia, the room is off and will stay off. And anyway, it's time to end this damned house. The more I look at all this disgrace, the more disgusted I am. And so we contemplated our mechanical electronic navel for too long. God knows we need a change of scenery!

And he began to walk from room to room, turning off the talking clock, stoves, heating, shoe shines, mechanical sponges, washcloths, towels, massage therapists and all other machines that came to hand.

The house seemed to be full of the dead. It was as if they were in a graveyard of mechanisms. Silence. The buzzing of the latent energy of machines, ready to spring into action at the first push of a button, had ceased.

Don't let them do it! Peter yelled, raising his face to the ceiling, as if addressing the house, the children's room - Don't let your father kill everything. He turned to his father. - Why do I hate you!

Insults won't accomplish anything.

If only you were dead!

We have been dead for a long time. Now let's start living for real. From now on we will live.

Wendy was still crying. Peter joined her again.

Well, just a little more, just a minute, just a minute! they shouted.

George, his wife told him, it won't hurt them.

Okay, okay, just shut up. For one minute, mind you, then I'll turn it off completely.

Daddy, daddy, daddy! the children sang, smiling through their tears.

And then - holidays. David McClean will be back in half an hour, he will help us get ready and take us to the airfield. I went to get dressed. Turn on the nursery for one minute, Lydia, do you hear - no more than one minute.

The children, chatting merrily, hurried to the nursery with their mother, and George, flying up the air shaft, began to dress. A minute later, Lydia appeared.

I will be glad when we leave this house,” she sighed.

Did you leave them in the nursery?

I also need to get dressed. Oh, this terrible Africa. And what do they see in her?

Never mind, we'll be on our way to Iowa in five minutes. Lord, what a force drove us into this house .. What prompted us to buy this nightmare!

Pride, money, stupidity.

Perhaps it's better to go down before the guys are again carried away by their damn menagerie.

Dad, mom, hurry, come here, hurry!

They went down the shaft and rushed down the corridor at a run. The children were nowhere to be seen.

Wendy! Peter!

They broke into the nursery. In the desert veld - no one, not a soul, except for the lions looking at them.

Peter! Wendy!

The door slammed shut.

George and Lydia Headley rushed to the exit.

Open the door! shouted George Hadley, tugging at the handle. Why did you lock her up? Peter! He pounded on the door with his fists. - Open!

Don't let them turn off the nursery and the whole house.

Mr and Mrs George Hadley were knocking on the door.

What stupid jokes, kids! It's time for us to go. Mr. McClean is about to come and...

And then they heard...

Lions on three sides in the yellow grass of the veld, the rustle of dry stems under their paws, the rumble in their throats.

Lions.

Mr. Headley looked at his wife, then together they turned to face the predators, who slowly, crouching to the ground, crept up to them.

Mr and Mrs Hadley screamed.

And suddenly they understood why the screams they heard before seemed so familiar to them.

Here I am, - said David McClean, standing on the threshold of the children's room. - Oh, hi!

He looked in surprise at the two children who were sitting in the clearing eating lunch. Behind them was a pool and a yellow veld; overhead is the hot sun. He had sweat on his forehead.

Where are the father and mother?

The children turned to him with a smile.

They will come now.

Okay, it's time to go.

Mr. McClean noticed lions in the distance - they were fighting among themselves because of something, then they calmed down and lay down with prey in the shade of trees.

Shielding his eyes from the sun with his hand, he took a closer look.

The lions finished eating and one by one went to the watering place.

A shadow passed over Mr. McClean's flushed face. Lots of shadows. Vultures descended from the dazzling sky.

A cup of tea? Wendy's voice sounded in the silence.

Automated house "Everything for happiness", which is owned by the spouses George and Lily Hadley, thanks to the built-in mechanisms, does absolutely all the work for people. Among other things, the house has a children's room (veld). Created using the latest technology, it is able to recreate the atmosphere of any presented place. Children Wendy and Peter are very attached to this room and no longer imagine their life without it, they spend all their free time there.

We gave the children everything they asked for. And what we get as a reward - disobedience, secrets from parents ...

This room begins to disturb the spouses, because from time to time a lion's growl and cries that seem familiar can be heard from there. Suspecting something is wrong, the parents enter the room when their children are out. They see lions eating some kind of prey. The Hadleys are concerned that their children are fascinated by scenes of the death of living beings. In addition, adults themselves have recently become more irritable. The woman sees the reason for this in the fact that now the house does everything for them.

The children who returned home assure that they do not visualize any Africa. Going up to the nursery, George Headley discovers that the African panorama has disappeared. In the room, a man discovers his wallet with traces of fangs and blood stains, it is not clear how it got into the nursery. Concerned parents turn to a familiar psychiatrist David McClin.

The psychiatrist says that it's a bad thing - they spoiled their offspring too much. According to him, parents should turn off the room, and preferably the whole house, and bring their children to him for a year. The men look around the room and find Lily's bloodied scarf. McClean leaves.

A child cannot live without attachments. You and your wife have allowed this room, this home, to take your place in their hearts. The children's room became mother and father for them, turned out to be much more important in their life than real parents.

Children throw a tantrum and beg to let them into the room again, even if only for one minute. Yielding to persuasion, the parents go to meet them. The couple hear their children's names, run to their call to the children's room, but do not find either Wendy or Peter there. The door slams, after which the husband and wife hear their son's order to the house: "Don't let them turn off the children's room and the whole house." Behind Lily and George, lions appear heading towards them. Parents understand why the screams coming from the room were so familiar - it was their screams.

Appearing David McClean finds children having breakfast in the veld, in the distance he sees predators eating something.

Conclusion of the work of Ray Bradbury Veld

Answers:

Bradbury foresaw much of what we see in life today. His classic novel "451 Fahrenheit" is a prediction of the onset of obscurantism in totalitarian states. "Veld" is a prediction of a general insanity on the Internet (which did not exist at that time!), virtual reality, aggressive computer games, a prediction of alienation and hostility of people even in families. Children actually grow up not in a family, not with their parents, but in the virtual world of predators, for them, father and mother are just a means to satisfy the thirst for exciting primitive instincts. This savagery of the young generation is brought in the story to a fantastic, conditional level: predators escaping (on the orders of children who are tired of their parents' remarks) from the screen wall attack their parents and, judging by their terrible cries, devour them. So this fantastic story is a wise warning to mankind. The impression, of course, is terrible.

Children have committed a crime that cannot be justified. Having committed the murder of their parents, Peter and Wendy killed themselves, their own soul. Until they figured it out. This is what a talented science fiction writer made us think about. Bradbury warns readers about the danger of manifestations of evil, cruelty and violence, from indifference, from the pursuit of material goods, which give only imaginary happiness, teaches critical reflection on their actions.

Home for happiness. Lesson of extracurricular reading based on the story of Ray Bradbury "Veld"

Goals :

1. Teach problem analysis of the work:

to form the ability to see the means of expressing the topic, ways of solving

the problems posed, the ability to identify artistic means in the text

expressiveness, to see the role of the detail.

2. To develop students' creative activity; ability to find and identify

the main thing; ability to compare.

3. Form the desire to comply with ethical and moral standards

life; the ability to distinguish between true and false values; develop spiritual

Equipment:

story "Veld";

student drawings.

Recording of the song by E. Krylatov "Beautiful is far away"

Student essays

slide reproductions on the theme "House"

the story of S.T. Aksakov "Childhood of Bagrov-grandson"

Introductory speech of the teacher

Ray Bradbury is a famous American science fiction writer. His works are very interesting, and you have already seen this.

What Bradbury stories have you read?

Let's remember interesting facts from the life of Bradbury. (Showing cards. Children remember facts)

a unique memory possessed a unique memory. He remembered himself almost from birth.

Great-grandson of the sorceress there was a legend in the family about a witch in their own pedigree, as if burned at a witch trial

Uncle Lester's jacket - after graduation, they couldn’t buy a jacket for him, he had to go to the prom in the costume of his late uncle, who died at the hands of a robber, The bullet holes on the belly of the jacket were neatly mended.

Works by F.M. Dostoevsky - was the main author.

Instead of college did not go to college. college was replaced by libraries

Margaret _wife, all her life helped to work on books

Children -4 daughters

profession - writer -at the age of 12 I realized that I wanted to be a writer, and I was seriously engaged in only this one thing

profession-cinema- during his life he wrote many screenplays. The film “Moby Dick” is considered the most successful. The series “Ray Bradbury Theater” became the biggest film project

car number- in the office, the car number F-451 is nailed to the wall, but he himself never got behind the wheel, because. As a child, I saw 2 terrible accidents. Terrible impressions remained with him forever

Bradbury - poet - As a child, I went to study in a poetry circle - I didn’t like it. And then one day, when the writer was already 41, the editor of the football magazine E called him to order an article about football). Bradbury refused Although Bradbury loved football, and his brother was a professional footballer in his youth.

Having refused the customer, Bradbury hung up and plunged into memories of the old days and his brother. Unexpectedly for himself, he sat down at a typewriter and wrote an eight-page poem about the seasons, people and the game itself. Bradbury considered it silly to send poetry to a football magazine, but he sent it anyway. And he received a check for $ 500 the next morning - no one had ever accepted his work so quickly. The poem was published in a magazine, and in speed even reprinted on the cover.

Encouraged, Bradbury began to write poetry. For the next 15 years, he wrote poetry every day. More than a dozen collections have been published in the writer's homeland. They have not been translated into Russian.

Bradbury architect (show slide»

developed several concepts for the firm Zherde ("Zherde Partnership"). From them grew a new city mall "Horton Plaza", built in 1985 in San Diego (California) for 140 million dollars. Bradbury formulated the concept for it in the essay “The Aesthetics of Lostness”: the writer praised the delight of the feeling that one can feel when wandering the streets of Paris, London or New York and getting lost in them, without anxiety, but experiencing a “divine” feeling of being lost.

Horton Plaza, with its four stepped and intersecting floors, balconies, hidden niches, sudden dead ends, colonnades, invites the visitor to get lost for a short time, giving him a feeling of being lost. Unlike the design of conventional malls, which is all about making the buyer think less about where to go and more looking at the windows, this project, in which the mall itself, and not the stores, was the center of attention (which put the whole idea with upside down) was an extremely risky project. However, the risk paid off with a vengeance: 25 million people visited the mall in a year. To this day, it remains the largest shopping center in the city. Gerde assures that "Bradbury's influence on the project was all-encompassing.

what about my gravestone

“What about my gravestone? I would like to borrow an old lamppost in case you wander to my grave at night to say “Hi!”. And the lantern will burn, turn and weave some secrets with others - weave forever. And if you come to visit, leave an apple for the ghosts.”

Bradbury's predictions came true (prototype of modern social networks in 1935, headphones, player, radio bracelet, 24-hour ATMs, flat-panel TVs, virtual reality rooms, satellite surveillance, cars with artificial intelligence.

Some time ago, you wrote an essay on the theme of "House for happiness" and drew the house of your dreams. You wrote about your dream. I carefully read your essays, which turned out to be very similar in many ways. In from an exemplary house of happiness: large, it has a huge aquarium, a 3.5D cinema, beautiful luxurious furniture. various gadgets. And wat only a few works I postponed. Why? I'll tell you at the end of the lesson. Now let's turn to the text.

Work with text

The activities of the teacher. Questions

Student activities. Suggested answers

1. The Hadley family lives in a house with a promising name "Everything for happiness". It has everything that you dreamed about in your writings. The best minds of mankind puzzled over projects of houses of this kind. Note: absolute material security, complete comfort, heavenly Existence

How much does a house cost?

2Why did Lydia and George Headley buy an expensive house?

it costs $30,000

That's why we bought this house, so that we don't have to do anything ourselves."

3. What are the technical marvels of the house?

4 How did he arouse the admiration of the owners?

The bath automatically washed family members, the automatic table obediently served various dishes. There were talking clocks, shoe shiners, mechanical sponges, washcloths, toothbrushes, and towels in the house. rocking beds, accompanying light.

The house "dressed, fed, groomed, rocked, sang and played."

5 The Hadley family was especially proud of the children's room. "One hundred and forty-four square meters, height - ten meters." Why George was not stingy to purchase this "miracle of perfection"

6What is the purpose of the children's room in the opinion of the parents, the doctor, the creators of the room?

7What is the working principle of the room?

8What attracted Peter and Wendy, ten-year-olds, to her?

9What did the father observe when he entered the nursery?

Children should receive all the best, ”said the father.

A source of fun, entertainment; help children get rid of neuroses, develops imagination, helps to study the psyche of children, correct it.

Hidden odorophones brought a wave of smells, making the fantasy world called to order tangible, real. Luminous rooms, color surround film. The nursery accurately caught the telepathicemanation (materialization of thought) It is enough to send a mental order, and it will be executed. (write on the board)

They literally did not leave the nursery: after all, it turns any of their fantasies into reality. Children called their favorite heroes of fairy tales that they read.

"met Alice in Wonderland or the False Turtle...(p. 3)

10 Interesting, right? But soon Lydia Hadley felt her uselessness. In what words do we hear it?

11 How has George changed?

12 Parents felt uncomfortable in their own home. Moreover, they became scared! Why? (show slide)

13 When does the line between fiction and reality begin to disappear in a story? And what impression does this make on readers?

14 Why did this happen? How does the doctor answer this question?

I don't seem to be here for anything. The house is a wife, and a mother, and a maid.”

He became nervous, began to smoke more than usual, increased the dose of sleeping pills. But the worst thing is that the parents gradually became not needed by the children.

Peter and Wendy have recently started playing African Veld. Lydia and George heard screams of pain and horror all day long. The lions tore someone to pieces, and the vultures pecked at the remains, gnawed at the bones. The children played death. Once adults barely escaped from the lions that rushed at them. And this is in your own home!

When they find George's wallet and Headley's scarf in the children's room

The answer to this question was convincingly given by a psychiatrist invited for a consultation: “A child cannot live without attachments. You and your wife allowed this room, this house, to take your place in their hearts. lives are more important than real parents.”

15. What do you think the parents should have done when they heard such a conclusion from the doctor?

Firstly, in any way to improve relations with children, because they are only ten years old! Adult people had to find words of love that their son and daughter had not heard for so long. Having created ideal conditions for children to play, parents withdrew from their upbringing, deprived their children of parental warmth, and ceased to be an example for them. Family ties were severed. The family collapsed. Childish love and affection began to belong to the room. This is nonsense!

16. Fear settled in the house.

What artistic details does the writer use when describing the veld to make us feel the growing danger?

17 What expressive means does the author use to depict the growing danger. Find epithets that convey, smell, temperature, color? What color prevails? Find a metaphor that describes Africa in a children's room?

a) Constant screams from the nursery.

b) The door trembled, "as if from a blow from within." The lions tried to escape.

c) The head of the family found in the nursery a bloody scarf of his wife and his wallet with traces of blood and teeth of lions.

d) The picture of the veld is unpleasant. The pungent smell of animals, the drying smell of grass, the smell of blood; Sounds are the rustling tread of crouching predators, the noisy breathing of lions, the distant clatter of antelope hooves; Temperature is hot air. Comparisons - The rays of the sun are like a touch of a hot paw, dust is a cloud of red pepper. For the past month, George “heard the roar of a lion, even in his office he smelled a sharp smell of predators.”

e) The abundance of yellow disturbed, created nervousness. The sun is hot and yellow in the sky. The grass is withered, that is, dirty - yellow, withered. Yellow color of lion skins. Creepy yellow-green eyes of predators.

Metaphor - now we have a furnace that breathes murder

18 Parents saw that their children have become unbearable: they do not obey, they live their own lives. How have they changed?

19. Parents and children are like two islands between which there is no connection. How does the author emphasize the inner emptiness of children, their selfishness through appearance and intonations in dialogues?

Firstly, they stopped playing good fairy tales, replacing them with bloody veld.

Secondly, they learned to be hypocritical, to lie.

The writer also draws attention to their eyes, “bright blue balls”, devoid of thought, not expressing any feelings. They have a veld in their souls. it's not monstrous? Intonation in the dialogues:

“Sharply asked”, “coldly pronounced”, “I advise you to think, father”

20 Why did lions settle in a room intended for games and children's fantasies and why do children hide the veld from their parents?

21 Why do parents want to lock their room from children?

22 What prompted the dramatic events?

23 How did the children react to the father's decision?

24 How did you guess that the children planned a terrible7

25 What advice did the doctor give parents?

26But the parents showed youthfulness. What happened?

The children developed aggression towards their parents and fears that in order to maintain their strength, the children tame the Veld.

They have lost contact with the children.

George's decision to leave with the whole family for a month, after turning off all the machines in the house, including the children's room.

“They were screaming, jumping, throwing things. They were yelling, sobbing, cursing, running around the rooms.”

They perceived the decision of their father as the murder of a room and were very worried.

The children decided to attach their parents-father's purse.mother's scarf.

"Immediately turn off this damned room and bring children to procedures for at least a year." In this case, the nursery, instead of getting rid of destructive inclinations, encourages them!

Parents showed cowardice and "for a minute" turned on the room. The children took advantage of the chance, thinking to lure them to death

27 How did you feel when you read to the end? Shock

28 Let's return to the name of the house of heroes "Everything for happiness." The inhabitants of the house were unhappy. Why?

Dasha had an individual task to read excerpts from the story by S.T. Aksakov "Childhood of Bagrov the grandson." It was necessary to find points of intersection with the story "Veld"

A carefree life in the house created an illusion of happiness for the boy and girl, but it is impossible to be happy with hatred and sin in the soul

All this splendor imperceptibly destroyed in children independence, the joy of knowing the world.

The general is the theme of the family, the relationship between parents and children, but

In the story "Veld" the author never called them a family, but in Asakov's story this word is read between the lines. In the story written in! (Century, the mother is constantly next to her son, they talk a lot, the boy reads a lot. In the story "Veld" a terrifying lion, and in Aksakov's "grateful lion" is a biblical lion, where holy words turned wild beast into a “grateful” lion. And the second image is a boy dressing himself, and an automatic lacer from the Veld.

Reflection.

Speak about today's lesson using the suggested sentence beginnings:

It was interesting to me..

I learned..

I understood how to.

It was hard for me..

I realized that..

My feelings...

The music of E. Krylatov “Beautiful is far away” sounds. It seems to me that this song about “beautiful far away” reflects the content of the lesson.

And now I’ll answer. Why I postponed several works .. In these works, I saw a desire to make a house where I wanted to come with friends, there is a room in which the whole family gathers and does a common thing. I think that in such a house, indeed, everyone will be happy.

DZ Do you want to change something in your house for happiness, remove or add something. This is your homework.

Sections: Literature

Goals:

education of tolerance;
condemnation of cruelty and indifference;
formation of linguistic skills of students.

Equipment:

story "Veld";
student drawings.

Introductory speech of the teacher

Ray Bradbury is a famous American science fiction writer. His works are very interesting, and you have already seen this. (Many of the writer's stories have been read in advance). The heroes of Bradbury, trying to solve the difficult problems of life, sometimes find themselves in dramatic situations. So it happened with the characters of the story "Veld". (The teacher turns to children's drawings, listens to young artists, compares images of the house, portraits of heroes.)

Work with text

The activities of the teacher. Questions	Student activities. Suggested answers
1. The Hadley family lives in a house with the promising name "Everything for happiness." Why did Lydia and George Headley buy an expensive house? After all, it costs $30,000.	1. “Children should get all the best,” said the father. “... that's why we bought this house, so that we don't have to do anything ourselves.” For the development of children, for their games, parents bought a house with a unique children's room.
2. What is the principle of working from home? What did he arouse the admiration of the owners?	2. The house "dressed, fed, groomed, rocked, sang and played." The bath automatically washed family members, the automatic table obediently served various dishes. There were talking clocks, shoe shiners, mechanical sponges, washcloths, towels in the house... All this splendor imperceptibly destroyed independence in children, the joy of knowing the world.
3. A special pride of the Hadley family was the children's room. “One hundred and forty-four square meters, ten meters high.” How did she attract Peter and Wendy, ten-year-olds?	3. Children literally did not leave the nursery: after all, it turns any of their fantasies into reality. Hidden odorophones brought a wave of smells, making the fantasy world evoked by order tangible, real.
4. Interesting, right? But soon Lydia Hadley felt her uselessness. “I'm kind of useless here. The house is a wife, and a mother, and a maid.” And her husband has also changed. He became nervous, began to smoke more than usual, increased the dose of sleeping pills. But the worst thing is that the parents gradually became not needed by the children. Why did it happen?	4. The answer to this question was convincingly given by a psychiatrist invited for a consultation: “A child cannot live without attachments. You and your wife have allowed this room, this home, to take your place in their hearts. The children's room became mother and father for them, turned out to be much more important in their life than real parents.
5. What do you think the parents should have done when they heard such a conclusion from the doctor?	5. First, in any way to build relationships with children, because they are only ten years old! Adult people had to find words of love that their son and daughter had not heard for so long. Having created ideal conditions for children to play, parents withdrew from their upbringing, deprived their children of parental warmth, and ceased to be an example for them. Family ties were severed. The family collapsed. Childish love and affection began to belong to the room. This is nonsense!
6. Parents became uncomfortable in their own home. Not only that, they were scared!	6. Peter and Wendy have recently started playing African Veld. Lydia and George heard screams of pain and horror all day long. The lions tore someone to pieces, and the vultures pecked at the remains, gnawed at the bones. The children played death. Once adults barely escaped from the lions that rushed at them. And this is in your own home!
7. Fear settled in the house. What artistic details does the writer use to make us feel the growing danger?	7. a) Constant screams from the nursery. b) The door trembled, “as if from a blow from within.” The lions were trying to get out. c) The head of the family found in the nursery a bloody scarf of his wife and his wallet with traces of blood and teeth of lions. d) The picture of the veld is unpleasant. The acrid smell of animals, the rustling tread of crouching predators. Hot air. The rays of the sun are like the touch of a hot paw. And the smell of blood. We pay attention to comparisons, to epithets, to the role of verbs that create a believable picture of the veld. For the last month, George “heard the roar of a lion, even in his office he smelled a sharp smell of predators.” e) The abundance of yellow disturbed, created nervousness. The sun is hot and yellow in the sky. The grass is withered, that is, dirty - yellow, withered. Yellow color of lion skins. Creepy yellow-green eyes of predators.
8. Parents saw that their children have become unbearable: they do not obey, they live their own lives. Parents and children are like two islands with no connection between them.	8. First, they stopped playing good fairy tales, replacing them with bloody veld. Secondly, they learned to be hypocritical, to lie. The writer also draws attention to their eyes, “bright blue balls”, devoid of thought, not expressing any feelings. They have veld in their souls. The boy and girl thought out and cold-bloodedly put into action a plan to kill the closest people, mother and father. Isn't it monstrous?
9. What was the impetus for dramatic events? How did the children react to the father's decision?	9. George's decision to leave with the whole family for a month, having previously turned off all the machines in the house, including the children's room. “They were screaming, jumping, throwing things. They yelled, sobbed, scolded, rushed about the rooms. They perceived the decision of their father as the murder of a room and were very worried.
Output. Parents showed cowardice and “for a minute” turned on the room. They forgot about the warning of the psychiatrist, who advised "immediately turn off this damned room and bring children to procedures for at least a year every day." This means that the children were seriously mentally disturbed. “In this case, the nursery, instead of getting rid of destructive inclinations, encourages them!”
10. Bradbury called the house of his heroes “Everything for happiness”, but the inhabitants of the house were unhappy: both parents and children. Why? What do you think makes a person happy?		10. Pupils express their opinions, giving examples from life, from films they have watched, from books.

III. What did the story make you think?

Children have committed a crime that cannot be justified. Having committed the murder of their parents, Peter and Wendy killed themselves, their own soul. Until they figured it out.

A carefree life in the house created an illusion of happiness for the boy and girl, but it is impossible to be happy with hatred and sin in the soul. This is what a talented science fiction writer made us think about. Bradbury warns readers about the danger of manifestation of evil, cruelty and violence, teaches critical reflection on their actions.