What Is The Mood Of The Veldt

In “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, the author puts off a moral that you would rather be safe than sorry. In the story, a very wealthy family has a nursery that produces whatever you think or say and brings it to life, but the parents seem to notice that something is wrong with it. Instead of coming up with what they say, the veldt (nursery) creates hungry, vicious lions. They are faced with a difficult decision of either shutting down the nursery, which would make their children furious, or keeping it alive. The safe decision would’ve been to turn it off to ensure that nobody gets hurt, but they instead keep it on and end up being eaten by the lions. Bradbury focuses deeply on using a specific craft move to portray a certain mood. Repetition is something he uses to keep bringing up the topic of lions and how they play a big part in the dystopian story. This helps build suspense in the story and also supports the theme. In the beginning, Ray Bradbury uses repetition in a

He describes them in great detail to make sure the readers paint a picture in their heads of what the lions look like and so that they remember that lions are a main part of the story, but also so the thought of lions stays in the back of your mind throughout the brief novel. An example of this is,
“And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellow of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and the smell of the heat from the panting, dripping mouths.”.
This quote explains how vivid Ray Bradbury makes the lions seem to the parents, and how much the creatures threaten