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Priya and Choi continue to discuss “The Veldt” and shift the focus to the characters in the story,...

Priya and Choi continue to discuss “The Veldt” and shift the focus to the characters in the story, specifically in the following excerpt.
“Everything. Where before they had a Santa Claus now they have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santa. You’ve let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children’s feelings. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there’s hatred here. You can feel it coming out of the sky. Feel that sun. George, you’ll have to change your life. Like too many others, you’ve built it around creature comforts. Why, you’d go hungry tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn’t know how to cook an egg. All the same, turn everything off. Start new. It’ll take time. But we’ll make good children out of bad in a year, wait and see.”
What do you think the author is implying about the relationship between George and his children?
George and his children have a healthy, loving relationship.
George has established strong boundaries between his children and their technology.

Answer

The author implies that technology has replaced George and his wife in their children’s affections, weakening their relationship. The children resent George for threatening to take away the room they now regard as their parent. Neither of the two visible answer choices accurately expresses this implication.

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