The Bet and The Vedlt    

  If you have not read my recent blog post called The Bet and the blog post called The Veldt, I suggest you do so first.

  Anyway, The Bet and The Veldt have things in common, even though it does not look like it at first.

  For example, the characters. The parents and the banker both have control at the beginning of both stories. At the end of both stories, the kids and the lawyer have the power instead. The difference in this is that the kids have the power to let their parents live or die, but the lawyer has the power to ruin the banker financially.  

  Another thing these two stories have in common is that they both have relationships in them. The banker and the lawyer in The Bet have a relationship but it is not very good. In The Veldt, The parents and the children have a shaky relationship, the parents and the house have an okay relationship and the house and the kids just love each other. (they have a really good relationship)

  The settings in these stories are the same in some ways. They both involve houses. In The Bet, the house of the banker is the prison for the lawyer. In The Veldt, the house is alive, and does everything for the family.

     Differences    

  The settings in these stories are also different. In The Veldt, they are in the future somtime. The house is really alive. In The Bet, they are in the past in Russia.

  Another difference is the vocabulary in the stories. The Veldt has words like ororophonics, superreactionary, supersensitive and sonics in it. Instead, The Bet has words like capital punisment, pampered and liberty in it.      

Ray Bradbury - Author of The Veldt

 Anton Chekhov - Author of The Bet