There Will Come Soft Rains | Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. Find out about the house that Microsoft founder Bill Gates built in the Seattle, Washington, area. What can computers control in that house? How is it similar to the house described in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

2. Research nuclear technology. Is it possible that a bomb could destroy all human life on the planet? How accurate is Bradbury's description of the effects of the bomb, especially the idea that the blast could be so intense that it would burn the images of the people into the side of the house?

3. Find out what critics have said about Sara Teasdale's poem,...

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