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There Will Come Soft Rains
Thematically, "There Will Come Soft Rains" has a focus on technology and its power. What I like about this story is how Bradbury presents two sides of a technology debate. One side of the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The house, which continues to function after its inhabitants have been vaporized in a nuclear holocaust, is described in personifying metaphors, such as "it had shut up its windows and drawn shades...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The title of Sara Teasdale’s poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” symbolizes the passage of time and renewal. It is a prediction of what is to come, and indicates the cycle of life. She...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In literary terms, "mood" is the emotional atmosphere evoked by a piece. In this story, the house's repetition of the time draws our attention to a devastating, sad change. It also contributes to...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Despite the fact that the automated house in Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" has started the day by making announcements and cooking breakfast, there is no sign of humans....
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There Will Come Soft Rains
An allusion is a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. There are three important allusions in Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains."...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
There are several ways to answer the question of why an author wrote something, and with a writer like Bradbury, there may be more answers than with some others. To start, Bradbury was a...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In this story, Bradbury does not explain in any detail what has happened to the city of Allendale. Instead, he gives descriptive clues to make the reader aware that there has been a nuclear blast...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
I'm not sold on the concept of Allendale, California being "perfect," but I do think it is a good choice for this story's setting. California is a leader in the technology industry. There's an...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In this story, Bradbury shows the dangerous side of technology. In this scenario of the future, people have let technology dominate their lives. As a result, they developed technological weapons...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The last thing the house says in Ray Bradbury's short story is the following line: Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is. . . The line wraps up the entire story in a nice...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
I think that the tone of this short story shifts during the story. In the beginning of the story, the tone is one of loneliness. The house in the story is smart, but Bradbury has given the house...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
I'll start with the setting of this story in broad detail. The story takes place in Allendale, California. The year is 2026. That year doesn't sound all that far off right now, but Bradbury...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The theme of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is an ironic commentary on the state of mankind in a post-atomic world. On one hand, humans have advanced to the point that they...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Bradbury makes frequent use of personification, attributing personal or human-like traits to a number of inanimate objects in the story. In some cases, Bradbury describes inanimate objects as if...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The source of the voices in the house is the house itself. How many voices are speaking in the house is unknown, but I know at least two different voices are present. When the story begins, readers...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
I believe that “There Will Come Soft Rains” was clearly intended to warn people of the time about the problems that could happen in their world if they did not change their ways. Like other...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury's 1950 story "There Will Come Soft Rains" features a third-person omniscient point of view. This means that the narrator observes and describes action but does not participate in it...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In "There Will Come Soft Rains," the house's timed activities reflect the routine of the average family. The first event of the house's timed sequence of work takes place at seven in the morning....
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Though he was fascinated with and inspired by technological growth, Ray Bradbury also possessed profound fears about its potentially destructive and dehumanizing effects. In "There Will Come Soft...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
I remember the first time reading this story. I thought it was so cool. I didn't quite understand the poem, and I definitely didn't understand the poem as it compared with the story. Then my...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In "There Will Come Soft Rains," so many things are happening at once because the house is programmed to execute multiple functions at specific times in the day. The house is a marvel of modern...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is a post-apocalyptic story focusing on the aftermath of a nuclear war in which all human life has been destroyed. The radioactive glow is evidence that...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The chronology is important in this story because it creates suspense and helps the reader understand the effect of no longer having humans. Is time important when there are no longer people around...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The main message that the world could continue without humans is the same, but the messages of the story and poem differ slightly. The poem is about the destructive nature of humans, especially due...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The house was inhabited by a family of four before the nuclear blast killed them. The house in the story is fully automated. Its job is to take care of its family, which consists of a mother, a...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The ticking noise represents the technology and the impact it has had on the house as time passes. Something terrible happened in this story that turned the people into nothing but spots in paint....
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The falling action is the destruction of the house from the fire. Falling action is the part of the plot between the climax and the resolution. The climax is the turning point of the plot, and...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The McClellan family in "There Will Come Soft Rains" seem to be reasonably affluent. Their house is in a California suburb and the parents enjoy bridge, martinis, gardening, art, music and...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The automated house, which is the main character in Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," is destroyed by a fire. Ironically, the house survives an atomic blast but falls prey to...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
One of the key elements of this story is the theme that technology and human innovation can be destructive. This theme would not be as effective if the story were set in the past, where there was...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The author uses italics to show what the clock is saying, and regular quotation marks for the other electronic voices. The house is fully automated, and the different devices talk, trying to...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The house will never realize its inhabitants are gone. It does not have consciousness. The house is a robot. It is sort of like plugging in your television. You could leave your television on...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The title is a reference to a poem, and to the catastrophe that killed all of the people. The title tells us right away that the story takes place in the future. You have to remember that it was...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Mood is the emotion caused by reading the poem. A poem might be sad, happy, excited, passionate, or mourning, just like a person. Any mood that a person has can be found in poetry. This little...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The automated house in Ray Bradbury's futuristic short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is empty of people because the city has been destroyed by a nuclear attack. In the story's text, the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a poem by Sara Teasdale first published in 1920, in the immediate aftermath of the first world war. The poem expresses an apocalyptic vision of war and the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is Ray Bradbury's futuristic short story about an automated house which goes about its daily business despite the fact that the inhabitants have been killed in a...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
By "mirage" I will assume you are referring to the walls and floor of the children's nursery which, at "Four-Thirty" come alive with scenes from nature, including "yellow giraffes" and...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
If a director were to make a film of exactly the text of "There Will Come Soft Rains," I do not believe that it would make a good film adaptation. It has actually been done before; in 1984, it was...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The main house in "There Will Come Soft Rains" is the last functioning home in the city after a nuclear war. This is evidenced both by the absence of people and by the revelation, at ten-fifteen,...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
While "The Veldt" is a critique on neglectful parenting, the reason for the neglect is caused by an unhealthy reliance on technology. The general theme of the danger of technology is illustrated in...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Throughout the story "There Will Come Soft Rains," Ray Bradbury includes certain details that create a desolate, sad setting, including a description of what happens to Allendale, California after...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains,” is the quintessential post-apocalyptic short story. Over the course of a day, a computerized house tends to its duties, unaware that its family,...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Apparently having been exposed to radiation, the dog suffers from several conditions, but is able to make it to the front door of his home. This dog, who was once large and robust, now appears...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In "There Will Come Soft Rains," Bradbury presents a contrasting view of machines and technology. On the one hand, technology has made life easier and more comfortable for people. The house and its...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
After nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII, scientists and the military discovered that objects and people within a close radius of the point of impact created what are...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
This story was written at a time (1950s) when the threat of nuclear war was becoming more and more plausible. This story describes a time in the future when humans have destroyed themselves in a...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” was first published in 1950, a time when a technological utopia seemed right around the corner. Many people believed that the ‘house...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
The repetition of the time by the house is one of Bradbury's literary expressions of science and technology substituting for human thought. After the nuclear blast, this repetition becomes...
