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There Will Come Soft Rains Analysis
In the story "There will come soft rains" there is a house that is run by advanced technology but the family that use to live there got blown up by a nuclear bomb but the house survived. There is also a poem called "There will come soft rains" and it is based on the great world war.
Now in the poem it is talking about war and how even though the world is going through tough times and is not doing good nature will still be able to go on even without man kind. It also talks about how the technology is advanced because the house has very advanced technology. It was written in the 1950 so it was after the war. It also states that the technology can be abused and used in the wrong way.
The story is based on a house in 2025 and a house runs by it

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