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    Modern Home Over 2026 Home In “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury there is a high tech house. This house is pictured in 2026. There are many things in our modern homes that were mentioned in the story. There are also many differences‚ these differences are the technological advances. Choosing between these houses is like be challenging. Even though Ray had an interesting idea of future homes‚ ones in today’s society are more preferable. There are many reasons that today’s homes would

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    nuclear bombs which could lead to war‚ the atomic bomb was helpful because people used it in war to attack or defend their self. Ray Bradbury wrote science fiction text because he might know what was going to happen in the future. “ There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury‚ is about an electrical advanced house because their is a clock going on every 5 minutes. Therefore‚ technology has helped society. Technology has positively influence our society. One example is “Out of warrens in the wall‚

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    In the story‚ “There Will Come Soft Rains” the author‚ Ray Bradbury writes about a detrimental nuclear explosion that has wiped out the entire human race. One thing is left standing‚ a smart house which had been designed to fit the needs of a human’s everyday life. The house spends it’s day going through a scheduled routine‚ but when a tree falls through a window causing a substantial amount of damage‚ everything starts to plummet. The family is gone‚ and the house has to figure out how to survive

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    Faith Janicki Writ 102 16 February 2015 The Fall of the House of Bradbury Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains‚” includes many different literary elements to depict August fifth of 2026 and quite literally gives life to a home that continues to care for a family that no longer lives there. Putting to use some of the same strategies directors of horror movies use today‚ Bradbury creates a haunting cautionary tale about the power of technology. Bradbury makes very strategic use of a nursery

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    Ray Bradbury- “ There Will Come Soft Rains” ---Science Fiction Literature Focusing on: Themes of the story: End of the world; Apocalyptic events. Despair and Destruction of mankind and his creations. Also‚ Natures way of always taking its course‚ no matter what the circumstance. Bradbury seems to be focusing on revering man’s great accomplishments‚ but expressing sadness over our capability to destroy ourselves. It showed our vast works outliving us‚ but at the

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    imagery stories would be nothing but unimaginative and undescriptive text. In the short story “Sound of Thunder” a team of futuristic hunters travel in time to hunt a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The expedition doesn’t work out as planned. “There will Come Soft Rains” is a story about a technologically advanced home whose occupants are nowhere to be found. It is quickly realized something isn’t right. Ray Bradbury uses imagery often in both stories. It gives a sense of life and authenticity to the stories

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    tool that is found readily in Bradbury’s stories is personification. In the story‚ There Will Come Soft Rains‚ the use of personification is to build up the story due to the lack of characters in the story. In particular‚ the whole house from There Will Come Soft Rain is personified throughout the story to show off the message that the inhabitants

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    stories may have a similar trait to another piece of writing. A large amount of stories have been compared in ways such as theme‚ settings‚ characters‚ irony‚ and close evidence of foreshadowing. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and “There Will Come Soft Rains‚” by Ray Bradbury are an example of similar stories by sharing some of the same qualities. These two readings can be said to be identical in some ways by containing a common idea of negative effects of war and the value of the natural world but

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    Firstly‚ I will present the soft science fiction book There Will Come Soft Rains of Ray Bradbury. This short story is about a technological house that stands after a nuclear blast and continues doing its regular activities like cleaning and making the food. Bradbury describes the routine with an ironic perspective and compares it to the in-text citation of the poem There Will Come Soft Rains of Sara Teasdale (Bradbury 5). The ironic link between both is that

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    Dr. Lewis English 1102 February 10‚ 2014 Metaphors and Houses The story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury is full of symbolism in the form of personification. Bradbury uses this personification to paint an image of a grim and perilous future. The setting is symbolic of what the future could look like and the house represents robots taking over responsibilities. Bradbury uses personification to bring life to this house and to make his story have a bigger impact on the reader. The personification

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