Overcast sky, dark wind, cold light, and gloomy actions are the characteristics and effects of a rainy day. Rain is often the precursor to disaster in a story because of the natural feelings of sadness that it brings. Therefore, it is appropriate that a rain motif should be present in “There Will Come Soft Rains”, written by Ray Bradbury. The rain makes a subtle but important appearance in the story, which allows certain events and objects to express their feelings more adequately in the themes of emptiness and the rising power of technology.
It was mother who decided to contribute most of the flock for feeding the village...passing out thighs and drumsticks to the little children who acted just as pleased as punch… yet for all her slaving over a hot stove, Father hardly noticed how she’d won over the crowd
As in many of Flannery O'Connor's stories, weather is an important indicator of characters' moods and important moments. As Tom Shiftlet drives off with the younger Lucynell Crater in the car, supposedly to go on a honeymoon, "The early afternoon was clear and open and surrounded by pale blue sky;" he still has a chance to redeem himself. But after he abandons her at The Hot Spot, he has lost his chance at salvation; this moment is enforced by the weather: "Deep in the sky a storm was preparing very slowly and without thunder as if it meant to drain every drop of air from the earth before it broke." After the hitchhiking boy has thrown himself out the passenger door, all is really lost for Tom Shiftlet, and "there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of Mr. Shiftlet's car."
All of this Mama and Maggie bore as a quiet audience as they watched Dee’s show, but it wasn’t over. Although their kindness, and Mama’s generosity, was being strained, ‘Wangero’ paid no thought to them, and soon she found their limit. The weight of Dee’s act was setting mainly on the shoulders of Mama as she watched Dee prance around the house, belittling everything in sight as Maggie cowered in her fear and discomfort. However, as Dee set her sights on two special quilts, heirlooms that were promised to Maggie, Mama could no longer ignore the problem. Once Dee used her relationship with her to test the relationship between her and Maggie, she was forced to act and set things straight. Finally she saw the vast gap in fortune the two girls had, and how such expectation for disappointment made Maggie give up the quilts, what little she was ever assured. Mama knew then what to do. This ungrateful, insatiable girl could no longer feed off the two of them whenever she pleased, and so Mama cut Dee from her selfish fantasies. The second Mama told her no, Dee’s attitude turned an entire 180 degrees, but Mama knew what she was doing. So with nothing left for her at the house, Dee, and her unusual accomplice, left, but not without showing more condescension by telling Maggie what she could do to be better.
“Go to your room. You ain’t going to that county fair tonight. Ya hear me?” Mama yelled.
Mama brought on her nipples, tiny breaths of inaudible sighs, vowels of delicious clarity for the little red schoolhouse of our mouths.
His mother had warned of rain. It was in the forecast, she had said in her small, fretting voice. She had urged him to wear his raincoat and to take his umbrella, but he had forgotten the umbrella in the rush of leaving, and how he thought of the five blocks he would have to walk from the Omni station to the Century National Bank, and of the morning crowd that would push against him in its hurried dash through the fine mist of the rain that had begun during the train ride from Decatur.
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Ida drew circles and lines on the paper with a crayon, when asked what did she drew she replied "mommy,daddy."
Whilst crossing off his daily chores, a glimmer, seemingly radiating from a mound of manure, had caught his eye. Some poor beast had downed the abandoned needle amidst a mouthful of its afternoon snack, and, presumably, plopped it out the next morning, fully intact. Mrs. Clarke, to her credit, stayed true to her word. Although her sewing needle returned in a somewhat grotesque, lackluster manner, she did indeed treat us to ice cream — even letting us get double
The children's mother still had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief, but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had a pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing
“…but the grandmother had on a blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue
Getting back to Papa’s conversation, he says, “I’m a man; therefore, I know about the man stuff. There is something I want you to know and the only way I know how to tell you is to say it is straight out. There is no delicate way to say this; men are vulgar creatures, Molly. They’re perversive rogues that only want one thing - to lay you down, spread your thighs and have their way with you. Don’t let your head be turned by just any boy you pass on the street. Even here in Butler County!” If I thought the woman thing scared me- what Papa said really scared me- As soon as he finished with me, I went straight to Becky’s cabin, told her what Papa had told me, and asked her what he meant.
It’s cool and dark outside of the car as we drive, dark clouds hovering over the plains as fat, heavy drops of water fall from the full clouds. The lights of cars and streetlights and cars blur with the flow of water on the side windows, our speed not fast enough to force the drops to flow back along the windows. It’s not until we start on the highway and the water starts to move that I find my objects of interest in front of me in the form of the rain and the memories of my childhood that surface with them.
After giving a detail description on “The Downpour” through the usage of amplification, personification, metaphors and similes to invoke imagery and reverberant sound, Arena eventually applies flashback to the passage. We see this where he states, “Finally I would run outside, naked, and let the rain soak me through...I was not satisfied with rolling in the grass, I wanted to fly, to fly like those birds alone in the downpour.” The writer portrays the downpour as an “extraordinary event” in the life of the child by giving the audience a personal reference to his experience in the downpour. This enables the readers to appreciate this momentous event by engaging the reader more into the passage. The writer’s awestruck tone also contributes significantly to this passage as it sets the attitude of the passage and aids setting the atmosphere. This compels the audience to imagine and almost feel like they are experiencing this event, thus, Arena successfully portrays the downpour as an “extraordinary event” in the life of the