Ray Bradbury 's August 2026 : There Will Come Soft Rains

In his intriguing story There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury portrays a dystopian future wherein all of humanity has been destroyed and all that remains is their creations, more specifically the technology they’ve created. By portraying this haunting image of a world decimated by simple human nature, Bradbury illustrates the idea that we, as a species, cannot resist our nature to expand beyond current limits and to explore unchartered territory, and in doing so, will have reached and will continue to reach places, literal and figurative, that we never should have visited or even had been willing to visit. The inevitable result is our demise.

The purpose of the story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” is to teach that technology can

With the entire population attached to their televisions, the city is no more than a “graveyard” – there is no life. The energy that once roamed the streets was consumed by mankind’s technological progress. In this future, existence is rudimentary at best, and, even though people are still breathing, people cease to remain truly alive. Alternatively, the mood that Bradbury expresses in “August 2026” is one of detachment. The mechanical house cooks, cleans, and sets reminders for the family, creating a sense of aloofness between the family and its humanity. With constant reminders of the date, time, events, and even what the family has to do next, it is evident that in this future, technology has taken over common facets of human nature. This disengagement from common tasks, even simple, mental ones, is an omen to the idea that technology will ultimately come to demolish mankind’s sense of

Technology today has advanced and impacted our way of living and the dependence on it has become a natural habit for our society. People today depend on their phones for numerous things such as, talking, messaging, driving directions, surfing the web or even to update their current Facebook status. Many people say that since they rely so heavily on technology, it has been known to weaken our society’s ability to open a book or newspaper to find information instead of looking at your phone. Technology has become a crutch for our generation today and without it we would fail. There have been inferences that technology will ruin us and lead us to extinction. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, he purveys speculation that technology is the cause of downfall in society and that nature will outlast man’s creation.

Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is a short story about a house that is completely self-sufficient. The story goes on to show what this house is capable of and how efficient this house really is. Bradbury uses literary elements such as similes, sentence structure and repetition to help the reader comprehend the tone throughout the story. Firstly, Bradbury uses a simile when he describes the destruction that the fire is inflicting upon the house, “The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air” (Bradbury 3). Through the use of descriptive similes, Bradbury is able to

In the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, the main character changes in the poem due to the effects of the fire.

In Allendale, California, there lies a lonely house whom manages to take care of it’s killed owner, Mrs. Mclellan. In the visionary short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” Ray Bradbury values personification; he gives soul and feelings to the lonely house and all of the non-living objects within it. The last standing house in Allendale, California, pursued its active, occupied agenda uninformed its owners were demolished by an atomic bomb in the year 2026. It was the last house in good condition, it was stable, and it functioned perfectly, until nature raised up. “The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes” (Bradbury 216)! Bradbury uses personification to describe how the house was lonely, didn’t have company, and how it was isolated

Twenty-three million Americans are currently addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs, according to an anonymous writer on drugfree.org. That means twenty-three million Americans live life to get high. That is the ultimate experience. Spending quality time with family and friends and enjoying life in a positive way is secondary to drugs and alcohol. While an addiction to drugs and alcohol is a gargantuan difference from what Bradbury believes, the addiction to modern technology is vast. He predicted such addictions would result in boundless efforts to satisfy the desires, comparable to how drug addicts or alcoholics act when taking drugs and alcohol. In Ray Bradbury’s writings such as The Veldt, There Will Come Soft Rains, and The Sound of Thunder,

Having spent one’s entire childhood through war and bombings can inspire many ideas, both positive and negative. From the fear of a nuclear bomb to the proud feeling of witnessing the first American man on the moon, Ray Bradbury took his experiences during World War II and the International Space Race and transformed them into literary pieces, such as “There Will Come Soft Rains”, “The Sound of Thunder”, and “The Pedestrian”. In these short stories, Bradbury includes elements of his own life into the plot, creating a message of caution to the readers through his riveting genre of dystopia. Some topics he stresses include time, technology, and its possible threats to human interaction. Through Bradbury’s unique style, he encapsulates the major issue of the rapid development in society and how it affects people in a social aspect. As new technology and science is innovated, there are many people who debate whether or not it can have harmful side effects to mankind. Among these three short stories, Bradbury uses the stylistic techniques of diction, imagery, and figurative language to convey that as society progresses through time, people lose their sense of humanity.

Freeman Dyson, an American theoretical physicist and mathematician once said, “Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences”. During the 1950’s an atomic bomb was created by J. Robert Oppenheimer an attempt to end World War II with Japan. Through this event an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author, Ray Bradbury wrote a short story, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”. It demonstrates how technology is harmful to society because of the nonexistence of human inhabitants due to industrial science. In my opinion, Electronic components is helpful to society because it can be use to alarm us and help

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, once said,“The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.” Ray Bradbury was an author that was born on August 22, 1920 and wrote many stories during his life span. In addition, during the 1950s, World War 2 was happening and many people feared the damage nuclear weapons can have after the United States attacked Japan. To add on, the story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury takes place in the future where technology has made the process of many things easier but a fire ends up overpowering the electronics in a house. Technology has improved society because it can help people be safe.

In the story technology did everything that people can do. The house made food, protected its self and keeps a schedule. Today technology can do much of the same. It can cook, protect its self and keep a schedule for us. It is not as advanced as it is in the story but by August 2026 it might be. In the story the technology did not do what it was supposed to do. It killed everyone on Earth, it failed to protect its self or its people, and it did not even realize that nobody was home. For now technology is only as smart as us, and it does not always work like we would like it too. Technology is a big part of our life today, and it can help us, but most importantly kill us. "August 2026" was spot on on its perspective of the

Could you imagine a world where technology controlled everything? In Ray Bradbury’s story “There Will Come Soft Rains” there is one house left in the city of Allendale in California. This lone house can do most functions properly all by itself without the help of a human. Even though there aren’t any humans left, the house still acts as if everything is normal. Sara Teasdale’s poem “There Will Come Soft Rains”, shows that if mankind had disappeared, nature wouldn’t be affected at all. Out of all the poems Bradbury could have chosen, he picked this one because the story and poem have a lot in common.

“In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to

I think this poem was made to demonstrate the fear of America and how they were all hoping their president knows enough to save them from this catastrophe. Many people at the time thought that the Soviets were going to destroy them and that they needed to get a satellite up there as soon as possible to show them we could do the same thing.