Similarities Between Wall-E And There Will Come Soft Rains

We constantly hear we are in the ‘age of technology’. It’s crazy how much technology we use on a daily basis. It has become so routine to have technology incorporated into our daily lives that we don’t realize how much we rely on it. Who would have thought Pixar’s animation Wall-E could have so much technological awareness incorporated into the plot. The director of Wall-E created this movie with a universal message of what will happen to our society over time if we do not stop relying on technology.

In “There Will Come Soft Rains” Ray Bradbury suggests that technology is very destructive and dehumanizing. Bradbury shows this through talking about a house in the year 2026 that does everything for the humans that live in it. The house makes their food, cleans the dishes, cleans the house, and even reads to them. To some people this may sound like a good thing, but Bradburry shows how the house is not a human and it just is not the same. These are things people are meant to do and can have some meaning. Having a house doing nearly everything for you truly is dehumanizing. When he describes the houses jobs he makes them sound useless. The movements are useless because there are no people in the house, due to what Bradbury suggests was an atomic bomb by writing that the house was the only one not destroyed in a whole city, and there was a green radioactive glow throughout the city. Another way bradbury showed the house was destructive was when

WALL- E is an animated Disney Pixar movie about the future of our planet, Earth. The opening scene is a futuristic reality of our planet becoming a waste-covered landfill. WALL-E is a robot that is designed to clean up the mess and pollution humans have made throughout the decades. This movie is not only child friendly, but also is recognized as a critique on today’s society.

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.

Bill Gates once mentioned,“We’re changing the world with technology.” During the 1940s the US was in war with Japan and the US used technology to their advantage by dropping nuclear bombs on Japan and saving many Americans lives.Now technology benifits people every were. For example technology can help people clean,cook, remind us and make many things. In the story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury it mentions how technology benefits society helping with everyday tasks

This house is fully equipped with 21st century technology. Even though there are no people the house works on a specific schedule 24 hours 7 days a week. The story begins normally, alarm clock goes off and right away that’s a sign of people. What was not expected was that there is no humans beings what so ever, it was just one little house by it self, around is just rubble and debree. Since this story is written as if it was in the future, everything is automated. The house is a machine that did everything from cleaning to preparing food. Although people are not present (because of the nuclear holocaust), the house still functions. The climax of the story is when a weak tree bough crashed through the kitchen window, knocking over cleaning solvent over the stove. Instantaneously the kitchen catches fire. The house tried its best to defend itself but as we all know nature is unstoppable. This story is phenomenon; it’s very intense and has you on the edge of your seat the whole time. This story is made for the reader to visualize the actual story, as if you were actually there. All that is left is the lonely house and the wounded dog. What happens in the end really is unexpected and even sad. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain”, He uses various literary devices to warn us about the dangers of technology . Bradbury uses symbols to illustrate that humans are to dependent on technology. He uses the themes of the story to

Wall-E possessed many human characteristics that were evident throughout the movie. Some would argue that Wall-E was even more human than the humans. He showed many human characteristics but I believe that his most notable trait was his devotion. He displays his devotion to Eve when he climbed up that garbage shoot to be with her, despite how dangerous it was. He also displayed devotion to Eve when he thought that Eve was being hurt in the repair room; he panicked and tried to save her. Wall-E possessed many other human characteristics as well, such as his curiosity. He displays his curiosity when he plays with the fire extinguisher, which was an unknown object to him. Wall-E is also very loving. He shows his love for Eve when he refuses to

WALL-E is a robot who was left on Earth when it was too polluted for even people to live on it. Only one was left, and his everyday job is to go around and get trash off the ground to build these towards that look like buildings. His reason for doing this is to clean up the Earth, hopefully making it safe for humans to emigrate back to Earth. One day, WALL-E is out and about just doing his job, and he sees a red dot. Of course, he goes and follows it. It ends up leading him to a ship that came down from space, and Eve pops out. Eve, a robot sent from Earth to see if there is any plant life still on Earth. WALL-E and Eve end up becoming great friends, so great of friends that they fall in love. WALL-E is a very caring robot.

The film Wall-E shows examples of hope and love and on top of that it is like a modern day take on some stories from the Bible. Stories from the Bible have been around for a long time and stories like Adam and Eve and Noah’s Ark are reflected in the film Wall-E. One being how the axiom is like the ark from the story of Noah’s ark, and Eve is like the dove with the olive branch from the story of Noah’s ark, and in the film Wall-E the main character Wall-E was lonely before EVE came to earth, just like Adam was in the bible before God provided Eve.

Set on a futuristic earth, now completely desolate and transformed into a deserted wasteland, the movie tells the story of a 700-year-old automaton and waste disposing machine, WALL-E, who meets EVE — a vegetation and life searching robot.

The first critique presented by Professor Humphreys was centered on corporate America and the results of consumer culture. In the movie, the over consumption leads to massive amounts of garbage and as a result, everyone is forced to leave. The Earth is demoted to a garbage world and Wall-e, a "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" (Wall-e) robot, is left to clean up the world. The post-apocalyptic state of the world is blamed on capitalism and BuyNLarge, because a revolution was needed but did not happen in time.

Wall-E a suffered damage when chased by inter AUTO, brought by EVE to Earth for repairs, damage to the memory Wall-E-Wall-E lead to losing her memory about what was experienced by him over the past 700 years. However, as the story of cartoons, there is always a happy ending. Wall-E again conscious and can remember remember what he experienced. The House of humans back to Earth and restore it while Wall-E get thinking angannya, i.e., holding the hand of EVE, as a sign of love.

First of all, the setting of earth in WALL-E is clearly a resemblance of other post-apocalypse films. 28 Days Later (2002) is one obvious example of this. Both films take place in the post-apocalyptic world and the earth is portrayed as the abandoned planet. Also, there are clips within the films which describe the preceding events that commence the apocalypse.

Technology is continuously developing and has begun creating shortcuts for the American society. As a society we need to find a balance between our technological use and our everyday life. In my opinion, society has become too dependent on technology. The more advanced technology becomes, the more it seems to be gaining control over our lives. Even though technology is offering society many beneficial qualities; it also is causing many negative effects to occur. Technology is affecting society socially, mentally, and physically.

In 2002, during an interview with Wired Magazine Steven Spielberg said, “Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone” (Kennedy, para. 7). In the twentieth-first century, we all have a certain kind of technology that makes our life easier in many ways from the most basic to the most complex, such as lighting, cell phones, internet, cars, etc. When we think about technology, it suddenly reminds us of entertainment, but it provides more than entertainment, it provides us with everything. It is unthinkable that nowadays we can live without technology and yet, it influences us both positively and negatively.