The Veldt And There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury Analysis

In today's culture people use technology to their advantage all the time. They use it to hack, to learn the latest gossip, or to see breaking news around the world. But, sometimes they get obsessed and instead of a handy tool, it becomes a necessity and a lifestyle. In the story, The Veldt, Ray Bradbury uses imagery, symbolism, and internal conflict to express that misuse of technology can lead to unforeseen disadvantages.

Ray Bradbury has written several futuristic stories which portray the advancement of society. “There Will Come Soft Rains” contains technology in the house that we only dream about. Our current homes, compared to the house in Bradbury’s story, seem bland and helpless in comparison.

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.

Technology in Fahrenheit 451, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” and “The Pedestrian” plays a huge role in keeping the society safe and under control. Technology keeps the citizens happy and it prevents them from doing anything on their own. In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” the houses are completely made of technology. Everything is electronic, “In the living room the voice-clock sang...the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk,” (Bradbury). The technology wakes them up, makes their breakfast, and does many other things for them, such as clean, fill up the bathtub, and reads them poems.

Ray Bradbury, a distinguished science fiction author, once said, “.... A lot of intellectuals think science fiction is trivial. And it’s pivotal! People are walking around the streets with phones to their heads talking to someone ten feet away. We’ve killed two million people with automobiles.

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.

People don’t appear to realize that technology doesn’t care about its owners, it will continue to live until they have long since expired. Similarly, a poem titled “Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale, the inspiration for Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains, has a metaphor for technology in it. “Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly..” In this instance, the birds, trees, and all other aspects of nature are being referred to as the technology in the story; technology wouldn’t care if humans died off, it will just keep living and going through its automatic tasks.

“Technology can be a useful servant but a dangerous master” (Lange 1). In Fahrenheit 451, technology starts out seeming like a lifesaving thing, but in the end, is a life ending thing. The machine that saves Mildred from death made technology seem perfect, but the Mechanical Hound made technology seem very adverse. Technology can either destroy or repair a society because of its power.

The story began with a world of war and the humans are destroying each other and they don’t have mercy for them self. They also destroyed nature and that will leave no food or anything nutrition which will be a hard time for the humans.

Technology can be a great thing, or a bad thing. For example, an atomic bomb would be good for the people dropping it, but as for the receiving end, let’s just say they aren’t having their best day. Also, a hacking app would be good for the user, because they could get a lot of free stuff, but the places they are hacking will probably lose money. Ray Bradbury wrote “There Will Come Soft Rains,” and he has a chilling vision of what technology will be in the future.

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.

Bill Gates once spoke, “We’re changing the world with technology.” During the 1950’s, people felt great amount of fear because the Soviet Union and Americans had nuclear bombs that could’ve led the States to war. An author named Ray Bradbury wrote about science-fiction to show that technology was harmful. In the story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, by Ray Bradbury shows how technology could assists and abuse society. Therefore, technology has improved society.

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

Have you ever had a crush on someone that does not like you back? That is your relationship with technology. It seems that it would not work out, but you do not care because you have liked them since second grade. In the short story, “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury it talks about spoiled rotten kids that get such luxuries like a house that takes care of them. The Happylife Home comes equipped with a "nursery" which is a futuristic entertainment room outfitted with advanced sensory technologies that can recreate any environment, including the African veldt. This room is originally made to observe children’s thoughts. George and Lydia become very concerned when the children start using the nursery to visualize their hostility towards their parents. After George and Lydia shut down the nursery, Peter throws a tantrum, begging for just one more minute in the nursery. In that one minute, George and Lydia enter the nursery, only to discover that the lions of the African veldt are real and that Wendy and Peter have been fantasizing about killing their parents with the lion. The children watch in silence as their parents are eaten by the beasts the kids have imagined not only to be thought of, but is very real. This room, now turned into a dangerous psychotic game of death. The short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury is futuristic a story that has no characters but centers instead on the single house left standing after a nuclear blast has destroyed the remainder of