There Will Come Soft Rain By Ray Bradbury

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.

John Foulcher writes interesting poetry because he can make the reader see, feel, and think. Summer Rain , demonstrate to the reader that Foulcher’s poetry is not only thought provoking and realistic, but it is also able to capture aspects of society through his unique use of imagery.

Through their work of literature, author form their thoughts and cautions into words, hence, the following accounts are enriched in momentous warnings. In the two short stories, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the authors deliver their warnings about human civilization and the harm they’ll bring upon themselves. In the first account, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, Bradbury, through the use of personification, emphasizes how one’s dependence on technology will bring upon one’s demolition. Moreover, in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the author delivers a consequential warning of violent and harmful rituals that should be disposed of. The author successfully delivers this warning through the use of irony. In

Many centuries after the first spaceship landed on the moon, a group of brave rocket men and women did the unbelievable. The short story “All summer is a day”, by Ray Bradbury, takes place in the underground city of the planet Venus where tunnels roamed instead of streets. The land above them was submerged with endless pouring rain and deadly jungles. The sight of the sun was a rare miracle that only happened once every seven years. The children spent all their life in the enclosed underground tunnels, well all except for one. Margot was the only child who came to Venus when she was four, and the biggest difference was that she still remembered the times when the glowing sun gave warmth and hope.

Piles of trash and waste all over the ground and on every beach. Is this the future of our planet? It might be if nothing is done to protect the Earth. One day devoted to preventing this situation is Earth Day, April 22nd, which is not as popular as a holiday as it should be. Starting in 1970, Earth Day was created to show the increasing concern for our planet due to the occurring nuclear wars and pollution build up (Earth Day Network). The holiday encourages using less technology and getting outside to clean up and enjoy the nature Earth offers. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”, William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much with Us”, and Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” are all examples of why we should focus less on what

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.

One of the factors that decide whether the fiction is literary or commercial is the plot of the story. The distinction of the plot of commercial fiction is that the story is unconventional the ending is not really clear, rather ambiguous. In this story especially, there is a lot to discuss the

Imagine if a person could actually prophesize the future. Try to imagine what the future will hold as individuals, artificial intelligence, and world peace. Ray Bradbury was a poet and writer of idealistic futuristic scenarios and horror. Although he did not want to be classified as a Science Fiction writer, he was exactly that in the eyes of his readers and critics. Ray Bradbury wrote two short stories composed of his ideals of the future: “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “All Summer in a Day. “ Both of these two short stories show a futuristic outlook on life for humans and humanity; although the concepts are expressed differently. “There Will Come Soft Rains” shows the fate of the human race and the end of humanity. Bradbury describes

Literary and commercial fiction are the two types of fiction that Authors all over the world present to readers. Commercial fiction always entertains readers and this is the point, to provide a story that anyone can enjoy. Literary fiction does not offer a clear way for one to understand and literary fiction is not created to be understood. Literary fiction makes readers do all the work and find meanings all by oneself. It is vital to be able to determine a literary work from a commercial one to fully grasp a work and the methods to determining one from another is easier than one thinks.

Ray Bradbury’s work “There Will Come Soft Rains” also shows the possibility of humans creating technology and inadvertently wiping out the human race. The story begins with the living room voice-clock singing “[t]ick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would” (Bradbury 1). The house proceeds with the daily chores of making breakfast, cleaning, and preparing a bath. However, readers can safely assume that there are no signs of human life and the house is completely “empty” (1).

“August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” is a story written by Ray Bradbury. The story opens in a living room of a well technologically advance house, where a clock which is voice activated yells out the time, making sure everyone gets up, and also makes breakfast, cleans, and does just about all the household things you are to do. After we read about all the things the house does, we start to notice that the house is empty, which then leads us to learn about the silhouettes on the walls of the house, which we can infer, based on our knowledge of bombs that this is from some type of nuclear bomb. As we read on we learn that the house is the only house left standing in a pile of ruins. After a while the voice in the house starts to play one of Mrs. McClellan favorite poems, which is ironic given the type of situation that the house is unaware that has taken place, the poems talks about nature and how it will still move on and not care that mankind has wiped itself out completely. After the poem, the mood of the story changes the house catches on fire and even with all of its technology it still can’t stop the fire and burns down, the only thing that remains is a wall, which holds the clock that just keeps repeating the date August 5, 2026. From reading the story I think the author plays with the idea that nature is the only thing that can go along its track without any human interactions.

Commercial fiction has entertained and transported from the harsh reality that everyone has no choice to be a part of to a Utopia. Commercial fiction is a type of fiction that appeals to a wide audience. This type of fiction’s main purpose is to entertain readers. Literary fiction is more speific in its purpose. In “ Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “ Child By Tiger: by Thomas Wolfe, both works have clear aspects of commercial fiction and literary fiction. These two works are similar because of the characters and events that occur within the short story, however they are different because of the writing strategies and settings.

The main theme of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is technology has a lot of power, but it has its limits. “There Will Come Soft Rains” shows how technology can be both helpful and destructive. In the story, Bradbury suggests that technology is destructive by writing about a radioactive glow. “The house stood alone in a city if rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles”. (328) This evidence shows some kind of nuclear warfare caused mass destruction in the city. On the other hand, Bradbury also shows how technology can be helpful. Bradbury mentions many examples of how technology has affected everyday living. The following examples were mentioned on page 328; “In the living room, the voice clock sang”, “In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its

melancholy world of Ray Bradbury’s “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains.” In his work,

Our future will be destroyed by automated devices, nuclear warfare, less water, and more wars occurring. In future, it is most likely houses having automated devices such as Google home, which will make us lazier than we are right now. In the short story by Ray Bradbury, the house started burning and it couldn’t save itself due to no water supply and could not control its mechanism. I think our future will be less water because right now we use water in our daily lives and manufacturing goods, about 526 gallons is used per day, about more than 3000 gallons per year, and about 70% of water is used in manufacturing goods, soon fresh water will run out and we won’t be able to use it when we actually need it. I think in the future there won’t