THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (TONE)

1. Bradbury is showing how advanced and impressive man’s technological accomplishments are. Yet he is also cautioning us about the destructive power of our technical creations. The story’s protagonist an automated house is impressively helpful, but it is also mindless, emotionless, and meaningless after its human occupants have been killed by other technology.  Although the technologically advanced house “outlives” its human occupants, it is ultimately destroyed by a simple falling tree branch that catches it on fire.  Bradbury suggests that although technology can destroy and outlive its human creators, nature can destroy technology and all traces of humanity.  Not only are our technological and artistic accomplishments meaningless without us, they are quickly erased.

2. Actually, this story is frightening. Because it shows the dangerous of the technology. If we keep developing technology, in the future we may not talk to each other. The author wants me to cry by showing technological accomplishments. I feel so sad about this and experience anger.

3. Author wants the reader must deduce from setting details and sensory imagery that the story is set in a technologically advanced yet apocalyptic future where all humans including the occupants of the house have been killed off by an atomic bomb. 

Bradbury uses personification to transform the house from mere setting into the story’s protagonist, depicting it as a living organism. At first, the reader feels sympathy for the house which demonstrates admirable loyalty and diligence by continuing to assist with its family’s daily routines despite their absence.  But as the story continues, this automated dedication stops feeling like care and is revealed for what it truly is

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (SYMBOLISM)

1. The robots represent mans attempt to be a god, which happened to fail miserably when Bradbury writes "the house was like and altar, with 9000 robot attendants. But the gods had gone away" this shows that man is trying to be a god, and is having an attempt at creating "life", which fails, and in the end it is the same technology that kills him. The house being an altar is a symbol, and the robots attendants are a symbol.

2. Robots become tragic symbols for man's dreams and hopes gone away. Robot has symbolic meaning which is man attempt to be a god, which happened to fail miserably. We see a happy family, children playing ball, mother picking flowers and father mowing the lawn. The house kept them happy and contented "even when the world trembled."

3. There's no person in the story.

4. It contributes that technology is harmful to man but nature will always beat technology as evidenced by the tree falling and knocking over the chemicals, creating the fire that burns down the house. I find the above view to be inadequate. I think Bradbury was writing a poignant poem, lauding man's great accomplishments, but expressing sadness over our capacity to destroy ourselves. It showed our great works outliving us, still trying to serve us, but without our spark, our creativity and our presence to maintain it, it inevitably perished.

5. One symbol used throughout the story. Because it's showing all about the technology which ruins our life. 

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (IMAGERY)

1. ""Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. This story shows the similes, metaphor, and personification. So most of the story is imagery like the way that the house acted like a human.

2. A particular image makes me frightened. Because it is showing the scariness of the developing of technology.

3. The most of the story is clock's sound. Making foods or cleaning the house by robot. Everything goes around with the robot. It shows the loneliness of the future.


4. The story uses metaphor, similes, and personification. It contributes by showing loneliness and dangerous of using technology in the future.

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (POINT OF VIEW)

1.  The point of view is third person or futuristic which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story.

2. This story is conflict between human and technology, so it needs to be third person which may not participate in the events of the story.

3. The narraotr is the clock. So it is unreliable and limited knowledge. It can't be know about inner thoughts of the character.

4. The point of view conceals the story. It is conflict between human and technology, so it doesn't know the inner part and reveal it.

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (CHARACTERS)

1. The main character is The House.  it contains no human characters. Because of its anthropomorphic characteristics, its ability to act on its own, so the house itself is a character.

2.   The main character of the piece is the house itself. It is personified and assumed to be living because it is in fact, controlling everything that is going on within the house. There are no people that are controlling the cleaning and the cooking and the talking. To have the house as the main character of the piece affects the agenda of the poem because it is not talking about human beings acting in this way, it is talking about a house.

3.  House, it is personified and assumed to be living because it is in fact, controlling everything that is going on within the house.

4. The mechanical house in this story serves as an altar for everything that went wrong with humanity in the future. The house cooks, cleans and even keeps time for the family. But as man dies his machines aren't even aware of his absence, and at mans destruction we see how thoughtless all the technology, which occupies the house, is.

5. There is no character who is developing, just techonology is developing in the story.

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (SETTING)

1. Place - Allendale, California and on earth after a nuclear war.

2. Time -  The morning of August 4, 2026.

3. Social Environment-  Depicting the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war, the entire story takes place over the course one day in a single family home, deserted and ash-covered but still technologically intact.

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (PLOT)

1. The story opens with a clock announcing that It is time to wake up and a hint of premonition that perhaps no one will. In the kitchen, the stove cooks breakfast and a voice from the ceiling announces the setting: Allendale, California, on August 4, 2026.
The automated house prepares Itself for the day, but its inhabitants have not responded to several wake up calls, breakfast, the weather box, or the waiting car. The robotic mice finish cleaning the house, and it is revealed that the family who lived in the house-two parents, a daughter and son-have died. They are now "five spots of paint" against a house covered with a "thin charcoal layer." The city is in rubble and the "radioactive glow" emitted in the area indicates that an atomic blast has wiped out Allendale, if not the world.

2. The main event is when the city is described as completely destroyed and giving off a “radioactive glow which could be seen for miles”.

3. Third Person Omniscent.

4. Fast-paced.

5.  The dog whimpering and eventually dying, the nursery getting ready for the children but eventually dissolving, to the bath filling up with water and an automated poem-reader

6. It is intellectual. It can't be solved. Because it is showing dagerous of using technology. The conflict was how the house eventually destroyed itself. The main conflict is more subtle and complex.

7. The climax is when it was described that there were “five spots of paint – the man, the woman, the children, the ball – remained. The rest was a thin charcoal layer.”

8. The story is unity. It shows dangerous of technology of future. It leads naturally to the next.

9. The story is complicate. It shows the future of our lives. Everyone is using technology with everything they do.














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