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.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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.
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.
Monday, February 25, 2013
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.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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.
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-softrains/char.html
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.
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-softrains/char.html
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