There Will Come Soft Rains Summary
In 1950, Ray Bradbury wrote There Will Come Soft Rains, a short futuristic story of a post-apocalyptic world in which no human being remain in this world. The setting takes place in 2026, in which an atomic bomb from a nuclear war has destroyed the remainder of the city of Allendale, California. The people were killed, the houses, the animals, and nature were all destroyed because of the nuclear blast. Some people shadow is burned into the wall, and only a few of the silhouettes remained in the western facade of a house. There are five silhouettes in paint of a man, a woman, a boy and a girl. The rest was charred as a thin charcoaled layer. However, that house is the only one left, it is a fully automated house which keeps going as it is
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The room is full of small robots of cleaning animals, all rubber, and metal. At nine o'clock, tiny robot mice from the warrens walls darted. The robot crashed into the chair and gently wiped the carpet. After finish cleaning, the robot rushed into the warrens wall and disappear like mysterious invaders. The house is completely clean and without any worries. Therefore, if something approached the house, such as a fox or a cat, it will ask for the password, but getting no answers from the animals, the house will close the window, and draw a shadow of self-protection against mechanical …show more content…
The tree branches fall from the kitchen window. The bottle of solvent was shattered above the stove. A fire erupts from the kitchen and started to take over the house. The house tries to save itself, “And the voices wailed Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone.” (Bradbury, pgs.328) The doors of the house closed tightly, but the windows were broken by the heat. The wind blew from the window, and the fire was drawn. In case, the rubble can still speak when the house collapses. “Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is... ”(Bradbury, pgs.329) Since there is no human, so all the behavior of the house have proved the house is the main
The room is full of small robots of cleaning animals, all rubber, and metal. At nine o'clock, tiny robot mice from the warrens walls darted. The robot crashed into the chair and gently wiped the carpet. After finish cleaning, the robot rushed into the warrens wall and disappear like mysterious invaders. The house is completely clean and without any worries. Therefore, if something approached the house, such as a fox or a cat, it will ask for the password, but getting no answers from the animals, the house will close the window, and draw a shadow of self-protection against mechanical …show more content…
The tree branches fall from the kitchen window. The bottle of solvent was shattered above the stove. A fire erupts from the kitchen and started to take over the house. The house tries to save itself, “And the voices wailed Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone.” (Bradbury, pgs.328) The doors of the house closed tightly, but the windows were broken by the heat. The wind blew from the window, and the fire was drawn. In case, the rubble can still speak when the house collapses. “Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is... ”(Bradbury, pgs.329) Since there is no human, so all the behavior of the house have proved the house is the main