Analysis Of August 5, 2024, By Ray Bradbury

This short story is interesting but at the same time terrifying. The author combined both the components of science fiction and mystery. But what makes this story science fiction? Bradbury combined the elements of advanced technology, such and the cleaning robotic mice that come out whenever there’s a mess, and there’s the self-servicing house that operates by itself. However there wasn’t just technology, the story was also set in a futuristic time period “August 5, 2024” as mentioned in the story. Lastly, what makes this story science fiction are the characters, although there are no people, I presume that the house is the protagonist because it is trying to save the contents inside of it. And I believe that the fire is the antagonist because
it is trying to burn down the house. But what point is the author trying to put across? I think Bradbury is trying to tell us is to protect ourselves, there will be people trying to bring us down but we need to stay strong because at the end everything will be okay.