Bradbury/Greene Crossover Short Answer
Tanooha V.
Franz
English II B1
10/10/13
In both “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “Inside the Home of the Future”, technology is shown as a helpful tool for humans. However, in “There Will Come Soft Rains”, technology is portrayed as dependent on human involvement in order to function properly whereas “Inside the Home of the Future” objectively supports advancements in the use of technology with a more optimistic view. For example, “The house was an altar with ten thousand servants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly” (Bradbury 328). The advanced technology enables these robots to perform countless jobs and give tremendous aide, yet they lack the rudimentary understanding that their efforts are going to waste. Through the use of a metaphor, the importance of the humans’ presence is emphasized, showing that without people for these robots to attend to, this brilliant technology is of no use. However, Greene states that, “Researchers and commercial labs around the country are building experimental homes to test technology that could make domestic life easier and extend the independence of older homeowners” (Greene 337). The speaker believes that this transition into smarter homes will be beneficial to humans. Through the usage of diction, the positive, approving tone Greene has towards this technology is shown. Technology and the future implications it imposes are controversial as portrayed by Bradbury and Greene, but they still concur on one point. Through the use of both a metaphor and diction, the authors of “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “Inside the Home of the Future” express the capability of technology to help people in their day-to-day life, but Bradbury emphasizes the dependence of human involvement without which, technology cannot truly serve its purpose and Greene places more importance on the extra care that technology can provide for the elderly
Franz
English II B1
10/10/13
In both “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “Inside the Home of the Future”, technology is shown as a helpful tool for humans. However, in “There Will Come Soft Rains”, technology is portrayed as dependent on human involvement in order to function properly whereas “Inside the Home of the Future” objectively supports advancements in the use of technology with a more optimistic view. For example, “The house was an altar with ten thousand servants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly” (Bradbury 328). The advanced technology enables these robots to perform countless jobs and give tremendous aide, yet they lack the rudimentary understanding that their efforts are going to waste. Through the use of a metaphor, the importance of the humans’ presence is emphasized, showing that without people for these robots to attend to, this brilliant technology is of no use. However, Greene states that, “Researchers and commercial labs around the country are building experimental homes to test technology that could make domestic life easier and extend the independence of older homeowners” (Greene 337). The speaker believes that this transition into smarter homes will be beneficial to humans. Through the usage of diction, the positive, approving tone Greene has towards this technology is shown. Technology and the future implications it imposes are controversial as portrayed by Bradbury and Greene, but they still concur on one point. Through the use of both a metaphor and diction, the authors of “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “Inside the Home of the Future” express the capability of technology to help people in their day-to-day life, but Bradbury emphasizes the dependence of human involvement without which, technology cannot truly serve its purpose and Greene places more importance on the extra care that technology can provide for the elderly