There Will Come Soft Rains
Title: There Will Come Soft Rains
Author: Ray Bradbury
Text type: Short story
‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ made me feel absolutely devastated. Immersing me slowly in its melancholy world of rubbles, dust and ashes burning away in a nuclear war. Is by far the shortest, sharpest and most depressing short story that I have ever read. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a snapshot that perfectly captures all of the social paranoias in society during the post war period of the 1950s. Rendering the beautiful and power mind of Ray Bradbury in a 4 page short story. Bradbury was at his absolute best when portraying the overwhelming sense of desolation and bleakness throughout the story. Like Ray Bradbury’s other short story ‘The Veldt’, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a story that is able to teach yet another stingingly unforgettable lesson about technology that shines …show more content…
Bradbury doesn’t show, and doesn't need to show advanced spaceships or terrifying computers, but a house - family, children, innocence, the future, all wiped out in an instant as a result of new technology. Especially how it juxtapositions the idea of a typical happy American Family in the 1950s with nuclear war. With the usage of technology dominating and serving as the role of the mother taking care of everything in the house, it strongly provokes the strong conservative family values and gender roles of the 50s. When televisions are starting to dominate American homes, the idea of a completely automated home in ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is not too distant for any American reader in the 1950s. Under the shadows of WWII and fears of atomic war, I would have seen how it would have made an enormous emotional impact on a reader in the 1950s when the story was first published. It is a perception of the most disastrous future through the rise of new
Author: Ray Bradbury
Text type: Short story
‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ made me feel absolutely devastated. Immersing me slowly in its melancholy world of rubbles, dust and ashes burning away in a nuclear war. Is by far the shortest, sharpest and most depressing short story that I have ever read. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a snapshot that perfectly captures all of the social paranoias in society during the post war period of the 1950s. Rendering the beautiful and power mind of Ray Bradbury in a 4 page short story. Bradbury was at his absolute best when portraying the overwhelming sense of desolation and bleakness throughout the story. Like Ray Bradbury’s other short story ‘The Veldt’, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a story that is able to teach yet another stingingly unforgettable lesson about technology that shines …show more content…
Bradbury doesn’t show, and doesn't need to show advanced spaceships or terrifying computers, but a house - family, children, innocence, the future, all wiped out in an instant as a result of new technology. Especially how it juxtapositions the idea of a typical happy American Family in the 1950s with nuclear war. With the usage of technology dominating and serving as the role of the mother taking care of everything in the house, it strongly provokes the strong conservative family values and gender roles of the 50s. When televisions are starting to dominate American homes, the idea of a completely automated home in ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is not too distant for any American reader in the 1950s. Under the shadows of WWII and fears of atomic war, I would have seen how it would have made an enormous emotional impact on a reader in the 1950s when the story was first published. It is a perception of the most disastrous future through the rise of new