There Will Come Soft Rains, And The Pedestrian

Bradbury through His Work
There are about 3,234,223,300 people on the internet, by the time this is read there will probably be more. On the internet, people use the internet for helpful reasons, either help with homework or to help prepare for an interview, but it can also be used for wrong. Technology can be beautiful and dangerous, this is what Bradbury showed through three of his short stories. "A Sound of Thunder," "There Will Come Soft Rains," and "The Pedestrian," will be compared to see their equivalence and differences and. All of these three stories, eventually, will show Bradbury's writing style. The stories will uncover his opinions on technology, with his mood and tone. In order to find the theme of all three stories, one must
There are no humans left in this city, in the city which gave out "radioactive glow" the word radioactive tends to leave the readers wondering why? Throughout the day, the formal diction is being noted, whether its describing the "gentle" sprinklers, and the "perfectly browned" toast(88). The syntax through the story can be seen as casual, the sentences range depending on the tone. Bradbury's choice of words helps the reader imagine, and see the house, to see the west side of the with the "thin charcoaled layer"(88). While the house reads the poem, all is peaceful and quite, then the sentences are lengthened to show anticipation, worry. The mood of the house is mysterious, and regret. The regret of building dangerous technology, the mystery of what happened. The tone and mood, which are found within the diction, syntax, figurative language, and imagery, all lead to find out the
The theme for all the stories is, "Technology is wonderful, yet dangerous", but it's all shown differently. In for "A Sounds of Thunder" is that the less is can have a big impact on things, that is seen when Eckels kills the butterfly and when he goes back to his present, the present is altered. The present is alter because the time machine is created and they mess up the future, "It [Time Machine] couldn't change things. Killing one butterfly couldn't be that important"(81)! The theme in "There Will Come Soft Rains" is technology is a wonderful yet dangerous thing. The city was destroyed, leaving the house alone, "...west face of the house was black, save for [a]... man... woman... boy... girl..."(88). The house shows us the beauty and flaw of the technology, the silhouettes of the family shows us the dangerous side of technology. At last the theme of "The Pedestrian" is technology is wonderful and addictive, "The street was silent and long and empty... only his shadow... like the shadow of a hawk... " this shows that the people are so addicted to the TV that the streets were silent, and it's hard to imagine that(98). The stories have had different themes because they aren't about the same thing. They all do talk about impacts, whether it was the butterfly, the nuclear explosion or the television. Bradbury made that clear, and he showed his theme with his style of