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    Essay: There Will Come Soft Rains Question: Analyse how a character is developed for a particular purpose in a written text you have studied. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a dystopian science fiction short story written by Ray Bradbury. The story is about a house in the future that is left standing after a nuclear bomb. The house continues with its normal routine even in the absence of humans. In the short story a character that is developed for a particular purpose is the house. The houses’

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    its purpose. I will be illustrating this through the analysis of the Henry Lawson stories including “The Drover’s Wife” and “The Loaded Dog” and through other related texts “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury and “Charles” by Shirley Jackson. These stories present a variety of techniques in order

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    There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury is a story that takes place in the future but takes its name from a 19th century writer. It is a story that takes a science-fiction plot and embroils it with real life moral and philosophical concerns. Bradbury’s protagonist is a house standing alone in a world destroyed by nuclear war in the 1950’s. When the story was written‚ the fear of devastating effects of nuclear war was painfully clear in peoples’ minds. With the use of narrative elements such as setting

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    The short story‚ There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury‚ was about a world without Humans. Nuclear war wiped people from the face of the earth and what remained‚ in a city‚ was just a house. A self sufficient and working house which was programmed to do certain things without the help of people. Even with the family gone‚ it remained doing the things it was programmed to do. With this short story‚ Bradbury tried to show that a world without reason and understanding is a Dystopian world The

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    to be “the end of the world.” While this someday towards the future might be true‚ robots do help us with some activities throughout the day. On the other hand‚ these robots do have many downsides to them. Ray Bradbury captures these downsides in the story August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains. Written in 1950‚ a robotic house completes daily chores without the help of humans. With the absence of the humans‚ the house can not fight its own battles. To put it differently‚ robots do not have

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    Fink 1 Elyse Fink Professor Parsons-Zammit English 122 23 April 2014 Ray Bradbury: There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury’s short story There Will Come Soft Rains is set in a post nuclear extinction of mankind.  The only thing that remained in the city was a self-sufficient house full of robots and other technology created to cater to the human occupants that no longer exist.  The house carried on‚ day in and day out‚ as if the humans were still dwelling there.  The house‚ with all of its

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    The short story “There Will Come Soft Rains‚” by Ray Bradbury‚ is classified as science fiction. Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology in the future and this short story clearly demonstrates this. “There Will Come Soft Rains” is science fiction because several elements of a short story that includes setting‚ theme‚ and plot reveals to readers that the short story is science fiction. The setting is one element that identifies that the short

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    Additionally‚ in this genre‚ an average society is influenced by advanced technology. In the thrilling‚ short story‚ There Will Come Soft Rains written by Ray Bradbury‚ the author uses personification‚ setting‚ and theme‚ with the help of advanced technology‚ to develop this story into the aforementioned genre‚ Science fiction. In There Will Come Soft RainsRay Bradbury continuously uses personification to place the story into the genre‚ Science fiction. In the commencement of the story‚ it states

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    Soft Rains Will Come In Soft RainsRay Bradbury creates a story about life after people. Times in 2026 are described as a time where technology continues to operate after humanity has passed away. The author uses imagery and personification to develop his idea that technology had become excessive to the point it no longer requires human presence to operate. "In the living room the voice clock sang‚ tick-tock‚ seven o’ clock" (284). Ray Bradbury uses personification in this quote to suggest

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    is a new day the next day so just restart and who knows what will happen Both stories say that no one will know of any of the wars that were fought on the earth because no one will care. Evidence Thesis: both the poem “thereeeee will come soft rains” are created for separate purposes but are similar to each other as well. In both the story and the poem thereeeee are lots of motifs that can be similar and can be different. Essay outline COMPARATIVE ESSAY OUTLINE TEMPLATE INTRODUCTION

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