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    In the story “There Will Come Soft Rains”‚ by Sara Teasdale and Ray Bradbury and how the theme of the story effected both of the authors. When Sara Teasdale‚ wrote the story and the story date 2025 and right now the date’s technology 2017 and that in a few years the stuff we make won’t be as advanced in the future and when Ray Bradbury wrote his version of the story and it was taken in the year 2050 and that is very long time away. It effects our certain time period and the people in the future

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    Stories can be written with the purpose of making the reader think about the world and the characters that the author has created‚ There Will Come Soft Rains is no different. In the short story‚ There Will Come Soft Rains‚ Ray Bradbury helps the reader understand the story by using tone and diction as well as imagery. Within the first paragraph the reader can get a hint of what the story is going to be like‚ “The clock ticked on‚ repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine‚

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    Firstly‚ I will present the soft science fiction book There Will Come Soft Rains of Ray Bradbury. This short story is about a technological house that stands after a nuclear blast and continues doing its regular activities like cleaning and making the food. Bradbury describes the routine with an ironic perspective and compares it to the in-text citation of the poem There Will Come Soft Rains of Sara Teasdale (Bradbury 5). The ironic link between both is that

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    Inside There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury is an icon to readers. Still to this day he is an author‚ essayist‚ playwright‚ screenwriter‚ lecturer‚ poet and visionary. Bradbury is an amazing character that has achieved amazing things throughout his life. Bradbury was born on August 22‚ 1920 in Waukegan‚ Illinois. Growing up he was very loved by his family. He had a great childhood. Bradbury attended Los Angeles High school where he contributed in many clubs. He was part of the drama club inspired

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    August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains. "In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast‚ eight eggs sunny side up‚ sixteen slices of bacon‚ two coffees‚ and two cool glasses of milk."(Bradbury‚ 906) Is this the house we have imagined? "There Will Come Soft Rains" says that‚ yes‚ we can build magnificent machines: beautiful houses to cater to our every need‚ a thousand servants at our beck and call‚ yet what benefit

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    Does Technology save us‚ or destroy us? “There will Come Soft Rains” is a story about an empty house still standing from something that’s going on. Everyone is gone and there’s one house left‚ with robots. In the teleplay‚ “There will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury‚ Sadness and Irony is the theme and tells us that technology can be bad and will kill us all. The theme is first introduced by the house starts cleaning itself‚ going through routine. The scene shows that there’s one house left and the

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    Bradbury conveys this perfectly in his short story There Will Come Soft Rains. The way Bradbury does this is‚ Bradbury uses imagery to have the reader understand the point in an observant way‚ and Bradbury also uses personification to make the technology lively‚ and lastly Bradbury uses allusion to connect and compare the situations‚ Sara Teasdale brought up in her poem There Will Come Soft Rains. In There Will Come Soft Rains‚ Bradbury uses imagery‚ imagery helps create a mental image and

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    Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury are all dystopian stories. In The Hunger Games each year two children are picked from one of the twelve districts to fight to the death in The Hunger Games‚ to show that they can not rebel against the capital. They are forced to do this to show that they can not rebel against their leader. Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys stranded on a desert island‚ throughout their experience they learn that they are naive and barbaric. There Will Come Soft Rains is

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    Modern Home Over 2026 Home In “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury there is a high tech house. This house is pictured in 2026. There are many things in our modern homes that were mentioned in the story. There are also many differences‚ these differences are the technological advances. Choosing between these houses is like be challenging. Even though Ray had an interesting idea of future homes‚ ones in today’s society are more preferable. There are many reasons that today’s homes would

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    In the short story “There will come soft rains” by Ray Bradbury‚ a poem is stated by the same name but different author. The poem “There will come soft rains by Sara Teasdale‚ comes about halfway through the story and really sets the tone for after it. I will be stating what it means in the story as well as to us in the moment. But first‚ you of course need to know what the poem is before you can compare it to anything. The author wrote this poem and during the Great War‚ which makes sense seeing

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