The science fiction short story “There will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury conveys an essential message that targets the problems of technology. The theme is that technology has disconnected people in all ways as it destroys humans physically and emotionally, pulling them away more and more from humanity. The moral is exposed when the body of a dog who died from starvation was put inside an incinerator as the mice were cleaning up the life that seemed worthless to them. The author illustrates,“Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind” (2). This line proves that the author was clearly trying to get the audience to make the connections that the technological mice
