Compare And Contrast Searching For Summer And There Will Come Soft Rains

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury and Searching for Summer by Joan Aiken are two stories set in a coincidentally similar setting, but they are extremely different in nearly every other way. First of all, these two short stories have very different plots. There Will Come Soft Rains is about the last “survivor” of a disaster, where the “surviving” house is finally defeated and burnt down. Searching for Summer is about a young couple, who are trying to find the last bits of sunshine to have their honeymoon in. Also, the tones of the stories are completely opposite. Searching for Summer has a very hopeful and carefree tone; like where Tom and Lily arrive at the cottage “That a great dusty golden square of sunshine lay on the fireplace