Comparing The Monkey's Paw And There Will Come Soft Rain

The Monkey’s Paw and There Will Come Soft Rain, two very amazing short stories with very different meanings but at the same time hold a lot in common. They show us very different aspects of the world and what could happen and what has happened in our lives. The both covered important things alone but together they are stronger.
The two themes that I picked were to not take what we already have for granted and That technology isn't as or more important than our planet and our environment. In my eyes, these two themes are important because we shouldn't take our planet and all of its natural resources that we couldn't live without for granted by only thinking about the future and what technology has to offer when nature is the only way we would still be able to have a future. …show more content…
The story opens with a dark and stormy night, the whites live in a deserted area, their house is old with creaky noises. The creepy factors of the set make for a suspenseful story. The story shows us, readers, that we can't change something out of our hands completely. We can work towards achieving it but we could never get something with the snap of your fingers.
Soft Rain was a very moving story to me. It made us look into a future where it has completely relied on technology and the world as we know it now is destroyed. Right away the story opens up with destruction and chaos. We gotta calm down with our tech because we don't wanna take it too far. The world needs to be cautious with our discoveries and new ideas because we will end up going too far and being completely dependent on technology. Although the debate is quite relevant currently weather technology controls us or not, nothing would compare to how soft rain portrayed a hypothetical future that is very