August 2026 There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury Analysis

Everywhere a person may go in life in the 21st Century, there is always some type of new technology. Whether that technology is new cell phones, computers, TVs, and even cars; it is everywhere. In present day, humans are always trying to find ways to improve life and make it easier to accomplish day-to-day tasks. Technology can be a blessing and a curse. Technology helps people stay connected to others they may not be able to physically connect with. A downfall of technology is that it can cause a disconnect of what is real and what is fiction. With the advancement of technology came the creation of weapons that can create catastrophic level destruction, such as the nuclear weapon. After reading “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, the ideology the reader succumbs to is the quick …show more content…
In the article, “"You Don 't Prepare Breakfast...You Launch It Like a Missile": The Cold War Kitchen and Technology 's Displacement of Home” by Rebecca Devers, she points out that the house shows no emotion, like love, by saying “The McClellan family home, in Ray Bradbury 's 1950 story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains," seems equipped with every imaginable technological innovation, but it fails to provide more human qualities like love.” (Devers N. Pag.) The house lets the dog in but does not recognize that it is starving. In any case, if a person sees a dog starving they would give it food because they felt empathy for dog. In “The Veldt”, Lydia feels as if she is not useful when she says,” Maybe I don’t have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much.” (Bradbury 157) In a situation where a person does as many tasks as the house does, that person would feel overwhelmed but the house continues working and the people living in the house feel useless and question their