n the short story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain" by Ray Bradbury, he chooses to contrast technology and nature in the nursery to show that in the future so many animals will be extinct that humans will only have technology to resemble what nature used to be like. Bradbury describes some animals in the nursery as "aluminum roaches an iron crickets" to show that every creature in the nursery was mechanical. The author shows how the nursery resembles an artificial jungle by describing how the animals took shape cavorting in crystal substances, he does this because he wants to show that the nursery is just there to create a fantasy. As well as Bradbury describes the scenery in the nursery as "walls dissolved into distances of parched
