Ray Bradbury is an author who has written many books and short stories with a style of his own that makes the reader think more about the story instead of just reading the words. Two short stories that Bradbury wrote are called “The Sound of Thunder” and “There Will Come Soft Rain.” These two short stories are similar in many ways. They both also share the qualities of using many types of figurative language and taking place in the future. The themes of the two stories are also similar because they revolve around the fact that technology could be used to end or mess up the world. A big difference that they have is that “The Sound of Thunder” is a story about humans destroying the world using technology while “There Will Come Soft Rain” is
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The themes state that technology could ruin our world if people are not careful. Another similarity is that the stories use lots of figurative language that makes the readers have lots of images in their minds. In the simile “There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame,” (“Sound Thunder” 1) an image is created in the reader's mind because the sound is compared to a gigantic bonfire. In “The Sound of Thunder”, there are many things that are compared to other objects and also described with many details. This helps you visualize what is happening and what the object is like. In “There Will Come Soft Rain”, it uses a lot of figurative language just like “The Sound of Thunder.” There is also a lot of personification used in “There Will Come Soft Rain” unlike “The Sound of Thunder” which allows the reader to look at the object like it is alive. For example, "The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air" (“Soft Rains” 5). The personification also helps understand what is happening in the story even better. Even though both short stories have many lots of figurative language, they are not always the
The themes state that technology could ruin our world if people are not careful. Another similarity is that the stories use lots of figurative language that makes the readers have lots of images in their minds. In the simile “There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame,” (“Sound Thunder” 1) an image is created in the reader's mind because the sound is compared to a gigantic bonfire. In “The Sound of Thunder”, there are many things that are compared to other objects and also described with many details. This helps you visualize what is happening and what the object is like. In “There Will Come Soft Rain”, it uses a lot of figurative language just like “The Sound of Thunder.” There is also a lot of personification used in “There Will Come Soft Rain” unlike “The Sound of Thunder” which allows the reader to look at the object like it is alive. For example, "The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air" (“Soft Rains” 5). The personification also helps understand what is happening in the story even better. Even though both short stories have many lots of figurative language, they are not always the