There Will Come Soft Rains Summary

"There Will Come Soft Rains" talks about a house that has survived a nuclear blast in Allendale, California in 2026. This house has automated systems, not unlike a modern-day smart house. The conflict in this story is a unusual twist on humans in conflict with nature. Since there are no humans - humanity is extinct as a result of technology - the story instead focuses on the products or creations of human labor in conflict with nature. For example the house, along with all its cleaning and cooking accoutrements, is shown in conflict with nature. 'It quivered at each sound, the house did. If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade snapped up.' It is almost as if the house senses that nature is a threat to its very existence. The foreshadowing in this story is "Tick-Tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up seven …show more content…
The machines inside the house are clearly of great benefit as they zoom around cleaning the house. The house contains an oven that cooks breakfast and washes dishes, and robot vacuum cleaners swoop up every particle of dust. Yet a nuclear event has apparently resulted in the destruction of all human life. For every advance in technology, some harm seems to result. The irony in this story is a dramatic irony , this happens in the fact that the house doesn’t know that no one lives there and is still set for its daily routine. And because us, as the audience, knows this along with the narrator, but the house doesn’t. The most ironic about the house in this story and situation, is that it has survived a nuclear blast, but yet it leads itself to its own demise when it does one thing wrong. After reading this story i was thinking of what all happened in that one day.The narrator of this story is warning his readers about their overuse of technology. However, Bradbury's message runs much deeper. The people in this society have been destroyed by a nuclear