The story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is about a house that, although the owners are gone, still does it morning routine. The story is set in the future, 2026 to be exact. The story depicts the future as a place where everything is done for the house owners and that everything is based on time. Everyday at seven o'clock the voice-clock sings the time. Everyday at seven-nine the clock says its breakfast time. The house is on this schedule like clockwork and it sticks by and stays on this schedule even when it is burning and dying. Quite early on the story reves that this is the last house that, "...stood alone in a city or rubble and ashes." The story portrays the message that even when we are gone and we have left the world
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The story is about a house and it suggests that there were one people that lived in this house. The McClellan's as there was a Mrs. McClellan that was stated by a voice in the study. We can only assume that they were the one to live in this house and to furnish it with the voice clock and to furnish the nursery which had floors that were," woven to resemble a crisp, cereal meadow." They were the one to furnish the house with the Picassos and Matisses that were in the upper halls. This house this is what's left the McClellan's.
Secondly, what we leave behind. This story have the constant mention of emptiness and silence. "But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels," the story stated. Nothing happened because no one was there. There was so much silence in this house that even the dog was quick to realize that there was no noise in the house. " The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, atlas realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here."
Lastly, even the creations we leave behind disappear. In the end of the story the house catches on fire. We can only assume that the house becomes a pile of rubble and ash, joining the other houses and building that too were lost the same way. The last structure of humans falling and disappearing like everything else in that
The story is about a house and it suggests that there were one people that lived in this house. The McClellan's as there was a Mrs. McClellan that was stated by a voice in the study. We can only assume that they were the one to live in this house and to furnish it with the voice clock and to furnish the nursery which had floors that were," woven to resemble a crisp, cereal meadow." They were the one to furnish the house with the Picassos and Matisses that were in the upper halls. This house this is what's left the McClellan's.
Secondly, what we leave behind. This story have the constant mention of emptiness and silence. "But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels," the story stated. Nothing happened because no one was there. There was so much silence in this house that even the dog was quick to realize that there was no noise in the house. " The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, atlas realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here."
Lastly, even the creations we leave behind disappear. In the end of the story the house catches on fire. We can only assume that the house becomes a pile of rubble and ash, joining the other houses and building that too were lost the same way. The last structure of humans falling and disappearing like everything else in that