1) The setting of the story is in August 2026in the ruins of Allendale, California. The story begins as an ordinary day just in the future. The story is wrapped around a house who is left standing after a nuclear bomb went off and destroyed everything except of this one house and the only thing destroyed on this house is the side wall which silhouettes with the family that passed away that lived there.
2) The house is the only building left after a nuclear disaster. It is the protagonist.
3) It is the fire
4)The theme of this text it that the technology will overpower people by killing them and how nature will always overpower technology because technology doesn't compare to what nature can do and that a nature is more dominant than any other thing living on earth. …show more content…
8) example of allusion, although not as important as the title, is evident in the story. While explaining how the mice clean the house, the speaker describes them feeding the debris into an incinerator which sits "like evil Baal."
9) The house does not know that there is no one else living in the house and yet it is still doing its normal routine.Its also having an external conflict because as the house is burning , the house can't decide either let itself die or keep trying to take down the flames.
10) It is ironic that the same technology which created a house that can cook and clean is also the technology which destroyed all the people on the
2) The house is the only building left after a nuclear disaster. It is the protagonist.
3) It is the fire
4)The theme of this text it that the technology will overpower people by killing them and how nature will always overpower technology because technology doesn't compare to what nature can do and that a nature is more dominant than any other thing living on earth. …show more content…
8) example of allusion, although not as important as the title, is evident in the story. While explaining how the mice clean the house, the speaker describes them feeding the debris into an incinerator which sits "like evil Baal."
9) The house does not know that there is no one else living in the house and yet it is still doing its normal routine.Its also having an external conflict because as the house is burning , the house can't decide either let itself die or keep trying to take down the flames.
10) It is ironic that the same technology which created a house that can cook and clean is also the technology which destroyed all the people on the