In the story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” the role of nature is to take back what once belonged to nature. In the story the author writes “a failing tree bough crashed through the kitchen,” and “the room was ablaze” shows the beginning of the house fire. The author uses short sentences to emphasize how fast the fire started. Nature does this because once humans are gone, nature tries to remake the land that it used to be before there was humans living there. Also, “sent flames outside the house” and “up through the attic” shows that nature was not going to stop until it had fully swallowed the house. The author shows this by describing all the ways the fire had surrounded the house nature does this because after millions of years
