Analysis Of August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury

Technology has become a great part of our lives and it impacts us every day, both positively and negatively. As it can be noted in the speech, “Chief Seattle” and the story, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains,” by author Ray Bradbury. Both of these pieces show how people are slowly destroying the earth with modern technology and by doing so people are forgetting who they are. In the story, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains,” is about how humans have created technology so advanced that it was able to outlive its owners. As stated in the story, “The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes.” The house continued its functions, even when there were no people around to live in it. The house was so high tech it had a routine,

As it can be noted on line 35, “Animals took shape: yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers.” Had humans already driven a few animals to extinction, had they forgotten what the color of these animals looked like? The house protected itself from animals as if it were paranoid, except for the dog that was recognized as the family’s pet. In the story when the dog dies in the house, the house wastes no time on disposing of it. The mice that had to clean up after the dog were not even mice of nature, they were man made.Mr. Bradbury is trying to say that we are losing our natural surroundings and are letting technology too much in our lives.The house continued its normal duties without any regard of the loss of the dog which was part of nature and the family. Aside from the house’s function, it appears as if humans where destroyed by their own creation, “At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow.” This could have been a result of a nuclear war, based on the poem that the automated house chose. The poem chosen for Mrs. McClellan, was about how nature will continue to flourish after humans have been taken out of the

Chief Seattle, he is against destruction of nature due to civilization from what he stated “white men”. White people wanted to buy the land of the Native Americans; Mr. Chief Seattle was willing to do it with all the sorrow in his hearth but, under one condition. That condition was, if nature was left untouched. Mr. Chief Seattle starts to share memories of his land by describing as follows, “the freshness of air or the sparkle of the water…humming insect…the cry of a whippoorwill or arguments of the frog.” He is trying to say that he and his people are going to miss the land they have cared for and its