There Will Come Soft Rains Theme

Technology has became the new bomb we must defeat. According to Albert Einstein, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Nuclear bombs are able to destroy thousands of lives and can completely destroy cities and towns. In “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, the author uses setting, symbolism, and personification to convey the theme that technology will destroy mankind. The story explains how the city has only one house left standing after a nuclear bomb has hit the city. The house and voice-clock throughout the story play the roles of the people who used to live in the house. The house starts to disintegrate and vanish forever because technology has grown to strong and has taken

The author writes, “Today is August 4, 2026,”...“in the city of Allendale, California” (1). This gives us the idea of the type of weather and climate the story has. California is known for being really warm and has lots of rain in the winter and spring. Bradbury shows us how something has gone wrong with the city: “ The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles” (1). This shows how the main character the house is all alone and that technology is completely destroying the entire city. The setting portrays what the environment is in the story and how the world is beginning to get destroyed. The setting begins to guide us towards the theme of the

The author says, “The weather box on the front door sang quietly: “Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today” (1)... This shows how the weather box is a major voice and gives direction to the house and the outside. The author also states, “The sun came out from behind the rain” (1). This shows how the author is personifying the weather box, to tell the house and all the other animated features of the house, the type of weather it is outside. I think that the weather box is almost like a weather reporter for the house, since ultimately there is no humans living. Personification helps really convey the theme to all of the readers and