![]() ![]() ![]() The house also has humanlike form in that it has many “voices”-including a voice that tells the weather, a voice that give reminders of the time, and even a voice that reads poetry aloud. For example, “ robot mice” and “copper scrap rats” clean the house, “twenty snakes” fight the house fire with a “clear cold venom of green froth,” and the nursery is full of artificial animals (such as “iron crickets” and “butterflies of delicate red tissue”) for the amusement of the children. ![]() Many of the house’s automated functions have the form of robotic animals. In doing so, Bradbury creates an eerie confusion between life and technology, showing the extent to which technology has blended with and taken on the characteristics of humans and animals.īradbury imbues the house with distinctly human and animalistic characteristics. As such, the story centers lifelike technology-both anthropomorphized and animalistic-and relegates actual living beings to the fringes of the tale. “There Will Come Soft Rains” narrates a day in the life of a home whose automated artificially-intelligent functions, such as making meals and cleaning, continue to operate after its human residents (the McClellan family) have perished in a nuclear explosion. ![]()
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