There Will Come Soft Rains Literary Devices

When Humans Die, Earth Will Seldom Notice

It is a well known fact that Man was nature’s creation, while technology was that Man’s own. Ray Bradbury speaks on what he thinks of it in his short story: “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Bradbury lets his readers identify with the human qualities presented in what Man has made to encourage empathy toward his ‘main character’. However, he also presents the impossibility of replicating certain aspects of human life with the cold and calculated ways already established at a machine’s core. Regardless, nature doesn’t appear to care much how ‘human’ technology actually is, only that it is not meant to remain standing if mankind is not there to protect it. If humanity wished to be remembered by Earth, it

With an absence of humanity left in the world, it is with personification that Bradbury gives the ability to empathize back to the reader throughout the story, but especially in the opening quote: “In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid nobody would. (Bradbury 28)” Here, Bradbury gives the clock the ability to experience fear and, to an extent, worry. The quote is also very well placed in the beginning of the short story to make sure his readers make note of it both consciously and unconsciously. He adds to the idea of personification by letting the readers in on the House’s fear of death in the following quote: “The house tried to save itself. (Bradbury 31)” by shutting its windows tightly to starve the fire and keep it from burning the house down. In this scene, it forgets all other things and concentrates simply on stifling out the fire to save itself. The emotional connection created with both these lines is meant to let the readers believe that life has not changed so much that humans no longer have a place on Earth anymore, even if it is emphasized that Mankind has deserted the planet long ago. Humans’ desires to be remembered are prominent in the human-like traits granted to technology and how they are played with in the