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Wall-E And There Will Come Soft Rains: A Literary Analysis

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In the movie, Wall-E and the short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” both share the same theme. Technology and humans depend on each other to thrive, while nature can grow on its own. Wall-E is doing his job, cleaning up the mess the humans made w on Earth. When Wall-E collects and stacks trash, he finds a plant when working. The small sprout is growing without any sunlight or the help of humans or robots. Nature can flourish without humans because they pollute the world with trash. In “There Will Come Soft Rains”, the robotic house reads a poem by Sara Teasdale. “Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, if mankind perished utterly;/ And Spring herself…. / would scarcely know that we were gone” (Bradbury 171). In the poem, Bradbury is

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