There Will Come Soft Rains Essay

Ray Bradbury uses his short stories as a public service announcement. He visions different futures and tries to stop them from happening by sharing the consequences with the world. He warns his audience of the dangers of losing touch, taking the easy choice, and technology leaving humanity behind.
In most stories, Bradbury shows his love for connectivity with people. In one story, the children despise their parents so much that, according to their father in the story they “locked it from the outside!” (Bradbury, The Veldt). In this context, they are referring to a room full of technology that they value over familial bonds. In one story, the reader is not shown how much the characters care for their technology since there is a lack of people. “Outside, the garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. After a long wait the door swung down again.” (Bradbury, There Will Come Soft Rains), shows how little technology care for people

He displays this through a creating an entire story around a man walking the streets of his neighborhood alone. It sparks his creativity, shown when “...he could imagine himself upon the centre of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert” (Bradbury, The Pedestrian). If people are unlike the character in this story, they are described as undaunted by “...a dozen assorted murders? A quiz? A revue? A comedian falling off the stage?” (, The Pedestrian.). Unfazed by murder or suicide, Bradbury ends a story with “...he heard Travis Shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon. There was a sound of thunder” Travis creates an extreme consequence another individual’s actions. Extreme consequences are a side effect to over-use of advanced technology as shown by one quote, “”You didn't have to make him do that," said Lesperance. "Didn't