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`There Will Come Soft Rains` short story

In his short story There Will Come Soft Rains ' Ray Bradbury is able to create a believable story without the use of human characters through creating a character in the house itself . It would seem at first glance that the house is the setting of the story however , as it goes about its daily routine for the people who no longer exist , except as silhouettes of ash on the west side of the exterior , it begins to emerge as the main character and the setting . The larger setting is , of course the obliterated

wasteland that lay in rubble outside the house . From the setting and the image of the phantom family that the house is programmed to service , the context of the story emerges . This home , the epitome of the modernization and mechanization of society had been built to replace the necessity for human labor in keeping a home . It prepares meals , runs baths , cleans , even reads poetry to the lady of the house in the evening . It had become , before the end , a replacement for human life When the rest of the world was destroyed , the family vaporized as the worked in their yard one day , the house remains . Without a master it becomes more and more human . As its day begins , the routines of its former existence are played out in a calculated fashion but this facade falls away as the day goes on and the usefulness of its many gadgets lose their purpose . I don 't think...

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