Schedule and organization are marvellous skills to have; when put into portion. It is when one becomes too concerned with maintaining a strict and tidy schedule that it gets out of hand. Ray Bradbury writes about one house that remains standing after an incredibly tragic nuclear explosion leaves the entire population to dust; including the home’s inhabitants in There Will Come Soft Rains. Although there is no one present to utilize what the home is doing, the house continues to stick to its strict cleaning, cooking, and tidying-of-the-house routine. In George Saunders’ Victory Lap one becomes acquainted with an overly schedules and micromanaged mother and her paranoid son, Kyle. It is when Kyle defies what his mother raised him to believe, …show more content…
Both Victory Lap and There Will Come Soft Rains show how blinding an overly scheduled life can be and how it disturbs one's priorities. In There Will Come Soft Rains, one comes to understand the disturbed priorities the home possesses due to its raging concern of keeping the home neat. “A dog whined, shivering, on the front porch. The front door recognized the dog’s voice and opened. The dog padded wearily, thinned to the bone, covered with sores. It tracked mud on the carpet. Behind it whirred the angry robot mice, angry at having to pick up mud and maple leaves, which, carried to the burrows, were dropped down from cellar tubes into an incinerator which sat like an evil Baal in a dark corner. The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping at each door. It pawed the kitchen door wildly. Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the whole house with their odor. The dog