ipl-logo

Non-Human Characteristics In There Will Come Soft Rain

645 Words3 Pages

The short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, was about a house filled with technology. Stoves making things, automatic cleaners, and clocks telling you what time it is and when you have to leave. Also, at the end, the house was on fire and readers wonder what is going to happen next... This demonstrates personification with certain pieces of future technologies that are doing house chores that humans do. Personification is referenced to show human characteristics in non-human beings. “ Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a rich odor and the scent of maple syrup”(pg2). This quote illustrated that in our future we could see a lot more automatic objects, which can make people more lazy and obese. Lastly, when everyone was going to bed, the house ‘began to die’(pg3) and I liked how it was added to make it more unreasonable and interesting.

Also, I noticed the …show more content…

I found mood throughout the story through the way that the people seemed very distant from their life and not very into doing things together. I think that the way that the non-human objects are the main characters sort of took away from what should have been happening in the story. An example to support this is, “ But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels. It was raining outside”(pg1). This quote in the story made me think that the family was very different because most houses you hear a door slam and most people say goodbye, not just leave. I noticed that the only voices that were added were in a few parts of them talking (when reading the poem.) This changed the way that I thought about the story because even though the technology conveys that people are distant from normal life, it shouldn’t be what the story is all about. The different parts that made the story distant did show mood because when reading the story, it gave me a sense of how my life nowadays have lots of electronic objects in our

Show More
Related
1980 Words | 8 Pages

Question 1: Night is a text with a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? , how does it affect the reading experience?

Read More
440 Words | 2 Pages

The mood in the story is very suspensful and horrific. The author Irving Washington , uses destinguished setting descriptions to create the perfect mood for his characters. The main setting the swamp, creates an overall mood by forming visual and sensory images. It triggering feelings with those images, and combines those feelings into the mood. For example Tom was stepping out into the woods fromand roots to ditches and afforded precarious footholds among deep sloughs.

Read More
735 Words | 3 Pages

First, “If you move, I strike, and if you do not move, I strike. Oh, foolish people, who killed my Nag!” (para 84). As you can see, this is an example of personification because Nagaina spoke to the humans and she showed emotions towards Nag. This example of personification proves the theme because Nagaina’s love for Nag gave her courage to go to the veranda and try to kill the little boy alone.

Read More
678 Words | 3 Pages

The first example of personification is from The Martian Chronicles,”She heard him crying out to the birds as they rose higher, like ten thousand hot sparkles, so many red-yellow fireworks in the heavens, tugging the canopy like a flower petal, burning through the wind” (Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 6). The personification is the birds are tugging at the canopy. Tugging at an object is a human quality, and birds do not tug at canopies. An example of personification from Fahrenheit 451 is, "The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across a black morning sky" (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 30). Jet planes do not whistle.

Read More
495 Words | 2 Pages

I also agree with the opinion that suffering might never end, like the novel indicates through imagery at the very end. The author manages to combine happy moments with sad ones even though the sad ones takes the larger share. In addition, he accomplished his aim of having an audience that is glued to the book all along sine it is both engaging and informative. The author has a perception that the world is composed of more bad things than the good ones. This novel will be important to me as I explore the themes of post-apocalyptic fears and human struggles.

Read More
543 Words | 3 Pages

Milyana Mentor Ms. Brewster June 5, 2023 The mood is an essential aspect of storytelling that can make the reader feel as if they are a part of the story. It creates a sense of an atmosphere and can help the reader feel the emotions that the characters have. The mood is there to help grab the reader’s attention and make sense of the environment. All fiction books use this method, but two novels that used it especially well are Dracula by Bram Stoker and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. To begin, Dracula’s mood is very gloomy and dark.

Read More
202 Words | 1 Pages

Lorraine Hansberry uses several different styles of writing throughout the book to show many different types of literature. More specifically, in Act II Scene III Hansberry shows a shift in mood. In the beginning of Act II, the moody is very upbeat and happy and everyone is relatively stress free because they know they shouldn't be stuck barely getting by living paycheck to paycheck. Hansberry shows thus mood in a few ways. First, he shows this by saying Ruth and Walter went to the movies.

Read More
231 Words | 1 Pages

He said that a wind came from a cloud chilling Annabel Lee. He then talks about he remembers her and about a tomb by the side of the sea which leads to death. So, it makes you think that she got sick and died. That’s what the connotative words make you think and set the mood of that. How he uses those words could make a difference in the moods it shows.

Read More
739 Words | 3 Pages

It sets up a reader for thier future and what is to come: grief. The story shows how our relationships to others vary from person to person. People are caring and selfish, sympathetic and indifferent, hopeful and completely discouraged. Like any story, the readers gain their own lessons, but still explore the universal themes of loneliness, companionship, love, loss, and death. It shows us that grief can overtake us, as well as looking for an unapproachable

Read More
485 Words | 2 Pages

(page 112). Emotions like this enhance the feeling of the text and changes how things are inferred. Imagine the tone and mood are the center of the universe, the wonders of how things are created, or the juiciest part of a burger. Without the meat, the burger(story) is just lame, and no one wants to eat(read) it. The mood and tone are building blocks to the theme, and the whole novel, or

Read More
313 Words | 2 Pages

In the short story, There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury uses personification and irony of the house to explore the double-edged idea that humans need technology to survive, which ultimately illustrates that nature overrules. Bradbury uses personification when the house is destroyed and it is given human-like emotions. The nuclear bomb drops and the house is obliterated as empathy becomes evident: "The house shuddered, oak bone on bone… One, two, three, four, five voices died. Dawn showed faintly in the east. Among the ruins, one wall stood alone," (Bradbury 4).

Read More
807 Words | 4 Pages

One example of personification is when comes to visit Grant after work: “A little farther over, where another patch of cane was standing, tall and blue-green, you could see the leaves swaying softly from a breeze.” (Gaines 86) The use of personification is effective because it allows the reader to visualise. In this instance, it creates an image of the leaves swaying in the wind.

Read More
1151 Words | 5 Pages

The most apparent themes in this film are loneliness and isolation. Based on the cinematography, it is evident that wide shots of the characters occupy a small space alone or an extremely large space with many people who are completely unaware of their existence. Both of these things work to portray the idea that Murray's character, Bob, and Johansson's character, Charlotte, are lonely, isolated, and missing something. The director also uses the concept of balance to pass the message on the emotional state of the characters.

Read More
574 Words | 3 Pages

At the end of the story, the kids learned that their family had been hurt for a long time and that they were grieving the death of their son who died years ago. The kids discovered that their grandparents cared about their dad and them even though they didn’t show

Read More
998 Words | 4 Pages

The ending was very loose and scattered leaving the audience free to think about the situations and a put conclusion. Different people will give different conclusion to it. The situation that they were in made them frustrated and depression covered them like a black cloud. They used to call random friend to hang out and even talked to the soap about its health. The cause and effect relation of this movie was very connected.

Read More

More about Non-Human Characteristics In There Will Come Soft Rain

Related Topics

Open Document