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Ray Bradbury's The Long Rain

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“The Long Rain” is written by Ray Bradbury. The main characters are the Lieutenant, Pickard, Simmons, General Mendt. Their rocket ship crash lands on Venus and it is a very rainy planet. They have to find a sundome. A sundome is where there is new clothes, food, and it is warm. They had found a sundome that had been attacked by the Venusians/aliens. The rain eventually wears at their sanity and they wonder if they will ever find the other sundome. The Lieutenant is the only one that makes it to the working sundom. Pickard and Simmons die of insanity and General Mendt died of an unknown cause. I will be talking about the setting, tone and symbolism This paragraph is about the setting of the story and how it affects the theme. The rain continued.
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