Selfishness In There Will Come Soft Rains

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury and The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick express selfishness through humanity’s impact on their surroundings; moreover, humanity give peace to nature when their creations caused their extinction and humans going against their own kind to survive in desperate times are experiences told through either nature or a human’s point of view. Selfishness is conveyed in There Will Come Soft Rains through humans ignoring the fact that nature could´ve been abolished while they had their nuclear war: ¨The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles¨ (Bradbury 1). The explosion caused harm to only humans and whatever they had built except for a house. Humans wanted to destroy each other so much that they didn´t consider its impact on others even if meant destroying all living things. Luckily, nature survived and found peace through eliminating the last witnesses that humankind ever lived there: “The house tried to save itself: Doors sprang tightly shut, but the windows were broken by the heat and the wind blew and sucked upon the fire¨ (Bradbury 3). Nature would be at peace once it was assured that humans would no longer destroy her ground, animals, air, and anything that belonged to

Stella was a fourteen year old girl who had been starving for days during a death march that started to consider eating a fifteen month old baby. In most societies, cannibalism is looked down because, along with being a murder, it is taking the right to live away from someone and only satisfies the predator’s needs. Unlike selfishness, sharing would mean both people would find a way to nourish themselves together to have a balanced