Similarities Between A Sound Of Thunder And There Will Come Soft Rains

Humans are extremely interested in benefiting the world by advancing technology, but to a certain extent these advancements are the same cause of society crumbling; Up till what point can we go without ruining our futures? In both short stories “A Sound of Thunder,” and “There will come soft rains,” by Ray Bradbury, the futuristic advancements caused deterioration for society because as humanity advances, more destruction occurs. In the short story “A Sound of Thunder,” the major character changes things of the past by stepping on an insect inside a time machine. The future is affected by the president being changed. The nuclear explosion killed the family and the malfunction caused the house to burn in the fire it created. Ray Bradbury uses exemplary plot

As these stories continued, we saw that there were many things that led to how society changed. Eckels implored “to the Machine,” that they changed society by stepping on a butterfly even though he wanted to go back in change it, he couldn’t “take it back, can’t we make it alive again? Can’t we start over? Can’t we?­” (“A Sound of Thunder” 11). As Eckels screamed, he knew he couldn’t change something as important as the result of the presidential election. This proves that the time machine was the cause of this. Since the time machine was a technological advancement that caused the destruction of society. Similarly within, “There will come soft rains,” Ray Bradbury shows how the house was the creation of its demise. As the house continued to work without its owners. The owners were killed by some sort of a nuclear attack and it left the, “five spots of paint - the man, the woman, the children,” (“There will come soft rains” 2). This emphasizes the