“The City” by Ray Bradbury is a story of revenge. The City itself is an unpopulated city on a planet far away from Earth. It seeks revenge upon Earthians who killed its people long ago. The City’s sole purpose is to wait for people of Earth to come back and exact its revenge. It waits twenty thousand years to do so. Finally, a rocket arrives and The City awakens. It determines that the people visiting are indeed from Earth and reanimates a corpse to do its bidding. It could be asked how something as simple as a developed area previously inhabited by several beings could possibly do anything that significantly impacted other living things, as it is supposedly insentient. To show that The City did indeed have intentions, Bradbury had to make