Question: Analyze how one or more ideas in the text served as a warning to readers. Note “Ideas” may refer to character, theme, or setting.
Purpose: My aim is to make the audience understand how the overuse of technology served as a warning and how dangerous technology is to human kind.
Audience: My intended audience is to anyone who is affected by technology but mainly the younger audience as they’re born and raised in generation Z (rise of the technology)
Tone: I am aiming for an informative, formal and persuasive tone because it’s vital for the audience to understand the overuse of technology.
The 1950’s science fiction story “There will come soft rains” by Ray Bradbury is based on a nuclear bomb that distinguished everything and everyone except for one odd house that still stands perfectly fine. All the machines in the house still continue to do everyday chores, completely oblivious to what has happened. Bradbury uses a range of language devices such as Repetition, listing, and personification to warn his readers of the theme ‘overuse of technology.’
One of the concepts that Bradbury served as a warning to the readers is the overuse of technology can take away free will from our lives. Bradbury shows this by using the technique ‘listing’. Listing gives the readers a variety of
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For example “Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience.” He gives human characteristics to mechanized mice by saying the mice are angry which makes you connect with the mice and puts yourself in their shoes, but also it represents technology doing all the work for us which leads to how we allowed technology to run our lives. Despite the fact that getting a machine to do the cleaning for you is quite great but if you start allowing it to do everything in your life then there’s no purpose for you to live, as we’d not be necessary