![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also noticeable that the entire house is operated by robots and machines. As to who may have launched the nuclear attack may not be important considering that any nuclear attack in the twenty first century would involve mutually assured destruction. Something that is a little clearer to the reader when we discover that the story was written only five years (1950) after the nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. It is as though Bradbury is warning society. It is possible that Bradbury is suggesting that the reality of a nuclear apocalypse is that nobody will survive. This may be important as the reader (if they believe a nuclear apocalypse occurred) immediately gets a sense of the damage that has been caused and how instant death came to the family who own the house. Something that is further reiterated by the fact that the house is the only house standing and there is a radioactive glow outside. It is left to the reader’s imagination as to what happened all the humans in the house but four silhouettes on the wall by the side of the house suggest that they have been victims of a nuclear apocalypse. Taken from his The Martian Chronicles collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Bradbury may be exploring the theme of suffering. In There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury we have the theme of suffering, dependency, empathy and nature. ![]()
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