There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury — Review

"There Will Be Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic story about the actions of an automated house after its inhabitants were destroyed, probably with a nuclear weapon.

Dishes are prepared but not eaten. Bridge games are installed, but no one is playing them. Martinis are made, but not drunk. Poems are read, but there is no one to listen to. An automatic voice recounting times and dates, which has no sense without a human presence.

Instead of describing the moment of the explosion, Bradbury shows readers a charred black wall, except when the paint remains intact in the form of a woman picking flowers, a man moving on a lawn, and two children throwing a ball. These four people were a family who lived in the house.

"There Will Be Soft Rains" is a part of the series“ The Martian Chronicles ” and one of the most famous stories in the world of fiction: touching, fatal, shocking.



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