There will come soft rains reading comprehension questions

1-What unusual qualities and appliances does the house have? List 3 functions the house perform. 

a) It talks «Two o’clock, sang a voice»

b) «The front door recognized the dog voice and opened»

c) It advice «Help,help! Fire! Run! Run!»

2-What does the description of the house tell you about the family and their relationship to nature?

The house protects its residents from the forces of nature: its walls close out when there is harsh weather, its kitchen machines spear humans from hunting and foraging in the wilderness,and the cleaning mice ward off the chaos of the outdoors, cleaning up mud, dust, and hair that accumulate in a natural environment.

3-What do you learn about this society as a whole based on the homes many automated features?

The society in the story has very similar characteristics that we have today, but there are a lot that are very different. The house putting up the table, or preáring everything to play cards, etc; is too new or technological for us.

The world would be incredible and amazing, but the more technologically it became, the nature more angry will get, and that doesn’t benefit our future.

4-Why is the dog very thin and covered in sores? What happens to the dogs remains?

When man take nature, it is destroyed. At the end the dog dies, and the house clean the dog as it was trash.

5-What can you find infer the family usually does at 2:35? What did the children usually do at 4:30?

At 2:35 the house prepared the sandwiches and while the music plays, the cards are on the table. But everything is unthought.

At 4:30 the baby room got prepared. All the animals appear with lights illuminating the whole with colors.

6-Provide two quotes below that captur vivid imagery throughout the story.

a)»Animal took shape: yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes». This quote makes us imagine the jungle, the nature, most of the things that they couldn’t see in life because they destroyed it.

b)»There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground». This quote explains that after the rain everything that the men took away, will come again.

7-Based on the storys details about the city, what do you think happened? Why was the west face of the house black? How did the silhouettes get there?

I think that the house died because it couldn’t survive alone all around nature, so the control panel exploited leaving the west face of the house black.

8-Find 2 examples of personification in the story. Why does the author personify certain characteristics of the house?

a) «At ten o’clock the house began to die», this personification tell us that the house was falling down; but it can not die.

b) «It fed», the house can not eat, but this quote tell us that the house get into the upper halls.

9-What is the significance of the poem, and therefore the title of the short story? What is this poem saying that directly ties into the theme of the story?

This poem says that although human die the circle of nature will continue and nature would never care about the existence of human «and not one will know of the war, not one will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree if mankind perished utterly»

10-What happens to the house at the end of the story? What is the lesson that Bradbury is trying to teach?

At the end of the story the house dies. Bradbury tries to warn us of humans. Human cost the disappearance of s lot of animals, is cost the natural disasters, it cost air pollution, global warming and lots of others thing. Human is guilty for his own bad ending, and nor nature or technology will care about us.