August 2026 Essay

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12/5/12 Short Story Essay Story: #2 August 2026 Essay Advancements in technology have increased over the years. Technology can be a great help to people, however, technology can easily be taken advantage of if not carful. In the short story, “August 2026: There will Come Soft Rains”, Ray Bradbury creates a theme that because of people’s arrogance, they take advantage of technology which leads to the destruction of humans. Bradbury uses the literary devices, personification, irony, and allusion to help convey his theme. Bradbury uses personification of the house to illustrate his theme that people’s arrogance is a reason technology is taken advantage of, which leads to destruction of humans. Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to objects that are not human. Giving the house human traits uses personification. Every action a human normally does every day like, cooking, cleaning, reading, and talking, this house is capable of doing. “Nine- fifteen sang the clock, time to clean. Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted. The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal. They thudded against chairs, whirling their mustached runners, kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at hidden dust. Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped into their burrows. Their pink electric eyes faded. The house was clean”(932). The house being able to clean up the mess made by humans shows how arrogant humans can be; individuals feel they are superior to the technology and nature around them and their time is more valuable. Bradbury also uses personification again to convey his theme when the house is on fire. “A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window. Cleaning solvent, bottled, shattered over the stove. The room was ablaze in an instant! ‘Fire!’ screamed a voice. The house light flashed,

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