Is technology what our future is coming to? In the short story, There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury, there was a nuclear holocaust that caused mankind to be extinct. There are no humans in this story being that they are all extinct, but the house is powered by technology and the house does not realize that the humans are not present in the house anymore. The house continues to do the cleaning, cooking, and sing the hours of the day. In this short story the family dog is alive but when it comes back to the house, the dog is not only starved but sick as well which results to the dog dying.
Not for a few pages did she reveal that the birds had killed the Triggs and the mailman. Then, Nat realizes there are no signs of life from any of his neighbors' homes because they have all been attacked and eaten by the birds. After that, the reader is left wondering if Nat and his family will remain safe. The author does not tell us, however. The story ends when Nat smokes his last cigarette, and the birds are still attacking.
“The Sniper” is set in battle, and “Cranes” is set in the countryside where there is no battle at all. Even though civil war is going on at the time in both stories, “Cranes” tells a more heartwarming story and doesn’t actually mention anyone being killed. “The Sniper” is a more general story that is much colder than “Cranes”, and has less sympathy. The theme in “The Sniper” is that war is really bad, it gets a lot of people killed for almost no reason, it can turn families against each other, and you might even kill your own brother in the process. The theme in “Cranes” is friendship can overcome any argument, even if it’s during a war and you have to take your old childhood friend to his death.
After the journey is done only one character ends up with everything they wanted. Murphy’s Law fits into this story so well because nothing ever works out for the Bundren family. The corpse has rotted, Cash has a broken leg, Dewey Dell can’t get an abortion, and Darl is off to an insane asylum. The Bundren’s just can’t catch a break. In every situation they find themselves in, something goes wrong.
There are so many books and films that try to portray the end of the world, but no other has done so as Corrmac McCarthy has. The book is about the journey to no where unparticular taken by a father and his young son over numerous months across a landscape of what was at one time the world we live in. But in ways unknown to the reader the world was conformed into a destructed living hell. Whatever cataclysmic event took place ended up destroying most of civilization and life on earth, and what remains of human civilization now consists mainly of cannibals and their quarry. Human life was scarce and those that are left go to any extents to survive.
‘Homeless Bird: Letter to a character’ Dear Sass, I believe that the way you rid yourself of Koly was wrong and unfair. It was never Koly’s fault that Hari had died; it wasn’t her fault that Sassur had died either. What if when you were young, your mother left you alone at a temple, with no money and no home to go to? Thousands of kids younger than her die each day because of people like you. Calling your brother for help probably didn’t get you anywhere.
John Hersey’s Hiroshima is a novel about the day America dropped the atomic bomb and the after effects. It was the greatest single manmade disaster in history. Hiroshima started the day like any other normal city; people were trying to live their lives like there was not a war going on. But the fear of being the next target swept through Hiroshima, other cities were air raided by B-29 also known as Mr. B. Constant air-raid warnings went off every time a United States weather plane flew by.
Gatsby has no point in living anymore because the one thing he wanted in life he would never have. As Gatsby died, all the beautiful things around him died including the nature. The grass was dead, the leaves of trees were falling and the darker months were coming. A tree can only live with sunlight and warm weather in order to grow luscious leaves; each season when the warm weather and sun disappears it dies. Gatsby can only live if he had Daisy.
ENGLISH ASSESSMENT Imagine; a world where everything you’ve ever known, loved and despised was… gone, where any chance of survival was at a minimum, where you haven’t seen or heard from another human since the ‘incident’ : I am the last one, I am the only thing keeping mankind from extinction. Washington D.C. A mega state. Trembling. Choking. Breaking under its own weight.
If we're all going to be dead in the end anyway, what difference does it make what we do with our lives? We may influence the lives of others, but they too are doomed to death. In a few generations most of our accomplishments will be totally forgotten, the memories of our lives reduced to a mere name etched on a tombstone or written on a genealogy chart. In a few centuries even our tombstones will be unreadable due to weathering; our skeletal remains will be all that is left of us. Barring fossilization, these too will be disintegrated into the earth and nothing of us will remain.