For me, by describing the house in human terms, I was able to show my empathy for the house. This is because he assumes the reader who identifies with the house may feel loneliness and imagine the pain of having one’s skin torn off. Personally, I felt that Bradbury was trying to evoke empathy from the reader. In addition to this, I was able to understand his purpose of using smiles. Bradbury poetic imagery personifies the house. I found this simile very confronting to read and helped me to identify the house as a human being. An example that created repulsion in me was when he describes the ‘nerves’ of the house were ‘revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins quiver in the scalded air’. His use of diverse literacy techniques influenced me in a positive way as it helped me to create imagery in my head. However, Bradbury’s use of similes and personifications were the highlight of my reading experience. With no human interaction and characters in the story, I imagined the story to be nothing but dull and depressing. There Will Come Soft Rains gives a glimpse of what’s to come, and for us living in 2019, 2026 is the near future. The story reflects how far the world has come to revolutionize itself, especially since the 1950s. Bradbury demonstrates a world of technology and proposes that humankind is destroyed by its own arrogance.
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