Bradbury's science fiction stories have been termed "warning fictions." In Ray Bradbury's story "There Will Come Soft Rain" there is one house left after a nuclear explosion. Ray Bradbury says in the story that "The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. At night the city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles." In the story, there are now no humans left and everything was destroyed by the nuclear bomb.
Bradbury is giving a warning to the future generation that we need to be careful how far we take our power. We have the power to destroy cities and and whole civilizations and we need to be careful how we use this technology and how far we make advances in this technology. If we keep making more and more powerful bombs then we will be able to destory larger parts of the world and wipe out more people. This is why we need to be careful about how far we go. This is what Ray Bradbury is trying to warn in the story "There Will Come Soft Rain."
Love that Hopper! Congrats on using a quotation from the text - look for more. And try to eliminate "I" when doing literary analysis. We know it is you, the wonderful Katie, since this is your blog!
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Ms. R