The house alone

Authors’ Note: This story is from the book called “There will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury about a point of view of an empty house. The only house standing after a nuclear blast.

It was August 4, 2026 in Allendale, California. There was a family of four and they all have passed away only there shadows remain. In this short story, written by Ray Bradbury, only the house remains cooking their meals, and cleaning. In the end, there was a fire. When reading this story, it made me think about how real this can be. How our future could be like this, with our houses doing everything for us.

In the morning the house clock announces that its time to wake up. Doing the usual everyday stuff like it is programmed to do. It is amazing how this house is so smart, that it can be programmed to do our everyday chores and make us food. It just shows how far technology can go, and that it truly keeps growing and growing by the year!

This short story really is an eye opener to all of us. On how much technology can take over our lives. And I think that if we are not careful we are not going to be able to see the world as we do now. We won’t want to go play outside or we won’t want to hang out with friends because we will have everything we need inside our houses. This makes me think of the movie “Wall-E” how in the future everything is gone other than some robots that have been forgotten.

Wishing that in the morning that the whole house is clean. All done without the family mad. This story it shows how are future could be like in 14 or 15 years.  However, the author had a great imagination of how he could imagine the house to be, and all the description.  It doesn’t matter how long the story was, it still had detail.  The detail of the time, and changing of the scenes. 

Whitewasher

Author’s note: This short story is “The Glorious Whitewasher” and I thought it was interesting and inspiring.

                                                     

The whitewasher, what did he ever do wrong? As I read on in this story, things changed and backfired. This story really was interesting because it was inspiring. How may you ask, well because it had taught me something that i never noticed. its just like breaking a promise, if you break it they won't trust you anymore. In the short story, “The Glorious Whitewasher,” the Mark Twain is teaching the reader that if you do something bad that you think is a good idea, it will eventually come back and bite you in the butt.

           

Some readers just might like this story, because it showed how tom was missing out on something impenitent. Missing out on something important. Tom went away to go play by the well in the middle of the town as people are working for him, but there giving tom all the goodies.why, because he was manipulating them to do the work.

But as time went on he saw something, something that he didn’t understand, and that thing he was missing out on. If I was in his place I would want to take back of what I did. But you can’t take back what has been done.

This author was very into this story because it was so descriptive you could see the story, the language was right on cue. I was into this story, and I could understand it like it was happening in the real world like it was here today. Just as i said before when tom told his friends to do his whitewashing job it did backfire. everyone was haveing fun and he didnt understand why. but then everyone just