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There Will Come Soft Rains

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There Will Come Soft Rains	comment	"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a post apocalyptic Science Fiction short story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury. It tells about the continued goings-on of an automated house. The house goes about its programmed tasks, such as making breakfast and cleaning, sustaining its own processes for days at a time. As the story goes on it becomes clear that a nuclear war destroyed all of the humans. The house runs continuously until it succumbs to decay; no one will ever live in it again.The name comes from the 1920 Sara Teasdale poem about nature reclaiming the former battlefields of Europe in the years following World War I (but also about how little nature would notice if humans suddenly disappeared) a poem which is recited by the house itself midway through the story. In particular, the poem was chosen to exemplify the fact that life (and in this case, some technology) goes on, even if humans were to suddenly vanish.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The poem is recited by the house (Mrs. McClellan used to listen to poems in the evening).
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_1d3c92da	comment	Failsafe Failure: In the book, the water runs out when battling the fire. The house switched to a green chemical fire suppressant, but the fire worked its way outside the house and entered the vents to the attic, and destroyed the machine responsible for controlling the fire.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The dead family to whom the house belonged had two children, a boy and a girl.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: The family dog, which survived The End, comes back to the house. It tries one final time to locate his family, and when it fails, scratches the kitchen door with pancakes cooking on the other side. The dog curls up and promptly dies of starvation and (presumably) radiation poisoning. The cleaning robots carry it off and incinerate the body without a word.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: To Sara Teasdale's poem There Will Come Soft Rains, which is about how humans would never be missed if they were to all disappear.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The nuclear holocaust has already happened, but the family's smart house is still active and running as if its inhabitants were still alive.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Though the Soviet film only gives hints, it would appear as though pre-apocalyptic America wasn't doing very well either. The fact that hazmat suits adorn the bedrooms, the family's work clothes also resemble radiation suits, and the window to the grandmother's room is blocked by a "Video window" showing a pristine landscape would all indicate that the environment outside might have already been wrecked when the bomb fell. On top of that, the robotic house itself. Aside from micromanaging the daily routine of the inhabitants to a ridiculous degree, everything is made of cold stainless steel, the beds and chairs look cramped and uncomfortable, and the robotic servant looks and sounds very creepy. Seeing the robot attacks the bird without any regard for the safety of the humans around or their belongings also shows this house would be an accident waiting to happen even before the war.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_3bce9346	comment	Ragnarök Proofing: Although it survived the blast, the house runs out of water trying to put out a fire because it has been using up all its reserves cooking and washing dishes since the attack.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Not even ashes, only silhouettes of their forms against the side of the house as they were vaporized by a nuclear blast.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_46d619c4	comment	Unnecessarily Creepy Robot: The Soviet adaptation's robot is a giant snakelike apparatus fixed over the dining room table that has four ohmu-like feelers to manipulate objects. It also has three retractable spikes that it uses to ram intruders.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Arguably the Downer Ending already happened, but it is possible to develop a little empathy for the still-running house, making the end of the story a second Downer Ending.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_5969d512	comment	Computer Voice: Throughout the house, many mechanized voices speak to give the family directions.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_74cc759a	type	Atomic Hate
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_74cc759a	comment	Atomic Hate: The entire purpose of the story is to show what would happen After the End because of a nuclear war. There's nobody left, machines are still going entirely on their own, and humanity is basically gone.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_782b8a66	type	Absurdly Dedicated Worker
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_782b8a66	comment	Absurdly Dedicated Worker: The entire plot of the piece is that a fully-automated house keeps performing its duties of cleaning the house, preparing meals, singing lullabies for the kids, etc., even though the home has been empty for a long time and the family and everyone else has perished in a nuclear war.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: The children's room is described as a nursery, yet they're old enough to have gone to school.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_82464731	type	Humanity's Wake
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_82464731	comment	Humanity's Wake: Nuclear war killed all of humanity, but not all living beings.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_8947140b	type	Significant Reference Date
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_8947140b	comment	Significant Reference Date: In the version included in the 1997 edition of the The Martian Chronicles, the story occurs between August 4-5, 2026, very near to the date of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Though the Soviet film only gives hints, it would appear as though pre-apocalyptic America wasn't doing very well either. The fact that hazmat suits adorn the bedrooms, the family's work clothes also resemble radiation suits, and the window to the grandmother's room is blocked by a "Video window" showing a pristine landscape would all indicate that the environment outside might have already been wrecked when the bomb fell.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_92159f81	type	In the Future, We Still Have Roombas
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_92159f81	comment	In the Future, We Still Have Roombas: In the form of robot mice and rats.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_9381f239	comment	Clockwork Creature: The robot mice, rats, and crickets used to clean the house.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In the animated adaptation, the robot's eyes (or, sensors) are destroyed during an attempt to scare away a bird... The Reveal shows the "sockets" bleeding fluid. Gah.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: There is a 1984 Soviet animated adaptation directed by Nazim Tulyakhodzayev that can be found here.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: Well, perhaps not that differently. In the book, the family was outside the house when the bomb hit and were completely vaporized, leaving white silhouettes on the house's side. In the animated adaptation, enough of them is left to be recognizable as human-shaped piles of ash.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
There Will Come Soft Rains / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: It's already come and gone by the time of the story. The world still exists and lives on, just without people.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_def7c6ec	comment	Artificial Outdoors Display: The nursery had beautiful metallic/glass animals, woven to resemble a crisp cereal meadow, where the walls picture the outdoors to distances of grass and warm endless sky. The animation instead reserves a single screen for the grandmother.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: After the house finally burns down, all that is left is one voice: "Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is—"
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: In the Soviet animated adaptation, the little girl's doll can be seen in her bed among the pile of ashes that she was vaporized into.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: Nuclear war has come and gone, and humanity has ceased to exist. All that's left is the house.
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There Will Come Soft Rains / int_ffa0ee7c	comment	Smart House: The house is entirely automated and performs all routine tasks on its own, freeing its inhabitants from maintenance and day-to-day tasks, although whether or not it has some measure of sentience is still debated.
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