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Revised Thesis Statement: In the short story, “In August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, a specialized robotic house illustrates human mannerism by rendering personification and symbolism to depict the image of coming of age to readers. Works Cited: “Symbols for Writers: The Clock.” Cheryl Reif Writes, 7 Mar. 2014, www.cherylreif.com/2014/03/07/symbols_for_writers-clock/. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020.

Bradburry’s story begins with a clock singing and waking up the house. Clocks symbolise a various amount of things. From the article, “Symbols for Writers: The Clock”, by Cheryl Reif, “The clock can symbolize a feeling of time pressure. If this meaning resonates, it may indicate a need to give yourself the gift of time. It is also a reminder that time is a limited resource that must be used wisely.” The clock in this case is foreshadowing the house’s limited time it has before it is burned down.

● “The Symbolism of Fire (Examples from Literature and Religion).” The Firefighter Garage, 23 July 2019, firefightergarage.com/symbolism-of-fire/. “In Fahrenheit 451, fire is used as a literal destructive force. The main character, Montag, burns books for a living. He is literally burning knowledge to keep people in the intellectual dark ages.” In the short story, “In August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, the indepent house ends up burning down at the end. Instead of it representing, “literally burning knowledge to keep people in the intellectual dark ages”, it is literally burning the house to show robots can not run on their own. The world can not live off of technology. ● “Weather Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms.” Www.Cliffsnotes.Com, www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/a-farewell-to-arms/critical-essays/weather-symbolism-in -a-farewell-to-arms. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020.

The first symbol that stuck out to me at the beginning of the story was the weather. From the article, “Critical Essays Weather Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms”, the authors of Cliffnotes explain to the readers different weather symbols from the novel, A Farewell to Arms, and their

meanings. “‘Starting in the very first chapter of A Farewell to Arms, rain clearly symbolizes death: "In the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain," Henry tells us”’. In the short story, “In August 2026:There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, the story begins in the morning with it raining. The symbolism of rain in this case could be foreshadowing death since later on the house catches on fire. It could also represent the loneliness the house has since the family has been gone or “dead”....