Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!” (Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” ). The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. His style appears to be this way, because of the eloquent, powerful language that he uses to describe the marvelous way in which this house has continued to exist, yet he does not talk down to the reader, which gives the feeling of familiarity with the reader: “In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. In this chapter, it seems that Bradbury is using a style of writing that is as if he is familiar with the reader, but is superior to them. In this chapter, the author uses a combination of style, imagery, tropes, and pathos that pulls readers into the story, and leaves them with an understanding of the destructive power of man. In the short chapter “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” from Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction novel The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury is telling to the audience a tale of a house that is left standing after a nuclear war, and of the eventual destruction of the house from fire. Assignment 3: Expanded Stylistic Analysis of “There Will Come Soft Rains”
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