August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains

1. what are some things the house does to try to save itself? doors sprang tightly shut, but the windows were broken by the heat and the wind blew and sucked upon the fire

2. what was the last voice to die saying? "today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, today is..."

3. what warning is Bradbury trying to deliver in his story? we have machines do everything for us and now we only knew that a family lived there because of what the machines did

4. Paranoia- mental disorder systematized delusions or projection of personal conflicts

5. Silhouette- image of a person, animal, object,or scene represented as a solid shape.

6. regiment: Military a unit of ground forces, consisting of two o more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units

7. sublime: elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc

8. psychopathic: of relating to, or affected with psychopathy

9. incinerator: a furnace or apparatus for burning trash, garbage etc. to ashes

10. capillary: pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore

11. oblivious: forgetful; without remembrance or memory

12. summary: the poem was good and it has to do with the state of the future

13. the opening line: "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- it has to do with the machines still going on even with the humans there

14. what unusual qualities and appliances does the house have? everything is alive

15. what were the five spots of paint of? the five spots of paint- the man, the woman, the children, the ball- remained. the rest was a thin layer

16. what happened to the people? they all died

17. what are some things the house has been protecting itself from? the outside world

18. why is the dog very thin and covered in sores? the radiation

19. what happens to the dog's remains? the mice clean it up

20. what can you infer the family usually does at 2:35? spent time together playing cards

21. what did the children usually do at 4:30? go to the nursery

22. what is the name of the family that lived in the house? McClellan