1. There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
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English 9

2. The Early Life Of Ray Bradbury
Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920
Began writing in 1931
Moved to Los Angeles in 1934
Los Angeles High School
Drama club and Poetry Club
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Family often moved btwn illinois and AZ
Greentown: safety/home/fantasy and menace
Selling Los Angeles times
Library and typewriter
1931: butcher paper

3. Young Adult Life of Ray Bradbury
“Hollerbochen’s Dilemma” (1938)
Futuria Fantasia (1939)
“Pendulum” (1941)
Married in 1947
Four daughters
Died on June 5, 2012
Maggie McClure (worked in a book shop)

4. Ray Bradbury’s legacy Over 500 published works Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Disney’s Spaceship Earth at EPCOT
Orbitron at Disneyland
Creative consultant
trend setting ideas

5. Writing Style Dystopian writing Explores the human condition
Consequences of progress
American Fantasy
Science Fiction
Horror
Mystery

6. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950)
Average day in California
Smart House Futuristic Setting
Utopia and Dystopia
The Atomic Age
Question of the family and where they are
Written 5 years aafter the U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs on Japan
Unleashing deadly technology and destroying humanity

7. Literary Terms Irony Personification Setting External Conflict
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Plot Line
Theme
Flashback
Motive
Technology
Creation of machinery
Man’s destruction of nature
Referencing past events
How much faith humans put in machinery