First, read "August 2026: there will come soft rains" by Ray Bradbury. While reading, take notes on sticky/post-it notes like we practiced in class (I WILL BE CHECKING.).
Then, in one paragraph, explain what you think the story is about. What has happened to the community described in the story?
In a second paragraph, compare "August 2026: there will come soft rains" to Fahrenheit 451. How are they similar? Dissimilar? (HINT: Think in terms of BIG IDEAS, not just what they were about.)
“August 2026” by Ray Bradbury is deals with the empty city after a war. In the city of Allendale, California is ruined with only one house remaining. Every system of the house is automatically; the voice-clock will remind you what you need to do, breakfast and dinner will be prepared, electric machine and robot will clean the house and the security system will be “quivered at each sound”. In fact, the house is left empty, no one responds to the voice-clock, no one takes care after the dog returned and the only thing that can tell us there were people lived in the house is a photograph with “five spots” a man, a woman and 2 children and a ball”.
ReplyDelete“August 2026” and “Fahrenheit 451” have a several concept in common such as; they are both happened in future , house with automatically system and many things are done for them . On the other hand, there are several dissimilarities as well like the time of “August 2026” is set after a war, no humans in the story and the machines choose for you whereas in “Fahrenheit 451” the protagonist is against the way of living in his society.
Good work, Aini!
ReplyDeleteRemember that adverbs are words that usually end in "ly" and describe verbs. When you wrote "every system of the house is automatically," you used an adverb (automatically), but it is not describing any action or verb! To fix this, either change the adverb to an adjective OR add a verb.
Fix to:
"Every system of the house is automatic" (automatic is an adjective)
OR
"Every system of the house is run automatically" ("automatically" describes the action of the verb "run")
Paragraph 1.
ReplyDeleteFrom what i had read the story seems to be like a haunted house maybe,and that people used to live in that house and now one ghost's spirit still lived in that house and it was the house keeper..the house was the only house standing in that area,and all the other houses had be damaged"the house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes".
Paragraph 2.
August 2026 is similar to Fahrenheit 451 because they both talk about the future,like house equipments talking and and how lonely it was in the area where the house is left standing alone with no other houses around it.Also the talking equipment were the people of the book just like how in fernheit 451 guy runs to Faber's home (i think) and thats where you read a book memorize it then when you know it you'ld burn it..the people there were called the books.It is dissimilar to fernheit 451 because there were no people in the story,and it was all after the war,and the machines in August 2026 did everything.
"August 2026: there will come soft rains" written by Ray Brandburry is deals with the empty city after a war. The story is concentrate on the last house remains in the city of Addendale, California, where there is an automatic system. In fact there is a voice-clock that tells what to do at every time. No one is in the house, it is empty. The only thing that the author describe us are the robots that clean the house at every time and a photograph with five people: a man, a woman, two children and a ball.
ReplyDelete"August 2026" and "Fahreneit 451" are both written by Ray Brandburry. The first one is a short story, the second one is long story. They have in common that both are happened in the future. Also they have in common the fire and the house with an automatic system.
"August 2026" and "Fahreneit 451" are dissimilar in some things. "August 2026" is about the future after a war, "Fahreneit 451" is based in a future with anti-intellectual system. Also in "Fahreneit 451" thre is a protagonist, instead of "August 2026" where there are no people but machines or robots that choose for you.
Yola, I find it very interesting that you described the house as "haunted." I had that same feeling as I was reading.
ReplyDeleteAini, Yola, and Valentina, as you read more Ray Bradbury, you will come to see that many of the topics he chooses have similar themes. You have all hit on his tendency to write about the future and how corrupt or horrible it might be. Very scary stuff!
Valentina, we have been covering present tense in class. Always reread your work to double-check that you have written everything correctly (especially that which we cover!).
Your first two sentences are:
""August 2026: there will come soft rains" written by Ray Brandburry is deals with the empty city after a war. The story is concentrate on the last house remains in the city of Addendale, California, where there is an automatic system."
Look at "is deals" and "is concentrate." These simply should be "deals" and "concentrates." Simple present is sufficient!
In this story "August 2026" by Ray Bradbury, When the war ended, in California everything is ruined except one haunted house. People used to live in that house and now there is a ghost and The ghost was the house keeper.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read all of the chapters in Fahrenheit 451 but the similarties between them is they are both happenning in future.The dissimilarties is August 2026 is all happend after the war. (I don't know dissimilarties with Fahrenheit 451)
“August 2026：there will come soft rains” by Ray Bradbury is talking about the after war, In Allendale, California, the fully automated house of the McClellan family continues, but no one live in there. In the every day the voice-clock sang will ring and tell u to do what u need to do,‘ house was black, save for five places. Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down The rest was a thin charcoaled layer” in this paragraph talking about there only have five are black and have five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the children, and the ball.
ReplyDeleteAugust 2026: there will come soft rains to Fahrenheit 451 they in similar all happen in future and the house all with automatically system can do any for them, in dissimilar the August 2026: there will come soft rains was in after war and was no human living the house.
"August 2026: there will come soft rains" written by Ray Bradbury is a horror or maybe scary story. As I was reading it, I had a flask back that reminded me the movie "I am Legend" as the city was desert and there were very few people in the town. In the short story, the community was controlled by a voice clock which reminded the society what to do, as they were controlled by this machine. The city was desert after the war, and the town was Allendale, California. One of the things or actually the only one described by the author in the story were the robots that were cleaning the house. I enjoyed the story since I like how Bradbury writes it and uses themes that make the story scary and interesting.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think that "August 2026:there will come soft rains" and "Fahrenheit 451" are more dissimilar than similar. We can analyze that both story's are set in the future where there is a new society that is developing, these are the only things that they have in common instead they are dissimilar because they have a completely different plot as in one story they want to burn books to erase the intellectual system and in the other one is based on a new society leaded by a machine. In "August 2026: there will come soft rains" we cannot find main characters, instead in the novel we can find the protagonist that is Guy Montague. I think that the two story's are more dissimilar that similar.
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