4-There+Will+Come+Soft+Rains

__Extender: (Sam Marsh) __
__1: Fallout 3 (Video Game)-__ This game is set in post-apocalyptic 2276, roughly 200 years after a nuclear war. This story reminds me of this game because of the major things they have in common. For one, this story talks about a completely automated robot-house. Fallout doesn't have quite that technology, robots are commonly used. Reading about the abandoned world and mechanical homes did make my mind immediately dart to this. ====__2. The Jetsons (TV Show) -__ This show takes place in the future, (what time exactly, I'm not sure) but the theme of an automated home is obviously synonymous with the story. ==== __3. "Welcome To The Black Parade" By My Chemical Romance (Song)- __(I recommend you watch the video first here: ) This song is not actually about the apocalypse or mechanical houses. The setting it's in does kinda look like what I imagine the city to be. Pretty burned, kinda run down, no one really there. __4. A Series Of Unfortunate Events (Movie)-__ In this movie, a major theme is peace. In the sense that there is a normal, happy routine in a place riddled with dread and horror. I see the house as the sanctuary. Nothing is different besides he missing family. The house doesn't know any different. It's just as it was when there was a family, nearly untouched but the plaque around it.

1.What was it that cleaned the house? 2. Why did the house continue it's daily routine? 3. Why do you think the dog died after he realized the house was empty? = IM AGE FI ND ER = (Patricia-Marie Harley)
 * __Three Questions: __**

eggs sunny side up with bacon - The eggs and bacon support the __idea__ that Ray Bradbury wants us to imagine a complex house that can create simple pleasures. The eggs and bacon also symbolize an average life before everything around this one dieing house was alive. When the house realizes that the breakfast is still sitting on a table it throws it away. This moment in the story represents the theme that there once was a time were the eggs and bacon would be eaten but now everything is fading away and the average life on earth doesn't exist anymore.

The dead dog - This picture also represents the theme that everything simple and somewhat complex is dead. The dog, which seems to be one of the few living beings left, dies once it __steps__ into the house. Now the life is over for both the dog and earth.

wires - The wires show the house's life line. The tone is somewhat apathetic, because the whole idea of a life with out life can not involve true feelings. House's don't feel and the narrator is only describing the houses routine and ruin.

<span style="background-color: #19d411; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">a house on fire - This represents the main character, the house, going done into flames. This part of the story was sad and it reminded me of the movie wall-e. Even though both characters aren't really "alive" i grow empathetic towards every touching event.

<span style="background-color: #aa9d9d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">the apocalypse - The whole plot reminds how it would be if only one technologically advanced house survived the apocalypse. This story really made me think what if this really did happen, and how many years would the home continue to run on it's own.

=Qeustions:= (Patricia-Marie Harley)
 * 1) 1- What were the three events that made August 4, 2026 so significant that the voice-clock repeated three times?
 * 2) 2-Put in order the different steps/defense mechanisms the house used to keep the fire out.
 * 3) 3-The house was still fixing eggs and pancakes and dinners, keeping this in consideration, how long do you think earth has been in this state? If life and therefore machinery has seized where could fresh food still be attainable?

**Character Tracker- Isabella**

 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Unaware ** || The house keeps doing its job, calling to wake its long gone inhabitants, cooking, and cleaning, all for a people that it doesn’t realize have not been there. This characteristic defines the whole story as the lone house goes through a routine without the humans that should follow along. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Consistent ** || Though the house stands alone and silent on a radioactive wasteland it does its duties, timing everything, for day, and even at the end it keeps calling out the date. This consistency plays into the unawareness as it goes about its __work__. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Useful ** || Everything is done for those who would have lived in the walls, it provides for them and tell them what they need to do or can do. With no humans there it is an underlying trait, because it helps no one, but still noteworthy. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Intelligent ** || Though the house is not able to note the absence of people within it, it does have an artificial intelligence. This is shown when it chooses the poem for its resident and recalls that it was her favorite. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Persistent ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Even when reduced to a single standing wall it continues to chant out for the people it believes it harbor. In the whole story it is implied the routine is regularly done to the empty house, which also demonstrates this trait. ||

Questions- Isabella

 * **Level 1** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Who was the author of the poem recited by the house? ||
 * **Level 2** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Compare the house’s defense to the fire’s attacks. ||
 * **Level 3** || Speculate whether, if there were humans in the house, there would be responsive interaction between the house and inhabitant. ||