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At the very beginning of the story, the house starts the morning routine, and while announcing events, the author describes the sound as singing with a cheerful voice. The house repeats the song, seeming like it was "afraid that nobody would [wake up]," which gives the house the human characteristic of being able to feel emotions. The house's emotions change the longer it operates without people, "[shutting] up its windows and [drawing] its shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection," implying that it feels lonely and defensive despite being a machine. When the house sets on fire, it "[shudders], oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scaled air." At this point, the house no longer has just a human personality, but also a body and internal organs comparable to that of a human. It reacts in a way that seems like fear and desperation before it falls apart, or dies. The examples of personification demonstrate how the house changes from cheerful and efficient to scared, desperate, and lonely.

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In the story, the house displays emotions similar to a person. The house prepares meals, makes daily announcements, and the house shows compassion for the winning dog outside by recognizing the dog and letting it in. The house also attempts to save itself from the fire and the house displays emotions like fear and making frantic announcements about burning down. The examples of personification throughout the story show changes similar to a character by the changes in the houses emotions and how the house acts compared to the beginning of the story to the end.

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In "There Will Come Soft Rains" the house personified because there are no other human characters to further the plot. Examples of personification in the story can be found when Ray Bradbury writes "Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience." (page 2) and "The house tried to save itself." (page 4) In the story, the house is capable of feeling annoyance and self preservation. These human characteristics allow the house to change, like a character would. Although the house is a round "character" it is not dynamic. The only change the house undergoes is physically, when it is lit on fire.

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How do the examples of personification show how the house changes, like a character would, throughout the story?

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How do the examples of personification show how the house changes, like a character would, throughout the story?

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The house is personified in how it protects itself and how it responds to each situation. For example, when the dog shows up at the door, the house recognises its voice and lets it in. Later, the house askes Mrs. McClellan what poem she would like, and ended up reading her favorite. Lastly, once the fire was first set, the house screamed and warned the rest of the house. No matter how hard it tried, the house could not save itself. The house lost control, the stove was "seen making breakfast at a psychopathic rate". The house went from cool and collected, to manic and hectic. - Sam Lundell

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The house is personified when the kitchen cooks breakfast, when the house speaks, when it cleans, when it starts the car and opens the garage, it sets up cards, etc... These are the everyday tasks humans normally do. The robots are replacing what humans do in their normal routines. Based on the time or the date of the day will show what the house or the human should do throughout their day.

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The time of the passage is in the future and the setting is the last standing house after the nuclear explosion. The house is continuing its normal routine of announcements and the technology is functioning as it would if the family was not dead until the fire happens and destroys the house.

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The house is personified by its intelligence and its emotions. The house shows its fear and survival instincts when its burning down, and it shows compassion for the dog outside in the rain. The house also develops throughout the story because initially its very robotic and just tries to help the lost family, but later it shows emotion and behaves like a human.

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The house changing is an example of personification because the character show how it reacts to different things that happen such as how it tried to protect itself from the fire and how it cleaned up after the meals it put out in the day. Jake and Connor

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Personification of the house - Quentin and Ryan

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Personification of the house - Quentin and Ryan

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The house is personified in many ways. One of these ways is by the territorial nature of the house. This is shown when "the shade snapped up. The bird, startled, flew off! No, not even a bird must touch the house!" (p. 15). Another example of personification is the house's sense of self preservation. For example "The house tried to save itself. Doors sprang tightly shut, but the windows were broken by the heat
and the wind blew and sucked upon the fire" (p. 51). The house trying to save itself is another example of personification. At the beginning of the story the house is functional and automated. Once the fire starts in the house, the house has messages that become more and more frantic and seemingly scared for its own wellbeing.

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At each announcement the house changes and shows what the family would be doing at a certain time. This helps us understand what the family did in their day to day life living in the house. Pramit and Nik

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How does this add to the understanding of events that took place before the story began?

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How does this add to the understanding of events that took place before the story began?

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Each time is announced with an action. 7 o'clock is when the McClellan family used to get up. Next is when breakfast is announced. By fallowing the houses actons after each time is announced we can infer what the family did before this story was written. - Sam Lundell

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The announcements in the story help you understand the events that took place before the story began because the house tells you what the routine used to be. Jake and Connor

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The announcements with the passing of time show the family's daily life, and how the family not being there affects the house and shows its emptiness, and the family not being there also indicates at the events that occurred before the story took place. This shows that something terrible happened and it killed the family and nearly all life in the area. (Xander, Rishabh, Allan)

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Each announcement in the story provides details on what the family's daily life was like when they were alive. The announcements show when the family woke up, when they ate, when they went to work or school, and what the McClellan family did on a daily basis.

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The house continues daily routes and seems as if it misses the family in the house due to the somber tone, and the dark setting. Also the expression of making food and then cleaning it up when no when is in the house shows the house misses the family. Caden, Chase, Ethan, Sean, louts

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The differences in the setting with the announcements show that before the family died, they followed a very strict routine that the house ran for them. Examples include the announcements of getting up, eating breakfast, going to school + work, cleaning, and many more. This shows that the McClellan's were very organized and that the house continues to run in their absence.

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The house in the story does things like protecting itself, talk to people, sing, and makes food like a human. The house singing shows the emotions and feelings that the house might have. These feelings make the house more like a character. Also, when the house fights the fire it becomes desperate and tries to protect itself from being destroyed. This shows the house's emotions changing in the story.

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The announcements help you understand that the story takes place in the future after a nuclear war. It also shows how the world has changed before the story began. Caden, Chase, Sean, Ethan, Loutfi

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The passage of time is shown in the story by the constant reminders of what time it is and what the house does at that time. This allows us to understand that the family that previously lived in this house was on a regular routine that they did every day. The fact that there is no family there implies that something has happened to the family. Since the dog "...once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores..." (p. 17). This tells us that despite the dog being cared for, it has gotten weak and sores, possibly meaning a nuclear attack is what has caused the lack of the family.

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The examples of personification show how the house changes like a character would because they show how it reacts to different things that happen such as how it tried to protect itself from the fire and how it cleaned up after the meals it put out in the day. - Quinn and Melaina

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In "There Will Come Soft Rains," the house announces the time and it gives a reminder for important times during the day like breakfast, nap time, and dinner. This gives us an insight into McClellan's routine when they were still alive. It also shows how structured and consistent their day was.

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The announcements in the story help better understand the events that took place before the story began because they repeat what the McClellan family used to to every day before the nuclear war. - Melaina and Quinn

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Review the story paying attention to the passage of time. Note details about setting provided in the passage that follow each announcement. How does this add to understanding of events that took place before the story began?

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Review the story paying attention to the passage of time. Note details about setting provided in the passage that follow each announcement. How does this add to understanding of events that took place before the story began?

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Setting is more than just the time and place in this story. The setting of the smart house also serves as the main character within the story. Therefore providing an element of personification.  Review the story for details that show examples of the personified house and explain how it gives an example of a human characteristic.  How do the examples of personification show how the house changes, like a character would, throughout the story?

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Setting is more than just the time and place in this story. The setting of the smart house also serves as the main character within the story. Therefore providing an element of personification.  Review the story for details that show examples of the personified house and explain how it gives an example of a human characteristic.  How do the examples of personification show how the house changes, like a character would, throughout the story?