https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94 By Serenity Renée Gallow en-us 2021-05-14 11:57:23 UTC 2025-06-04 00:07:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1501691223387-dd0500403074?ixid=Mnw3ODI2fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8N3x8VGhlcmUlMjBXaWxsJTIwQ29tZSUyMFNvZnQlMjBSYWlufGVufDB8fHx8MTYyMDk5MzU0NA&ixlib=rb-1.2.1 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530808714 The firs sentence in the story shows how punctual the house is, "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. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!" The last sentence shows how broken down the houses machinery is from the fire, "Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is..." Comparing these two sentences it shows how much the character has changed from the beginning where it was punctual and working on tine to how messed up the character is in the end after the fire.]]> 2021-05-17 11:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530808714 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530821754 "Ten o'clock. The sun came out from behind the rain. The house stood alone in a city of rubble and
ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow
which could be seen for miles."]]> 2021-05-17 11:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530821754 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530830369 2021-05-17 12:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530830369 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530833226 The house started the day off following its everyday routine.]]> 2021-05-17 12:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530833226 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530833957 A tree branch broke through the house window, and knocked over cleaning solvent, which then set the stone on fire.]]> 2021-05-17 12:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530833957 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530838134 When the dog came to the house and it revealed that the house was the only one standing and that everyone was dead.]]> 2021-05-17 12:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530838134 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530847078 The house is burning down.]]> 2021-05-17 12:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530847078 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530848375 The house is burnt down and repeating "Today is August 5, 2026...."]]> 2021-05-17 12:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530848375 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530856287 The theme expresses how bad nuclear warfare could be, how strong technology could be (in the future) and how technology could live on after everyone dies.]]> 2021-05-17 12:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530856287 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530870279 "Ten o'clock. The sun came out from behind the rain. The house stood alone in a city of rubble and
ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow
which could be seen for miles."

"Ten-fifteen. The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness. The water pelted window panes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned, evenly free of its white paint. The entire west face of the 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."]]> 2021-05-17 12:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530870279 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530877728 The sentences show that even though everyone is dead (from nuclear warfare) that the technology still lives on and that it runs the whole houses routine.]]> 2021-05-17 12:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530877728 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530884827 In the story it reads a poem about how happy nature would be without humans, but the reality is when the humans were rid of, nature was already destroyed by the war.]]> 2021-05-17 12:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530884827 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530887058 "There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone."]]> 2021-05-17 12:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530887058 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530898793 The internal conflict is the the house is still doing the same routine daily and does not realize that everyone had died.]]> 2021-05-17 12:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530898793 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530900167 The external conflict is when the house is burning down and it can't decide decide what to do.]]> 2021-05-17 12:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1530900167 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535153719 "Now there were 20 snakes whipping over the floor, killing the fire..." Personification]]> 2021-05-18 11:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535153719 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535154724 "At four o'clock the tables folded like great butterflies back through the paneled walls" Simile]]> 2021-05-18 11:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535154724 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535155639 "Today is August 5th, 2026, Today is August 5th, 2026, today is..." Repetition]]> 2021-05-18 11:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535155639 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535157236 "The gentle sprinkler rain filled the garden with fallen light." Metaphor]]> 2021-05-18 11:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535157236 serenitygallow https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535159676 "In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh..." Personification]]> 2021-05-18 11:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/serenitygallow/ads3xv9btcue3u94/wish/1535159676