There Will Come Soft Rains by Gavin Donnelly https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37 Key quotes & literary devices en-us 2018-09-11 04:44:51 UTC 2025-11-19 15:22:30 UTC hello@padlet.com The house stood alone, in a city of rubble and ashes. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259016


]]> 2019-09-03 01:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259016 '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.' jnguyen310 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259127 This quote shows how even though technology have taken over most of humanity, such innocent images like children playing ball are still present. It also helps with making the description of the devastating effects of the nuclear war, making them more sinister. ]]> 2019-09-03 01:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259127 the attic smashing into kitchen and parlor. Parlor into cellar, into sub-cellar. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259210 2019-09-03 01:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259210 ruined city gave off a radioactive glow https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259231 2019-09-03 01:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259231 "th https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259248 2019-09-03 01:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259248 "The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly." https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259253 2019-09-03 01:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259253 the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259330 2019-09-03 01:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259330 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259333 And spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone]]> 2019-09-03 01:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259333 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259336 At ten o'clock the house began to die]]> 2019-09-03 01:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259336 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259348 This was the one house left standing.]]> 2019-09-03 01:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259348 "the house began to die" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259355 2019-09-03 01:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259355 "Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259373 2019-09-03 01:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259373 the imagine of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259415 2019-09-03 01:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259415 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259427 The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned into fire]]> 2019-09-03 01:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259427 T https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259465 2019-09-03 01:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259465 The fire in 10 billion angry sparks moved with flaming ease https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259469 2019-09-03 01:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259469 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259497 its bared skeleton cringing from heat

]]> 2019-09-03 01:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259497 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259498 "the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles"]]> 2019-09-03 01:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259498 the dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259504 2019-09-03 01:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259504 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259554 the house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat]]> 2019-09-03 01:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259554 wlim https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259612 And the voices wailed Fire, fire. run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone.]]> 2019-09-03 01:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259612 "the religion continued senselessly, uselessly' https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259683 2019-09-03 01:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259683 hysterically yelping to each door, at last realising as the house realised that only silence was here https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259716 2019-09-03 01:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259716 The fire burst the house and let it slam flat down, puffing out skirts of spark and smoke. wlim https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259833 2019-09-03 01:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259833 "The entire west face of the house was black https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259858 2019-09-03 01:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259858 "The entire west face of the house was black" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259860 2019-09-03 01:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259860 "The entire west face of the house was black" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259868

]]> 2019-09-03 01:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259868 "The entire west face of the house was black" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259873 2019-09-03 01:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259873 the fire burst the house and let it slam flat down https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259914 2019-09-03 01:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259914 "no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heals" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259917 2019-09-03 01:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259917 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259931 "The fire crackled up the stairs.It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls."]]> 2019-09-03 01:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259931 it ran wildly in circles, biting at its tail, spun in a frenzy, and died. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259932 2019-09-03 01:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259932 The house was silent https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259949 2019-09-03 01:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379259949 Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, even as the sun rose to shine up on the heaped rubble and steam https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260000 2019-09-03 01:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260000 "the attic brain which directed the pumps was shattered into bronze shrapnels on the beams https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260004 "]]> 2019-09-03 01:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260004 "The house tried to save itself" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260065 2019-09-03 01:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260065 But no doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heels https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260106 2019-09-03 01:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260106 "not one would mind, either bird nor tree. if mankind perished utterly;" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260140 2019-09-03 01:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260140 Ten more voices died https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260190 2019-09-03 01:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260190 tiny robot mice darted https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260199 2019-09-03 01:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260199 'Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is . . .' https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260214 Shows how in such a short space of time, the last sign of humanity had destroyed itself. ]]> 2019-09-03 01:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260214 The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, it's bare skeleton cringing from the heat, it's wire, it's nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and red capillaries shiver in the scalded air. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260247 2019-09-03 01:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260247 and ten million animals, running before the fire vanished off toward a distant streaming river https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260269 2019-09-03 01:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260269 This was the one house left standing https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260345 2019-09-03 01:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260345 This was the one house left standing. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260349 2019-09-03 01:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260349 a daz https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260366 2019-09-03 01:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260366 "a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest" https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260367 2019-09-03 01:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260367 At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260380 2019-09-03 01:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260380 eaten by fire https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260381 2019-09-03 01:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260381 The fire burned on the stone hearth and the cigar fell away into a mound of quiet ash on its tray. https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260397 2019-09-03 01:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260397 the fire burst the house and let it slam flat down, puffing out skirts of spark and smoke https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260440 2019-09-03 01:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260440 NO wlim https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260469 2019-09-03 01:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260469 NO wlim https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260474 2019-09-03 01:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260474 No doors slammed, no carpets took the soft tread of rubber heals. wlim https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260478 2019-09-03 01:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260478 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260596 "At last voice said,over and over again and again"]]> 2019-09-03 01:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260596 smoke and silence, a great quantity of smoke https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260607 2019-09-03 01:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260607 'Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, even as the sun rose to shine upon the heaped rubble and steam' jnguyen310 https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260631 The ending of the story was effect because of how it incorporates the end of human kind with the phrase 'heaped rubble and steam' with the end of technology with the phrase 'a last voice said' which symbolises the end of technology. ]]> 2019-09-03 01:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260631 among the ruins, one https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260697 2019-09-03 01:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260697 among the ruins, one wall stood alone, https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260699 2019-09-03 01:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gavin_donnelly/rpz453ga4v37/wish/379260699