The house in there will come soft rains is a smart house that has a family that lives inside. The family has timers that go off everyday, like a timer for the house to make breakfast. One day a nuclear bomb hit the town and killed everything but the house and some things in inside it. The house had no idea what was going on around it. Timers the family had set went off with no one to use them. The house was lonely and clueless with no one around to help. In the end the house started to fall apart and a fire started and burned everything down besides the west wall.
Henry was also lonely and clueless. He is home alone in expectation of his wife returning from her trip to see her family. Henry lives in a small town with every little people. He married one of the only female in the town. Yet did Henry know that his wife had been dead for nineteen years. Every year at a certain time he gets a letter saying that she will return in a certain amount of days. His friends come over and decorate the house for her and help Henry because they know that she is dead. The day she returns they drink liquor and get him drunk the where he will pass out just before the time she is expected to come home. Then he wakes up and lives another year till the day she is expected home.
The house and Henry were both lonely and oblivious. The house has no idea that a nuclear bomb has hit and the town is dead, and the family that lives in the house is gone. Henry lives by himself now and has no idea that his wife is dead and has been for nineteen years. The difference is that Henry has people around him to help when the time his wife is expected home. The house is all alone with no one to help and everything around is dying, even the house dies in the end. They are both lonely but one is even more lonely then the other.
Monday, October 13, 2008
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Kaylie - the comparison here is good, but we need to work on the set up. You need an introduction paragraph that sets how you are going to compare the "House" with "Henry" and in what way. The introduction paragraph should also contain a hook.
Okay - so see if you can rewrite the beginning. Also go back through the essay and look for wording in your sentences. Examples: "Timers the family had set went off with no one to use them" - this is not quite as correct as "Alarms the family had set went off with no-one to hear them".
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