"The Pedestrian"
"There Will Come Soft Rains"
"Fire and Ice"
"Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Themes & Symbols
100

This character is the only one who walks outside for pleasure.

The pedestrian, Leonard Mead.

100

The story takes place in this time and place.

In the future of 2026, after an atomic bomb has been dropped.

100

The speaker presents these two elements as possible ends of the world

Fire and Ice.

100

The central image of this poem is a piece of furniture.

The Kitchen Table.

100

Both Bradbury stories critique society’s dependence on this.

Technology.

200

The story is set in this future year.

2053

200

The house continues to work despite the absence of who?

People, family, inhabitants.

200

Fire is associated with this intense emotion

Anger, corruption, destruction
200

This object that symbolizes the shared human experience.

The Kitchen Table.

200

"The Pedestrian's" loneliness and isolation of characters represent this theme.

The addiction and overreliance on technology.

300

The police arrest Leonard Mead for doing this.

Walking in nature.

300

This is the title of the poem read aloud by the house in the story.

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasedale

300

Ice is associated with this intense emotion (or lack of emotion).

Coldness, emotionless and dehumanization

300

A summary of the story

Life begins and ends at the Kitchen Table

300

In “Fire and Ice,” fire and ice serve as what literary devices.

Symbols

400

The city is described as being empty and lifeless because of this invention.

Television.

400

The final destruction of the house is caused by this.

A fire.

400

The speaker mentions that the world can end in both fire and ice because...

Humans have the capability of ruining the world with both corruption (fire) or emotionless (ice).

400

The theme of this poem is.

Life is short and can end as easily as it began.

400

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," which quote suggests the theme?

"Neither bird nor tree would mind if mankind perished utterly"

500

The theme of the story.

Technology brainwashing humans and causing us to loose our individuality. 

500

The theme of the story.

Nature is stronger than humans and technology. 

500

The author.

Robert Frost

500

The author.

Joy Harjo

500

Joy Harjo’s poem shows that even in the face of endings, what human tradition carries on?

Eating at the Kitchen Table.