"The Pedestrian"
This character is the only one who walks outside for pleasure.
The pedestrian, Leonard Mead.
The story takes place in this time and place.
In the future of 2026, after an atomic bomb has been dropped.
The speaker presents these two elements as possible ends of the world
Fire and Ice.
The central image of this poem is a piece of furniture.
The Kitchen Table.
Both Bradbury stories critique society’s dependence on this.
Technology.
The story is set in this future year.
2053
The house continues to work despite the absence of who?
People, family, inhabitants.
Fire is associated with this intense emotion
This object that symbolizes the shared human experience.
The Kitchen Table.
"The Pedestrian's" loneliness and isolation of characters represent this theme.
The addiction and overreliance on technology.
The police arrest Leonard Mead for doing this.
Walking in nature.
This is the title of the poem read aloud by the house in the story.
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasedale
Ice is associated with this intense emotion (or lack of emotion).
Coldness, emotionless and dehumanization
A summary of the story
Life begins and ends at the Kitchen Table
In “Fire and Ice,” fire and ice serve as what literary devices.
Symbols
The city is described as being empty and lifeless because of this invention.
Television.
The final destruction of the house is caused by this.
A fire.
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).
The theme of this poem is.
Life is short and can end as easily as it began.
In "There Will Come Soft Rains," which quote suggests the theme?
"Neither bird nor tree would mind if mankind perished utterly"
The theme of the story.
Technology brainwashing humans and causing us to loose our individuality.
The theme of the story.
Nature is stronger than humans and technology.
The author.
Robert Frost
The author.
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo’s poem shows that even in the face of endings, what human tradition carries on?
Eating at the Kitchen Table.