"By the Waters of Babylon"
The Narrator and main character of the story.
Who is John?
This is the main focus of the story.
What is an automated house/smart house?
A literary device used to give human characteristics, actions, and emotions to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
This point of view uses pronouns such as I, me, and my to tell a story.
What is the first-person point of view?
Author's style is...
What is the author's way of writing, including word choice, sentence structure, imagery, tone, and use of other literary devices?
Forbidden place John travels to despite his people's warnings.
What is the Place of the Gods?
This is what is implied happened to the family that once lived in the house.
What is killed by a nuclear explosion?
This is how the author of There Will Come Soft Rains personifies the house.
What is sing-song language, human emotions, and devotion?
This is the point of view used in By the Waters of Babylon.
What is first-person point of view?
The theme of By the Waters of Babylon.
What is the pursuit of knowledge can challenge your beliefs?
This is why John decides to visit the gods' place.
What is to gain knowledge?
Name one way the house continues its daily routine even though no humans remain
What is preparing meals, announcing the time, cleaning, or reciting reminders?
Personify something in the room.
What is...
This is the point of view used in There Will Come Soft Rains.
What is third-person point of view?
The theme of There Will Come Soft Rains is...
What is that humanity's own actions may lead to its own extinction, while nature will continue without it?
This is what John discovers while visiting the place of the gods.
What is the gods were actually normal people who lived in the civilization before the Great Burning?
Two-part question
This is the meaning of the poem read in the story. The author used it because...
What the poem is about is nature being unaware and unharmed if humanity were to go away; it shows how nature will prevail after the extinction of humanity and technology.
In There Will Come Soft Rains, the house attempts to fight the fire. How does this contribute to the story's meaning?
What is the house struggling for survival, even though it was never a living thing?
This is how the first person pov affects what the readers learn about the Place of the Gods.
What is that readers discover the truth alongside John and experience his changing understanding of the world through his perspective?
Both stories reveal that the characters' understanding of the world is incomplete. How do the authors develop this idea differently?
What is that Benét reveals the truth through John's discoveries about the past, while Bradbury reveals humanity's destruction through the abandoned house and its routines?
John wants to spread his knowledge to his people; this is what his dad says when he returns from his journey.
What is too much information that can kill someone? (start chaos)
Two-part question
The author uses this kind of language to make the house seem more...
sing-song/rhyming; friendly/ nonthreatening/ human
Personification adds what to the mood of There Will Come Soft Rains?
What is that it creates an eerie, unsettling feeling because the house appears alive and active in a world where humans are gone?
How would There Will Come Soft Rains be different if told from the point of view of one of the robots? (ie cleaning mice, kitchen, voice in the wall)
What is adds emotion, relationships, and personal experiences? What is adds the reader to the story?
Both stories portray a world changed by a catastrophic event. Explain one important difference in how the authors develop their warnings about civilization.
What is that Benét focuses on how fear and limited knowledge shape a society's understanding of its past, while Bradbury warns about the dangers of technological dependence and humanity's capacity for destruction?