I only remember certain visuals and themes. A utopian wasted by a nuclear war.
The people who lived in this city had everything automated, the cooking cleaning and trash were all taken care of by computers.
In one particular house, the family dog is trapped inside the ruins of his home. The family is dead, their silouhettes painted on the wall outside. The dog is locked out of the kitchen and every evening he can smell fresh food cooked. The door being closed he starves outside while radiation makes his hair fall out. Eventually he passes away. The house continues cooking every night.
It's a pretty dark story. But I've been searching for a couple years now. I'm 25, and I think I read it between the ages of 6 and 8. So 17-19 years ago.
If you have any information I'd appreciate it. I'm working on a project and this book could be very useful.
Thank you
James.I'm looking for a book I read as a child. ?
You have described the plot of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains"
" The story takes place in the city of Allendale, California, which is uninhabited during the course of the story as well as the house in the story, which is the only one left standing. The story details the daily tasks of a robotic house after its inhabitants have died in a nuclear war. The title comes from Sara Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains", which also treats a post-apocalyptic setting.
The house is undamaged, it has no life, it's fully automated and sensitive to its owners and their requests and needs. It continues to serve the dead family, unaware of their absence, though aware of other external and internal disruptions such as the weather and birds attempting to land on it. Throughout the story, the house makes breakfast, disposes of it uneaten, and performs various domestic tasks day after day, until a storm and subsequent fire destroys it. As it smolders, the house computer continuously recites on the morning after."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_鈥?/a>
"Twelve noon.
A dog whined, shivering, on the front porch.
The front door recognized the dog voice and opened. The dog, once large and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud. Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience.
For not a leaf fragment blew under the door but what the wall panels flipped open and the copper scrap rats flashed swiftly out. The offending dust, hair, or paper, seized in miniature steel jaws, was raced back to the burrows. There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped like evil Baal in a dark corner.
The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here. It sniffed the air and scratched the kitchen door. Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a rich odor and the scent of maple syrup. The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire. It ran wildly in circles, biting at its tail, spun in a frenzy, and died. It lay in the parlor for an hour
Two 'clock, sang a voice.
Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind.
Two-fifteen.
The dog was gone."
You can read this story online:
http://www.gs.cidsnet.de/englisch-online鈥?/a>
AHH! I remember this book!
It's called....Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8073.鈥?/a>
I believe there is a sequel to it.I'm looking for a book I read as a child. ?
I read a book i,m looking for a child book because i love a lot of children . i want to know the habit of childI'm looking for a book I read as a child. ?
There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbur
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