Chronological Order

The story "There Will Come Soft Rains", the story describes what happen in August 4, 2026 when humans become extinct because of nuclear weapons. First, the clock calls for get up from bed and breakfast, the breakfast stove gave a sigh and eject toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, and two coffees, and the robots clean the food that no one touches. Second, a dog comes inside to the house to look for human, but found no one. Then, it turns crazy and dies. Finally, a poem is played at nine-five, and the house starts burning. These events happen in time order in August 4, 2026. I think the speed of the house is destroyed has some significance. This shows that how useless a perfect matter will be without a user. If humans are still existed, the house may not die. The people can help on extinguish the fire. But now humans are extincted, no one is going to be able to help the house anymore. The house continues to live on after the human, but is eventually destroyed by the fire. This can be a representation of humans are completely extinguished. Not only themselves, but also the object they made. Mabye there will be some other kind of creature exists on earth later, but they won't be able to see humans or human's contributions to earth anymore!