The short description of the remains of the city that surround the house is very important in the readers understanding of the story. The poem by Sara Teasdale, just like Bradbury’s short story, seems to illustrated a world where “not one will know of the war mankind perished utterly”, a world depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. The story was written in 1950, during the years of the atomic bomb, Bradbury was contemporary with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and therefore he lived in an era that was dominated by the everlasting fear of an imminent nuclear war, which clearly had an effect in his writing. It is highly possible to assume that the city was destroyed by an atomic blast. In this particular short story, the reader is presented with a post-apocalyptic world, more precisely the post-apocalyptic city of Allendale, California. Ray Bradbury has always been a polemic writer who has brought to his readers an interesting perspective on very important subjects that affected the society in which he lived in. Bradbury mainly describes three elements of the setting, a post-apocalyptic world, a city of ashes and rubble and a house that is personified but yet inhuman.
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