The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Journal entry 10

Five Comments

1. Everything in this house is automatic

2. The house recognizes the voice of the dog

3. The house is programmed to do things at a certain time

4. A tree falls on the house and it causes a fire

5. Everything in the house burns except for one wall

Four Questions

1. Why was everything made automatic?

2. Was everything made automatic as a result of the atomic War?

3. Why was her favorite poem " There Will Come Soft Rains"?

4. Was everything in the city automatic?

Three Words

1. Warrens:

2. Pelt:

3. Cavorting:

Two Literary Techniques

1. Personification: " In the morning the Voice-clock sang, tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would" (Bradbury 166).

2. Simile: " Heat snapped mirrors like the brittle winter ice" (Bradbury 171).

One Sentence Summary

1.  Mrs. McClellan's house is automatic house burns down due to a fire caused by a tree collapsing on the house.