Last House in By the Waters of Babylon and There Will Come Soft Rains

In the short stories, “By the waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet, and “There Will Come Soft Rains” is a short story by Ray Bradbury which is about the last house still standing on an isolated block, its robotic features still functioning. At last, the house gets destroyed by a tree falling on the house and causing fire, so clearly nature takes over. However, “By the Waters of Babylon”, which is written by Stephen Vincent Benet, is about a Priest’s son named John whom finds out that technology devastates humans, while he is on a manhood journey.

These two short stories have a similar idea about the future of technologies, yet there are different in there point of views Ray Bradbury explains The story in 3rd person point of view for instance, when he said “At eight-thirty the eggs were shrived and the toast was like stone. An aluminum wedge scraped them into the sink, where hot water whirled them down a metal throat which digested and flushed them away to the distant sea.

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The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry” (Bradbury 615) Bradbury explain the quote not using any type of humans, he use technology to explain the quote.

Bradbury used a dog in his story where he said “The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at least realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was there” (Bradbury 616) this story is in three point of view because there are no humans and there were only a dog, as we all know dogs don’t write story.

Therefore, the story cannot be 1st person of view or 2nd person point of view “By the water of Babylon’s” is a short story by Stephen Vincent Benét. The story is about John coming into manhood and must complete a dangerous right of passage

before he is accepted by his father and the elders. A naive narrator as he tells his story “My father is a priest; I am the son of a priest. I have been in the Dead Places near us,

with my father at first, I was afraid. When my father went into the house to search for the

metal, I stood by the door and my heart felt small and weak” (Benet By the Waters of

Babylon is written in the first person point of view. You can tell this right away because

the protagonist, John, says the word I throughout the story. Thus, the story is told from his 1st person point of view. “I am John, son of John,” I sang. “My people are the Hill

People. They are the men” John tells the story in first-person point of view, using I, us,

and other first-person pronouns. He uses simple words, for he has learned only the

rudiments of the English language from old books that he has found. Consequently, the

narrative is uncomplicated and easy to understand.

In the short stories, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, and, “By the

Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet, both authors have a similar view of

technology. But there both have different opinion about there point of view. The meaning

of all this is that if you know what the story point of view than you know what the author

is saying in there stories.