Answer and Explanation:
The main themes in "There Will Come Soft Rains":
- The influence of technology in people's lives: The short story mentioned above presents a day in a highly technological and automated home. Although there is no resident, we know that the human beings who lived there died, but that their daily lives were totally influenced by the technology that surrounded them and that, in a certain way, gave life to the house, which even without human beings remains functioning as if nothing it had happened. This is because in this scenario, technology has outgrown life, and it is not necessary for a house to be inhabited by humans to be managed.
- The relationship between time and death: In this story the reader realizes that death is a matter of time, as he can perceive a progressive progression of death each time he advances in reading, death begins with the family of the house and the entire city , goes on killing the family dog and goes on killing the house. In this concept, the author shows that death is inevitable and has a strong relationship with time that is omnipresent and unstoppable.
- The triumph of nature over time, death and technology: Even though it is highly technological, the house needs many elements of nature to function and maintain itself, moreover, nature is the only one that survives at the end of history, as the humans are dead, the house succumbs, but nature remains, coming to completely dominate the region.