Describe the organizational structure of the story "There will come soft Rains". What effect does the structure of the text create on the story...

Bradbury uses a ticking clock and a voice calling out the time to count down the final moments and hours in the destruction of the dead family’s house.  Like the nuclear bomb’s countdown to destroying the citizens in the story, the house that survived the nuclear blast is on limited time as well.  Many paragraphs use the repetition of “tick tock” to signal the end is coming or near.  This repetition builds suspense and panic...

Bradbury uses a ticking clock and a voice calling out the time to count down the final moments and hours in the destruction of the dead family’s house.  Like the nuclear bomb’s countdown to destroying the citizens in the story, the house that survived the nuclear blast is on limited time as well.  Many paragraphs use the repetition of “tick tock” to signal the end is coming or near.  This repetition builds suspense and panic in the reader’s mind, and the passage of time brings with it feelings of fear and anxiety.

This pattern does stop twice in the story. When Bradbury describes the dog outside trying to get in and when the house is in its final throes of the fire destroying it, the clock seems to temporarily stop.  The dog and the house are the last two “living” things in the story.  The house is “alive”, almost “motherly”, because of how it lovingly takes care of the family’s needs.

Bradbury achieves an effective mood in the story through repetition, suspense, and the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the family.