Blog Post #4: House “Pilot”

How do the characters act, and what sort of model do they provide to a reader?

House is the main character in “House”. He behaves negatively because he doesn’t listen to his superiors and he gambles with his patient’s lives. House provides a poor role model for these specific reasons. A true doctor reacts to illnesses based on scientific reasoning and proof. House is the exception.
What consequences do characters face for right or wrong choices?

House’s supervisor told House that because she is a doctor she doesn’t work off hunches because when doctors are wrong patients die. House doesn’t listen to his supervisor. He works off his hunches and strips his patient, Rebecca, of all treatment to discover her ailment by the speed of her deterioration. By the time he discovers she has a worm, she is too broken mentally to desire to be cured.

"August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) - Ray Bradbury

What consequences do characters face for right or wrong choices?

This story lacks any concrete characters and voices very little dialogue. The events prior to the apocalyptic-like environment are left to the imagination of the reader; the consequence of whatever prior actions is indisputably the absence of the human race.  

What lesson is the story teaching?

            I feel this short story is a better excerpt than fable. It is incomplete missing structure, main characters and conflict. One may argue that the fire is the rising action and that the dynamics of this short story are complete however I feel otherwise. If any lesson were to be taken I feel as if it were the fact that nature always prevails.

How do the morals of the story differ from yours?

            This being set in the future, I feel that they live their lives, or lived their lives, differently than we do today. For example they rely on technology to fill their baths with water, make their breakfasts and set their game tables. I feel as if we shouldn’t solely rely on technology for all our necessities.