The+Long+Rain

=﻿The Long Rain=


 * Summary:** The short story "The Long Rain" by Ray Bradbury tells of six soldiers that crash on the planet Venus where it never stops raining. When the men crashed, two of them were killed so there were only four remaining. This story starts in the bleach white jungle, the jungle is white becuase there is no sunlight and it is always raining. The four men are walking through this jungle in search of a place called a Sun Dome which is the only dry place on the planet. The men have been walking for weeks and haven't slept for one night because of the pouring rain. The men keep walking for a while and they end up walking back to where their ship crashed. When they reach the ship, lightning begins to crash all around them and they all drop to the ground. A couple minutes go by and one of the men jumped up in fear and runs away and is hit by twelve bolts of lightning. After this happened the remaining three men head off to try to find the Sun Dome. A little while later they reached a Sun dome and found out that it had been destroyed and abandoned. Then the soldiers leave and one of them goes insane and decides to drown himself in the rain but one of the others just kills him so he doesnt have to suffer. The two men walk on for a while longer and one man decides he doesnt want to go on and lets the other go ahead of him and then he kills himself. The last man keeps on walking and eventually finds a working Sun Dome and stays there.


 * Setting:** On the planet Venus in its jungle


 * Protagonist:** The four soldiers


 * Antagonist:** The rain, the jungle, isolation


 * Forms of Technology:** The Sun Domes, Spaceship


 * Main Conflict:** The men trying to stay sane in this jungle


 * Theme:** Being isolated could eventualy drive a person insane

1. Why doesn't it stop raining? 2. What drives the men insane? 3. Why don't they make some cover so they can sleep?
 * Discussion Questions:**

http://madsci.org/posts/archives/1998-02/885665657.En.r.html (information on rainforests)
 * Links:** http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201763.html (information on isolation)





Phil W