1) What is the organizational structure of this story? 2) What effect does the structure of the text create on the story itself? Provide evidence to support your response.

3) The story begins with the line..."In the living room, the voice clock sang...as if it were afraid nobody would." What literary device is Bradbury using? What is the effect of the author's use of this literary device? Provide evidence from the text to support your response.

4) What do you know about what has happened to this city?

5) What is ironic about the author's description of the house on "mechanical paranoia"?

6) How does the author describe the nursery? What is significant about the way the nursery is decorated?

7) What does the author's description of the fire suggest? Provide evidence from the text.

8) What is the significance of the repeated references to rain throughout the story?