Water is one of nature's elements, and it provides a
source of life support for the house and its family. It is used for cleansing, drinking
and watering the plants outside. It also serves as a source of protection, as we find
when the house responds to the fire within. But the water proves to be no match for the
destructive power of fire--another of nature's forces. In a world that has used
technological advancements for comfort, such as in the house, it is this same technology
which has destroyed the town and its people, leaving only the single house standing. In
the end, however, it is nature's elements which fight against each other over the house.
The sprinkler system and the water-spouting mice attempt to save the house, and perhaps
they would have succeeded except for the draining of the house's water reserves. Water,
a combative enemy of fire, can be a deterrent to flames; but unlike fire, which only
grows stronger and hotter as it spreads, water sources have its limits. Like the Sara
Teasdale poem of the same title, the water of soft
rains
Would
scarcely know that we were gone.
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