The author contests the frailty of human life with the power of technology, reverses the expectations of human and nonhuman roles portraying the house as “alive” and the owners as “silhouette”. What has happen to the owners ?

The entire west face of the house was black,save for five places. Still fatether over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy , hands flung into the air. Higher up the image of the thrown ball and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down. Th five spots of paint - he man , the woman, the children , the ball - ramianed. The rest was a think charcoaled.