Ray Bradbury The Pedestrian Analysis
Have you ever wondered what the future would look like? Everyone's idea of what the future will look like is probably along the guidelines of flying cars, hover boards, and robots that do your bidding but have you ever thought of the impact all this technology will have on our society. In Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian" he describes a world in which society is dominated by technology and how having all this technology around will lead to conformity, lack of imagination, and individualism. The overall theme throughout this short story is that if mankind loses its humanity then mankind may as well cease to exist.
"The Pedestrian" revolves around a man named Leonard Mead living in the year 2053. The world Leonard Mead is living in is characterized by social conformity, one which the protagonist does his best to keep away from. " And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard …show more content…
All people do all day everyday is stay inside and watch t.v it's almost as if they are under a trace that can't be broken. Due to them watching TV all the time they never went outside to look at nature and socialize with others, it became the norm for people to be isolated from each other and only care for themselves. "For so long ago he had wisely changed to sneakers when strolling at night because the dogs in the intermittent squads would parallel his journey with barking if he wore hard heels, and lights might click on and faces appear and an entire street be startled by the passing of a lone figure himself." It's as if people were on their own little deserted island and the slightest change in the tide caused them to panic. So much time had passed that they were now slaves to the screen and could no longer escape from its grasp, the screen had taken away to much from them that they were now only a shell of their former
"The Pedestrian" revolves around a man named Leonard Mead living in the year 2053. The world Leonard Mead is living in is characterized by social conformity, one which the protagonist does his best to keep away from. " And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard …show more content…
All people do all day everyday is stay inside and watch t.v it's almost as if they are under a trace that can't be broken. Due to them watching TV all the time they never went outside to look at nature and socialize with others, it became the norm for people to be isolated from each other and only care for themselves. "For so long ago he had wisely changed to sneakers when strolling at night because the dogs in the intermittent squads would parallel his journey with barking if he wore hard heels, and lights might click on and faces appear and an entire street be startled by the passing of a lone figure himself." It's as if people were on their own little deserted island and the slightest change in the tide caused them to panic. So much time had passed that they were now slaves to the screen and could no longer escape from its grasp, the screen had taken away to much from them that they were now only a shell of their former