Leonard Mead In The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

In “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche,” Rebecca Solnit argues that as technology in transportation continues to evolves; we are in danger of losing our imagination unless we “fight for free space” (Solnit page 264). I agree with her because we are not being deprived walking, are deprived of our creativity. In other words in modern day society we are told to believe everything we are told room authoritative figures and follow societal norms rightfully or wrongfully.

In the short story, “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, is an example of dystopian literature. First and foremost, a characteristic of dystopian literature is that citizens live in a dehumanized state. This is shown in the story when, “In the ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time.” This quote supports the thesis in that people are not allowed to do the simplest task of walking without reason, or acting without reason. This is a dehumanized state of life, due to there being such a thing as cabin fever, and that it is one of the most common activities of humans. To add to this, “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead,

In “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, the author uses simple, but powerful similes as a gateway to the reader understanding the setting of the story. “The Pedestrian” is the tale of a lone wandering man walking down the street at twilight. The man is then accused of being a criminal and taken back to his home, also known as “The Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.” The similes used in the story help readers fully understand and see the setting of “The Pedestrian”.

In this short story there is a man by the name of Mr. Mead who doesn’t necessarily do the same as everyone else. In this future based story, there is a curfew for everyone at which they should begin to watch TV. Mr. Mead does not like this so every night he goes out and walks around the town looking into houses. One night a police car sees him and stops him. The

In the short story “The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury tells a story of Mr. Leonard Mead who is alone and isolated in newly innovated world of A.D. 2053. In this futuristic society Mr. Mead is no longer needed as a writer, so he then walks over uneven sidewalks for ten years capturing vivid images of the society he currently lives in which is strongly impacted by technology. Throughout the text, Ray Bradbury uses literary devices such as imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism to reveal how societies may be strongly influenced by the new advances of technology.

Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian” is a dramatic illustration of the dangers of living in a world where contact with nature is deemed so abnormal that even walking alone at night is a crime. The dystopian story revolves around the tale of a man named Leonard Mead, living during a time period not so far away from our own, in 2053 CE. In the story, a robotic police car is so suspicious of Mead’s walking behavior during one pleasant night that he is taken away to a psychiatric hospital.

In the city of Waukegan, Illinois, a pair of expectant figures bore provocation for the latest addition to their miniscule family of two. Thus, on August 22, 1920, Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish expatriate, delivered an eventual novelist. To provide the necessitated essentials required to support his household, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, the patriarch of their residence, utilized his capabilities by endeavoring as a lineman for power and telephone utilities. Through his zeal and persistence for his occupation, they were able to make ends meet for several annums and led a simple lifestyle in which Ray Bradbury, their son, developed a strong endearment for all miscellaneous illusory and imaginative. He thoroughly enjoyed the concept of enchantment, which was an attribute that his parents encouraged. Thus, the youth could often be caught perusing adventurous or fantastical compositions of distinct lengths and variety. From a very early point in the duration of his existence, he had adjudicated that he’d achieve immortality through his own generated compositions. He perceived that the heroes he’d comprised in his stories would long persist after his tangible existence had either disseminated or ceased to be in its entirety. In 1934, his new residency became Los Angeles, California where the enterprising, imaginative youth fulfilled his formal schooling and solidified his career as an author. To financially subsidize his individual costs and occupation, he bore the

In the anecdote, “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche”, by Rebecca Solnit, she implies, if walking continues to devalue, our society 's relationship between body, world, and imagination will be lost. I personally do not find walking to be a cultural activity or pleasure of getting around. Instead, walking is a hassle when the “American suburbs are built with a diffuseness that the unenhanced human body is inadequate to cope with”. Furthermore, instead of making us feel guilty or attempting to persuade us to travel on foot; we should acknowledge that we now perceive: value, time, space and our own bodies in a drastically different way than older times.

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John Collier’s ‘The Chaser’, a short story that follows Alan Austen, a character who shows typically feminine or androgynous traits, displaying Alan being timid, easily manipulated, cowardly, and inevitably, the harbinger of his own destruction. ‘The Chaser’ features Alan seeking out an old man for a love potion to make Diana fall in love with him. From a sophisticated gender perspective, ‘the Chaser’ is shown to be patriarchal to start, with androgynous areas that end with the story being heavily androgynous. Based on text in the story and underlying themes, ‘The Chaser’ is Feminine and Androgynous, and Austen displays Feminine androgynous traits heavily by the end of the story.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel, Notes from the Underground Man, uses the idea of a modern dystopia by depicting a story that revolves around a distressed older man. Throughout the novel, the main character has a narcissistic belief that he is better than everyone else because of his acute sense of consciousness. His awareness however, also causes him to believe not only are people ignorant to the world around him but that they are also against him. In contrast, critics believe that the main character, the underground man, actually suffers from psychological disorders that causes him to reason this way. Psychological disorders are defined as a wide range of conditions that can affect mood, behavior and thinking, and based on his conduct in the novel, the underground man presents himself as an individual who is subjected to obsessive compulsive behavior, social repression and paranoia.

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