Ray Bradbury's The Pedestrian

This article is about the author having an interview with Ray Bradbury about how people are mistreated because they was been kept uninformed and ignorant about censorship when its really about technology destroying the use of reading. This is because in the book itself, reading is discouraged (illegal) and television is persuading. The author of this article suggests that Ray Bradbury would observe to see how has technology shows a problems.People will adapt when

Future society is an extremely unpredictable subject, because people all have different views on life. Charles G. Waugh author of the short story, “Long Way Home” tells a story about a caring father losing his son, due to the world's advanced technology. On the other hand in the short story, “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradley, individuals are completely addicted to technology, allowing technology to over rule the world and take over people's minds. Although both stories show a possible outcome of the future, the more realistic future will most likely be “The Pedestrian”.

In any story authors use literary devices to impact the main idea and mood of the story. Ray Bradbury,famous for his works, uses many literary elements to impact his pieces. Devices help Bradbury develop the meaning. Developing the story, Bradbury uses many literary devices in “The Pedestrian.” Bradbury uses figurative language, setting, and symbolism to develop the idea the Mr. Mead dislikes technology.

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.” (Bradbury pg.104) In Fahrenheit 451 and The Pedestrian, the main characters witnessed the rarity of social interaction and how inclined people are to their screens. Author Ray Bradbury describes how it has gotten to the point where people are more in touch with technology rather than each other. Through foreshadowing and flashback, Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Pedestrian, and his novel, Fahrenheit 451, explain how society has become more ignorant in a technology-obsessed world.

As People Rely More And More On Technology To Solve Problems, The Ability Of Humans To Think For Themselves Will Surely Deteriorate

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.

In the short story, "The Pedestrian," by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury uses imagery to depict a society where people are addicted to technology and warns about the loss of energy, life, and humanity that come with this way of living. Bradbury illustrates this by describing tomb-like houses. When Leonard Mead walks down the street, he describes the picture as such, "... the cottages and homes with their dark windows... it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard... there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomb-like building was open." (Bradbury 1). The imagery in this quote helps the reader conjure up a scene where everyone is "trapped" in their houses, watching T.V., and technology has all but turned their house into a tomb. In

During his first story it didn’t get my attention or for me to want to more. Then after that his stories started to get me more interested in it. He seemed at the beginning to be like every other writer in a sense. Then after reading a few stories of his he seemed different to me. I don’t know what made him different but something to me made him different. Bradbury’s stories where are different in its own way. Like the sun dome it all about life on a different planet. Then with “The Fog Horn” it’s about sea creatures that come out at a single day of the year.

In, “The Influencing Machine,” author Brooke Gladstone explains that the changing media does not change our brains if we do not let it. This goes against all the fears of technology thus far, essentially making us humans the artificial intelligence.

Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” motivates the reader to envisage what our future may be like if we continue going down the path we’re on. The short story is a science-fiction narrative set in a dystopian society in November of 2052. The main character, Leonard Mead, is a writer and takes walks during his down time, unlike the other brain-dead, conformed individuals of his dystopian city, who seem to have their eyes glued to their “viewing screens.” Leonard is a free spirit, unconfined by television, modern technology, or his oppressive government. The progression of technology is dangerous because it leads to us being subject to it, or controlling us, and reprehends our humanity while eliminating the necessity of individuality-leading to conformity and a certain lack of knowledge of the real world.

The way people interact and who they interact with greatly influences how end up later in life. In “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, he talks about Leonard Meads nightly activities when he says“on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared”(Bradbury 1). This quote is illustrating the idea of how Leonard Mead’s lack of interaction with others and how he observes the way people interact influences him to be different from others. Without the lack of interaction he has, his choice to go out and walk at night wouldn’t really be as much of a unique thing, but due to the fact that most people choose to sit

The PBS article on film adaption discusses the challenges of adapting a novel into film and the changes film makers may need to make. There are many differences between the two due to their prepositional setups. This can cause key factors of a novel to be lost once transferred into a film. This includes a narrator, personal attachments with the characters, engaging your imagination and possibly even scenes due to the time limitation a film has(PBS). However, when a director takes on this challenge they’re able to alter the novel and fix any faults they see. They also must make many attempts to successfully convey the protagonist’s emotions through other tools with actions or visual aids. This results in the director's

It is interesting how individuals are those who make the greatest advances in mankind, yet it is human nature to want to be a part of something, to conform to those around them. Those who go against their basic instincts and think out loud are those who are first considered mavericks or protestors but over times become heroes to future generations. Which is why being an individual is the greatest think one can be. In both Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell individuals are punished or casted away from society as they are a danger to the artificially created stability which lies within these societies. In these dystopias measures have been taken to insure individual thinking is no longer possible.

Finally, there are people who will always be complacent about the conflicts that deal with technology and society. It is much easier for people to look the other way and pretend that conflict doesn’t exist than it is openly admitted there may or may not be a problem with technology. Dr. Lanning, another character in “I, Robot” shows his disdain for the computational brain by stating, “Suppose, there is no dilemma. Suppose Consolidated’s machine broke down over a different question, or broke down for purely mechanical reasons” (Asimov, 182). The part of the story happened when Dr. Susan Calvin and Dr. Lanning were discussing the possibility of the “brain” contemplating a human’s life and death scenario. People today do not think about the possible attacks that can be done to them because of technology. People’s complacency about technology

For ages the question has been debated, to what do humans owe our thinking abilities and can computers and other types of electronics have the capacity to think? Over millions of years humans have developed the capacity to think critically and to have higher intelligent thinking than other animals. The human brain has evolved to have a prefrontal cortex which is responsible for executive functioning. These functions include responding to complex problems, maintaining a set behavior, planning, problem solving, judging a situation, and making good, intellectual choices. With developments such as these higher functions, humans have the ability to fully comprehend situations with their minds, and can act at their own free will to make choices, unlike computers. Computers must be acted upon in order to “think” or to search for an answer. Computers are an invention created by man. They must be programmed to something, they do not exist or act without the assistance of man. Since computers are not able to think on their own and must be programmed by man, a computer should not be considered to know how to think.