What Is The Theme Of The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury describes a rather disturbing scene. A city with millions in population. Yet it has streets as quiet, and as gray as the abyss. The short story covers the silent city walk of a man named Mr. Leonard Mead. From what we know it’s the November of 2053. To say that this story isn’t eerie, would be a lie, for example: “To put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences”(Bradbury). In only a few words he described this eerie scene. Mr. Mead stepped onto and over the cracked concrete, stepping over its messy seams, never tended to stay as neat and tidy as you’d expect a city to be. Then described the lack of noise as “The silences”. I shouldn’t need to explain why that’s an eerie statement, just reading over it sent a chill down my spine.

This one, is describing a situation where Mr. Mead encounters the city “police”. Where he is held at, not gunpoint, but light point, and has to answer a few questions. But let’s quickly delve deeper into this shall we? He describes Mr. Mead as a museum specimen, with a needle thrust into his chest. This is possibly describing Mr. Mead as a bug (small and insignificant compared to the officer in front of him). Also because in most museums they have a large glass-faced cabinet full of all types of bugs. All with a needle thrust into their chests. Those rooms personally always creeped me out, and the fact he’s describing a person as something on display, in the cone of light from a police car, with possibly a few hundred people watching from the windows overlooking the empty streets… more chills just ran down my