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Comparing 'The Pedestrian And The Flying Machine'

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Ray Bradbury, a famous author, created, “The Pedestrian” and “The Flying Machine,” these short stories have a very common theme. In, “The Pedestrian,” the setting is 2053 and everyone watches tv. The main character Mr. Mead, really likes to walk, but everyone started to watch tv, so it seemed like walking was of the past. Mr. Mead then gets sent to a Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies because he was walking instead of watching tv. When reading, “The Flying Machine,” the reader can notice that the emperor seems to be a well mannered man. Then the emperor sees a flying man. After seeing the flying man he wants to get rid of him and the mans invention so that no one can use it for evil. So the emperor captures the man. In which then he executes the man, burns the man and his invention.
In “The Pedestrian” the point of view is third person limited. Mr. Mead was thinking to himself about what everyone was doing but not explaining everything that they were doing. In the story it says, “Everything went on in the tomblike houses at night now, he thought continuing his fancy,” Mr. Mead is thinking to himself that everyone is acting like they are dead. “The Flying Machine” point of view is third person objective, I know this …show more content…

The conflict in this story is man versus man. The emperor doesn’t want the man to have a flying machine because he thinks that it will bring evil to his country. The emperor said, “ ‘Who is to say that someday just such a man... might not fly in the sky and drop huge stones upon the Great Wall of China?’ ” this is showing the reader how the emperor felt about about the flying machine. The man feels that the flying machine is a beautiful gift and no one else has made this machine before. In the story the man says, “ ‘ It’s the only one in the world!’ ” the reader can tell how proud the man is that he is the first inventor of this

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