How Does Hithcher Use Imagery In The Hitchhiker

¨ The Pedestrian¨ by Ray Bradbury is about a man, Mr.Mead, who likes taking walks at night for hours and likes to watch the grey dark houses is stopped by a police around 8 o’clock and was asked many questions. He was soon asked to get in the dark cell-like car and was going to be taken to the Psychiatric Centre for Research on Regressive tendencies. The short story “The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher is about a man named Ronald Adams keeps encountering the same solitary hitchhiker as he drives alone across the country. At first, he is curious as to how the hitchhiker seems to be everywhere he goes, but then his sense of dread gradually increases. Ronald finally tries to stop at a phone booth to call his mother. A stranger answers the phone

In this quote from “The HItchhiker” the main character, Ronald Adams, is driving through the Brooklyn Bridge when he suddenly sees a man standing there with a distinctly look and for him this wasn’t the first time he saw this man. “I could see him quite distinctly - the bag, the cap, even the spots of fresh rain spattered over his shoulders. He hailed me this time.” The descriptive details given in the story gives the reader a basic idea of how the man looked like, who seemed to appear everywhere. This tells the reader that the mysterious man looks like an ordinary man, but still tells the reader that something bad is going to happen if Ronald keeps seeing him everywhere he goes. Similarly, in “The Pedestrian” this technique is also used. In the quote, the author describes the main character, Mr.Mead, walking in the evening in the dark city and just enjoying the cold and crisp evening. “To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o’clock of a misty evening in November...to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams…” The descriptive details used gives the reader the point of view of the Mr.Mead and he he saw that evening in November. Mr.Mead describes what it looked like that evening and why he likes taking those types of walks.This creates suspense because if the city is dark at that hour that means they are limited to freedom and may only