Imagery In Ray Bradbury's 'The Pedestrian'

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Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” is filled repeatedly with imagery. These descriptive phrases of imagery provide vivid details that make the story easy to imagine, so real and visual. Bradbury’s writing comes alive to the reader. This short story is about a peaceful man, walking by himself, who is picked up by the police and thrown in jail. Imagery helped readers understand the setting of “The pedestrian.” For starters, Bradbury in the story middle of the story is using natural details of the setting, and eventually writes about Leonard being put into the police car. Bradbury writes that “it smelled too clean and hard and metallic.” With this description, the reader can imagine the harshness of the situation and Leonard’s discomfort