Ray Bradbury The Pedestrian Analysis

In his short story “The Pedestrian”, Ray Bradbury uses figurative language to reveal the characterization of Mr. Leonard Mead. First, Bradbury describes Mead’s shadow as “moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry.” By using this simile, Mead can be characterized as moving alone and quietly through a seemingly abandoned area, creating him as a peaceful, desolate man. Next, Mead is described as standing “not unlike a night moth, stunned by the illumination.” This simile, compares Mead to a night moth, obviously not used to and surprised by the bright light in the normal darkness, as he prefers to be at peace in the twilight. Finally, Mead is compared to a “museum specimen” when stopped by the police car. By stating this comparison, Bradbury

However, the setting of the scene plays a major part in presenting the way that Hamlet feels. Hawke is wandering around the movie store without even looking at any of the movies as if he does not know what he is looking for. Similarly, Hamlet is going through life as if he feels there is no reason to stay alive because he cannot find purpose in his life. In addition, Hawke walks past multiple movies without picking out a single one. This relates to Hamlet in the sense that he has opportunities but has not done anything to seek revenge for his father’s death like the ghost asked him to do.

Despite his injuries, he manages to change his clothes and walks back to his apartment, meeting many people on his way but never receiving any help. Once in his building, his neighbour and love interest, Lisa, welcomes him and takes care of him when he passes out from weakness until he wakes up. In the first place, the community is portrayed as extremely passive, as no one extends a helping hand when Clark is walking around the city, obviously weak and injured. People simply ignore him and he has to manage by himself. Additionally, this passivity is depicted as normal and expected, such that it suggests the very

For example, as Mr. Mead saunters endlessly down the vacant streets, he notes his surroundings: "The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country"(6). Not only does this enrich the solitude that people

He simply got up from his chair and walked toward the door without turning on any lights; when he found himself standing face-to-face with his father. He had not seen his father since his death. And, at that moment, he had the strange realization that he had become used to the idea of never seeing him again. In “Swimming at Night” by Juan Forn, the readers are first introduced to a scene of a troubled man on vacation, who is unable

Futuristic and dystopian stories are oftentimes a way for their authors to express grievances and hopes about the way their particular society progresses. For example, Ray Bradbury uses the cold, lonely, urban setting in “The Pedestrian” to suggest that extreme, government-enforced conformity leads to a frigid lack of human identity and dignity. Set in 2053, “The Pedestrian” follows an old man on an evening walk through “long moonlit avenues of pavement.” The streets are empty, the air “frosty,” and even the cottages are dark. The whole scene is like a graveyard: completely void of warmth where “grey phantoms” seem to appear through the curtains of faintly lit homes. In the midst of the cold, however, Leonard Mead walks the silent, empty

In To Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley is a man who always stays shut up inside of his house which causes many rumors about him to be spread around the town. For instance, at the end of chapter 14 it’s stated “Dill?”/ “Mm?”/ “Why do you reckon Boo Radley’s never run off?”/ Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me./ “Maybe he doesn 't have anywhere to run off to…” This shows how Boo Radley is emotionally struggling because people always are assuming things about him that can cause him to feel uncomfortable around others. At the end of the book Boo Radley acts afraid of everything like when it says “Will You take me home?’ He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.” After witnessing Jem, Scout, and Dill acting out his rumored “life story”, I infer that it must have been very weird and uncomfortable for Boo to be so close to “his children” when they were the ones who supposedly made fun of him. Emotionally he is struggling because he is overwhelmed by the fact that he is always a hot topic of the town, and the trio acting his story out didn’t make him feel any better. In the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou the last stanza is written “The caged bird sings/ with a fearful trill/ of things unknown/ but longed for still/and his tune is heard/ on the distant hill/ for the caged bird/sings of freedom.” Boo Radley

“The Pedestrian”, by Ray Bradbury, is a story about a world where technology has overtaken the minds of citizens and turned a pastime, walking, into something seen as outdated and abnormal. Unlike the other citizens in his town, Mr. Mead chooses not to pay attention to the unsaid rules, and embraces acting off his own conscious. He refrains from being drawn into a world blinded by technology and instead, chooses to spend his time walking. Mr. Mead’s behavior is concerning to society as it threatens their monopoly of control, by expressing individuality, ingenuity, and imagination. Humanity is seen through our interactions with one and there is an absence of it in society.

In the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is very secluded and far from happy. He declines going to eat with his nephew and when the two men walk into his shop scrooge doesn’t donate to those in need. Later on during the first chapter, he is greeted by the ghost of his partner, Jacob Marley, and is told about what will happen to him. The things that will happen to him are because of his greedy and materialistic nature, a prime example of the theme, money can’t buy happiness. Moving on, we will go further into the book.

Walter Mitty walked out of the Welles Turner Memorial Library to an overcast sky. He had a bag of books over his arm and started walking back to his car thinking about how boring and repetitive his life was. All he really did was work, shop, go home, repeat. When he got in his car he started looking over the books he had picked out, waiting for one to catch his eye when he noticed Casino Royale, the first book in the James Bond series and began to read. As he was reading he thought to himself how amazing it would be to be a real spy, and slowly drifted off… ...“Why did I ever think this was a good idea?” Walter Mitty thought to himself as he was dragged down the hallway to the CEO’s office of the biggest robot manufacturing corporation in

In the story the Pedestrian the main character named Leonard Mead is virtually the only person to get outside of his house and appreciates nature. He would go around walking and seeing what people are doing. All of the people that he sees are only doing one thing watching TV. Sometimes Leonard Mead might go walk for hours on end and will just walk. What does this mean for the future?

"The Pedestrian" uncovers the disengagement of its hero, Leonard Mead, and how that seclusion causes him to be withdrawn with the present. Leonard is a man who strolls through betrayed boulevards consistently, manufacturing lives of individuals who are left in their homes sitting in front of the TV. As he strolls, Leonard uncovers through his contemplations that nobody else strolls, and everybody is by all accounts possessed by sitting in front of the TV and not connecting with other individuals. The contention emerges when Leonard is halted by an un-kept an eye on squad car that requests to know who he is, the thing that he does, and why he is strolling. In the wake of accepting unacceptable answers, the auto remands Leonard to the Psychiatric Ward for Regressive Tendencies where he will probably be dealt with to absorb into society.

It is revealed that there was no alien in the town, the only aliens were the ones who turned off the power the rest was the human imagination. Their behavior changes with the paranoia and the groups which could be said for many, people’s behavior changes in a group by being more aggressive to specific person as shown in the episode. Les Goodman was a friend and a neighbor in Maple Street but that changed when everyone was suspecting him. In the episode Goodman’s car starts which is strange because all machines stopped working but his started

For example, Bradbury uses a third-person omniscient narrative in The Pedestrian to express the main character’s, Mr. Mead’s, thoughts: “As he had expected, there was no one in the front seat, no one in the car at all.” Hearing the thoughts of Mr. Mead reiterates the realization that he is alone, that he is does not act normally. As a writer and someone who walks alone at night when he could be watching television, Mead is an outcast, and the third-party omniscient narrative highlights the theme of isolation throughout the entire story. While Bradbury’s use of third-person narrative in The Pedestrian is effective in expressing the dystopian society of a city in November of 2053, his use of third-person limited narrative in August 2026 is much more effective in describing the imperfect world of Allendale, California in August of 2026. Because there are no people in the story, Bradbury was restricted in the types of narration he could have used, but by personifying the house, Bradbury achieves a feeling and a theme of emptiness. For example, when Bradbury describes the house as it

Trayvon Martin decided to go for a walk and asked Ms. Green’s 7 year old son if he wanted anything from the store and he said he wanted skittles. Upon walking from the store it started raining outside and without an umbrella, Trayvon placed the hood of his gray hoodie on his head to help shield him from the rain as he walked back to housing area. After entering the housing complex he was spotted by Zimmerman and with him being on high alert due to the recent slew of burglaries in the neighborhood and not noticing Martin before he assumed he was a threat. Martin was walking close to the buildings with a hoodie on his head, holding something in his hands that Zimmerman was unable to identify and looking back at him. At that point Zimmerman decided he had to be another burglar who trying to break into a house and he was not going to let it happen again on his watch.