The Central Ideas In Ray Bradbury's 'The Pedestrian'

The theme/concept Ray Bradbury communicates in “The Pedestrian” is police/authority and mistrust. The central idea that Bradbury tries to communicate is that when someone stands out in society, police/authority will take that someone out of society in order for the society to be equal. He creates this by using imagery and dialogue. The central idea is that when someone stands out in society, police/authority will take that someone out of society in order for the society to be equal, because in “The Pedestrian” Leonard Mead is a person who only walks outside while others stay in and watch TV. The technology was taking over. He is stopped by a police car due to walking, and is classified as having no profession. He gets in the car and is

In the section where information is given about “The Pedestrian” it talks about how “The Pedestrian” came to be. Bradbury, himself, experiences this moment which leads him to write the short story. This is because he also walked in an area of no pedestrians. When the police stopped Bradbury and his friend, Bradbury said something that the police didn’t take him serious and became suspicious of him. In the text it states, “Bradbury’s inspiration for the story came when he was walking...with a friend….On their walk, a police cruiser pulled up and asked what they were doing… the policemen didn’t appreciate Ray’s joke and became suspicious of Bradbury and his friend for walking in an area where there were no pedestrians… using this experience as inspiration he wrote “ [The story’s] composition in the early months of 1950 predate Bradbury’s conception of ‘the firemen’” the short novella that would later evolve into Fahrenheit 451.” This evidence shows that police/authority mistrust them for dialogue and stopped them because they were standing out from the others. His past helped develop his central