Imagery: Frosty Air, Dark, Silent, Empty, Firefly Light
Situational Irony: Mead finds out there is no one in the police car (it talks); when the police car is able to locate the one man walking in a large to win
Verbal Irony: The Police didn’t understand why he is out walking for no reason
Theme: Technology destroys human thought, individuality, and ingenuity
1. Mr. Mead loves to walk outside which is shown in, “Feet upon that bucking concrete walk, to stop over grassy seams and make your way, hand in pockets, through the silences.” He loves to walk because he believes that a man is most human when surrounded by the elements.
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The police car says, “No Profession” because it does not comprehend the need of humanity. It does not understand Mr. Mead’s desire to get back to nature. This can be shown in, “’No Profession’, said the phonographic voice’”. When the car says no profession, the car is denying the existence of humanity. Progress sees no need for humanity; therefore, the car makes no real effort to relate to Mr. Mead.
13. Mr. Mead profession reveals that he is creative and imaginative, but he is not recognized in society because no one reads anymore in his time period. This can be shown in, “He hadn’t written in years. Magazines and books didn’t sell anymore.”
14. In, “The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest,” Ray Bradbury has compered the light that Leonard Mead has encountered to pin holding specimen, at a museum. Mead is stuck by the police like a lab specimen is stuck by a metal pin. He is trapped by this light and at this point he realized what the police have done, he realized that they have been trapped.
15. Mr. Mead realized that there is nobody in the car; and the car is talking by itself. This can be shown in, “As he passed the front window of the car he looked in. As expected, there was no on in the front seat, no one in the car at all.” This shows that the car is controlled by