Ray Bradbury's 'The Pedestrian'

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury describes a future where everyone stays inside and watches T.V., except for one man. For the past few years, Leonard Mead is the only person who takes walks through the lonely and deserted streets, when one night the only police car in the city interrogates him and then takes him to a psychiatric center for the sole reason that he was unlike the rest of society. Often people who think differently are misunderstood and as a result, they are treated unfairly. “The Pedestrian” describes a man who acts differently from the rest of the city and in the end, is treated unjustly. As Leonard Mead walks through the neighborhood, he passes homes with dark windows which he compares to “walking through a graveyard” (Bradbury