Ray Bradbury's The Pedestrian

The most effective way to establish and preserve freedom is sticking to one’s own person morals. The definition of “moral”, is a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do (Merriam-Webster). As a human in today’s society, it is can be easy to distinguish what your morals are and who you want to be. The morals one sets for themselves go into making of what freedom is to them. When a human has the morals of a decent person, they can act, speak, and think in a way respectful way that doesn’t interrupt another’s morals. In Bradbury’s short story The Pedestrian, there is a theme of lacking imagination and individualism. As long with The Iroquois Constitution, the unexpressed values shown were peace, death, treatment of humanity, and the organization of confederacy. In Brook’s poem, she outlines the outermost importance of life. Bradbury’s short story wasn’t just about how the takeover of technology can lead to destruction, but it also was about how one main character, Mead, stuck to his own true self no matter what the rest of society thought. The line “he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone..”, from The Pedestrian outlines how Mead was better off alone then trying to fit into a society that didn’t combat with his own morals. In this story Mead does everything opposite that the
“Live not for battles won/ Live not for the-end-of-the-song/ Live in the along”, is a line from this poem that depicts one should live for themselves, one should stick to their own morals, and that life shouldn’t be about dwelling in the past but bettering yourself from it. The overall tone of this passage is uplifting and enlightening as someone’s morals should be. Freedom should be a happy word to hear because our own selves should be happy to live in a country that doesn’t thrive from the battles we won, but thrives from the history we make