Summary Of The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury wrote 'The Pedestrian' in the 1950's set a century into the future. Mr Leonard Mead was a man of tendencies, he would walk alone at night on the same streets, never understanding the queer need for a television as everyone is hooked onto. 'It was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows'. By the use of representation of walking as an everyday activity and the ability to be stripped of this, he causes an arise out of the readers. Mr Leonard Mead seems to only reasonable and clear conscious of those around him. As predictable as Mr Mead entails we are, he stays unchanged as his value never differ throughout the story. In this day and age,
taking a stroll out at night as he did, wouldn't result in imprisonment as the main character is subjected to. I for one, feel a disappointment is society as does Bradbury who's set the character out to be a a reflection of his own beliefs. Imagery of graveyard and connecting this with people seen behind the windows watching television, shapes them into looking like the 'bad guys'. He's successfully used our ever present technology to scare us away from our impending future.