The Role Of Conformity In The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

In both Nazi Germany and the futuristic society in Bradbury’s short story, there are individuals who conformed and those who don’t conform. In America the first amendment was passed to protect our freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Everyone is born with a voice, that could change the world for better or worse. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”- John F. kennedy. People who conform are usually thralled. They’re manipulated into thinking how a nonconformist leader wants them to think. Fear leads to silence and silence leads to deaths. “The world isn’t destroyed by those doing evil but those who watch them without doing anything.” -Albert Einstein. Nonconformist are people who speaks up for the rights they were born with, speaking up for what they believe in.

“The idea of anti-semitism, anti-communism and a purity of the Germanic race ideology found widespread acceptance in Germany and elsewhere,” was Adolf Hitler’s big plan. Where the population of a whole race was erased from it’s existence. The german Nazi party was a conformist that followed every order Adolf Hitler commanded. “The success of Nazi propaganda in influencing
Leonard Mead was said to be "alone in this world or 2053 A.D; or as good as alone," because he was different. He was a nonconformist, isolated from the world he lived in a society that was addicted to technology. While everyone sat inside at night in their dark houses, the only light shines comes through the screens of Tv and phones, Mr. Leonard takes a long walk outside. “People sit ‘dead’ in their ‘tomblike’ homes; walking through the neighbourhood is similar to walking through a ‘graveyard’.” The society that Mr. Leonard living in is so obsessed with technology to the point it seems like all the life and soul in everyone has been drained out. Mr. Leonard didn’t want to live like that, where devices could possibly take control of him instead of him controlling