The Pedestrian
It was one night in 2053 when Leonard mead got arrested for simply walking. As he passes by the homes with all televisions on, oh how he wishes people would value their families instead of sticking their faces all over the television. The frosty air he
would smell each time he walks down the streets. While mead walks he enjoys the smells, sights, and sounds of the natural world while feeling lost, lonely and sad. He has done this for ten years and never once encounter another person. According to the robotic police car and the society, Leonard mead was a different person compared to normal humans.
Back then the neighborhood was the community and the family. where you were able to walk down the streets with no worries. In 2053 there was no such thing as a family. Leonard mead had no family but himself. Families weren't families anymore because the technology was all there was. People only walk in the morning and at night they are stuck with televisions. One evening he was walking alone down the streets like any other evening and night but this wasn't every other night and evening something strange happened to him and he did nothing wrong but walk like any other day but a robotics police car has stopped him. The robotic police car had no human beings inside of it but instead, the car was the one talking. The police car asked Leonard what he was doing and of course, Leonard answered the question as any other person would say. He said putting one leg in front of the other meaning he was walking but the police were much concerned about why he was walking alone and at night because no one ever did that. The police car sees Leonard as a different person because he was different than the regular humans in the society. From this point forward Leonard is told to get in the car and is taken to a psychiatric institution. He writes describing a dystopian short story in a night he was walking where his life had turned upside down.
Ray Bradbury's tone in the story The pedestrian is loneliness. In the year 2053 technology is taken of the world. Due to technology all over society, it is causing people to isolate one from another. It is stopping them from going outside. The television is holding up people from interacting with each other and in the story, Leonard proves it by explaining what he sees through the windows of others. As he walks all alone he realizes that the world isn't the world he wishes it was and he feels lonely because he knows it isn't and he can't do anything about it. In paragraph 1 it says " he would stand up on the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar ". This shows how loneliness describes the tone of the author because Leonard feels loneliness in the society where technology has taken over people.
Based on the character Leonard's own experience he described a dystopian short story in a night he was stopped by a police car for just walking. The character describes every detail of the story by saying what and how he was stopped while walking. He shares his experience with the night he was walking and sets a tone of loneliness because his society was not the way he wanted it to be and this made him feel lonely. Leonard feels lost because he has no one to talk to but himself every night. After all, he just wanted to walk and be in his world.
Overall Leonard's life shows a dystopian society where all there was is technology and the causes of technology. The way he felt towards his society affected the way he felt towards himself. Due to this, he was classified as a different person because everyone was stuck up on technology that it's made people more isolated than ever and all he wanted was to not be in the world he was in. This also caused him to get arrested and get sent to a psychiatric institution but he described every detail of his experience before getting arrested for just walking.
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