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The Pedestrian
Based on the wording of the question, it seems like explanations need to be provided for the statements that fit with Leonard Mead. Of the four statements, I feel that "feels trapped" is the only...
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Based on the wording of the question, it seems that the answer only needs to explain the items that do apply to "The Pedestrian." Totalitarian government: This applies to the story. The...
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The Pedestrian
It's a little tricky to identify irony in Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian," but there are a few interpretive claims you might make if you need to identify that particular literary device....
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I suppose that to be entirely accurate, Leonard Mead is not being arrested and taken to jail. Mead is going to the "Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies." Mead is being taken...
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Ray Bradbury’s 1951 short story “The Pedestrian” takes place on a November evening in the year 2053. The protagonist, Leonard Mead, is engaging in his favorite pastime—taking a solitary...
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The Pedestrian
In Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian," Mr. Mead's house differs from the other houses in the city because it is well illuminated, there is no television set in it, and it is unoccupied. Leaving the...
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Mr. Mead is arrested and will be taken to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies. In the year 2053, Mr. Mead is an odd man. He lives alone, and he likes to take walks at...
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As a literary device, atmosphere describes how the feel of a place is inspired by details in a story such as objects, setting, or background. Atmosphere is slightly different from mood, though....
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The message of Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian" is a concern that technology desensitizes Americans and causes them to become alienated from others. When Leonard Mead walks at night in sneakers so...
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In the story, Leonard Mead is out walking. He encounters no one on his walk, but this is not unusual for his city. This is because all the inhabitants of his city appear to be glued to their...
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The year is 2053 and like many Bradbury stories, it paints a bleak vision of the future. Leonard Mead is a writer who prefers walking to watching television. He admits (to the robotic policeman)...
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What a great question! Honestly, you can answer this question in just about any way that you see fit. The only "objective" requirement is that your choices fit the mood of Bradbury's original...
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The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multicolored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them. The touching part is fairly...
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Some of the words at the end of the first paragraph of "The Pedestrian" and at the beginning of the second paragraph seem intended to create the impression that Leonard Mead is all alone in the...
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Leonard Mead is a writer, and like many writers he loves to go for solitary walks. They are a way of unwinding after a day's intellectual work at a desk, and they are also a means of building up...
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The authorities in this story are very strict and this is reminiscent of Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451. Mead is charged with walking for the sake of walking. In this state, there is only one...
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On the surface, Mead has committed the crime of walking for the sake of walking. In this repressed society, citizens are discouraged or maybe even forbidden from walking or leaving their homes at...
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The “horrible” crime that Leonard Mead commits in “The Pedestrian” is that he is alone and walking down the street. When the one robot police car left in the city of three million stops Mr....
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Bradbury does not give a specific reason or series of events that explains how and why the world came to be the way that it is in the story. Bradbury simply created a world in which people are...
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The short story, “The Pedestrian” takes place in November of 2053 in a large city at night. From the very beginning, Bradbury sets the mood of the story through his descriptions of the houses...
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Bradbury is talking about the flickering lights of a television set dancing across the faces of people in their homes doing nothing but watching endless channels of television. The entire...
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Because the society in “The Pedestrian” is so obsessed and enthralled with television and the 100’s of channels that are beamed to them each day, there is no need for things like books and...
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Ray Bradbury's tone in "The Pedestrian" is cautionary and foreboding. He has taken the reader one hundred years into the future and shown a world in which the machines control the humans. The...
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One of the two robot police cars left in the city stops Leonard Mead walking the city streets because his behavior is suspicious. No one walks at night in this society because they are locked up in...
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Unfortunately, I think when the robot police car takes Leonard Mead to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies, they will re-indoctrinate him to the ways of the mind-less...
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Leonard Mead thinks that most of the programming on television is mindless trash. There are two quotes that show his negative attitude to what people inside their homes are watching. "Hello, in...
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In "The Pedestrian," Bradbury uses the phrase "tomb-like" to describe the houses that the pedestrian walks by. In terms of its literal meaning, Bradbury is suggesting that the houses look like...
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Mr. Leonard Mead is a lone pedestrian, a man who walks the streets in the year 2053, a time when walking outside on the sidewalks is considered an unusual activity. As he walks along on a November...
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The setting of “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury takes place in a large city of three million people in the year 2053. Leonard Mead, the protagonist, is alone walking the streets of the...
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In the future world of 2053 A.D., as foreseen by the solitary pedestrian Leonard Mead, families would not converse and interact, but would all sit in the dark, staring at the lighted television...
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I think calling Mr. Leonard Mead by his complete name indicates two things. First, Bradbury may be pointing out that by using his full name, Mead is an individual in a world where everyone is the...
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The world of 2053 in which Leonard Mead walks the lonely streets and looks into the dark houses where only the dim light of a television shines, is alienated, dehumanized, and sterile. Leonard...
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The society in which the protagonist of The Pedestrian resides can best be categorized as dystopian totalitarian. Bradbury, whose later novel Fahrenheit 451 provided one of literature's more...
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Leonard Mead walks across buckled concrete sidewalks with grass growing in the cracks on a night in 2053 A.D. He imagines himself on a windless Arizona desert despite there being houses and...
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This passage is significant because it points directly to what an anachronism the pedestrian has become in his society. Also, this final act adds an even more despairing tone to the narrative,...
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"The Pedestrian" is a futuristic story about the threat of the then-new medium of television to human consciousness and human society. The protagonist is taking a walk in the evening, which is what...
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One of the major themes of “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury is conformity and non-conformity. This theme is represented by the citizens in this society who spend their lives watching...
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On one of his nightly walks, Leonard Mead begins to wonder what is going on in the dark houses he passes each night. He says it is like walking through a graveyard and that the people cast...
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Personification is a type of figure of speech where a writer gives an inanimate thing, idea, or animal human or living characteristics. By doing this, objects appear to have the ability to act...
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The simile Ray Bradbury uses in this excerpt from “The Pedestrian” compares Leonard Mead’s nightly walks to how it must feel walking through a graveyard. The houses are like tombs, dark and...
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Leonard Mead is suspicious to the robotic police car simply because he is the only person on the street walking. Everyone else in this society are “couch potatoes” in their dark houses being...
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A pun is a play on words. It usually produces a comic effect, because it explores a possibly different interpretation of a word. The different meaning could be caused by the fact that the word...
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To try to answer this question, simply imagine what it would say about your town or city if you could walk “ten years, by night or day, for thousands of miles” without ever once meeting someone...
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The buckling sidewalk Bradbury describes in “The Pedestrian” shows a couple of things about the society. First of all, the sidewalks aren’t being used by the people in this city. People...
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The setting is the antagonist in "The Pedestrian" against whom Leonard Mead, who loves physical and social activity, finds himself in conflict because there is a complete lack of physical and...
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Television was not introduced to the American public until after World War II ended in 1945. This was because industry was totally committed to the war effort. By 1951, when "The Pedestrian" was...
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Good question. The first detail is in the first sentence. The city is silent. Since people make noise, that means that there's essentially no one out. This is reinforced a few lines later when...
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I’m assuming that you are asking to compare the society in “The Pedestrian” to today’s society, so that is how I will approach your question. Not only was Ray Bradbury known for his...
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Ray Bradbury's story "The Pedestrian," published in 1951 shortly after the invention of television, relates to science fiction because it is set in 2053 A.D.; there are more shows on TV than in...
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Great question. In this classic story, Bradbury identifies several intersecting social trends. These come together to form tremendous problems. One is simply conformity with mass movements. The...