My pedestrian essay
Everyday I step foot on campus and walk past my fellow peers, and we all just walk past each other like we're invisible to one another. To fixated on what's trending latest on socialmedia, too scared to look up off their phones and engage in a conversation with someone, or Maybe the fear of rejection so instead we seek acceptance through our online conversations behind a screen. We cross paths with each other but in reality were on two completely different roads of technology just searching for a reason not to look up off that leech that we call a phone sucking and draining our social lives that we used to have with one another not too long ago.
In “The Pedestrian”, the story opens with Leonard taking his daily walk throughout the city. As he walks, he contemplates the lives of the people in the houses around him, where everyone is watching television or too focused on a tiny screen. Everyone chooses not to find their happiness through reality and nature but instead people choose to live their lives in technology which causes people to be antisocial. But throughout his walk, he is stopped by a police car, which asks him a series of questions about why he is walking, his occupation, and whether or not he is married. Ultimately, mead is arrested because he is walking without a purpose and is taken to a “Psychiatric Center for Research of Regressive Tendencies”. As the automated police car takes him away, he points out his home, the only house lit in the city, but there is no answer.
The tone is loneliness, Bradbury is trying to portray the isolation by people in the later years. Because of technology, people are never outside. They are holed up in their homes and they do not interact with others. In the opening paragraph, Bradbury sets the tone of loneliness through words like “silence” and “alone” which also sets a tone of isolation.>
Leonard mead is unique among the city. He lives alone with no television and his profession as a writer is outdated, since nowadays no one reads. Leonard walks the streets late at night all alone. For ten years he has crossed paths with the home of other citizens he has never interacted with before. Despite being alone, and lonely the whole day Leonard seems contented in his isolation. He appreciates the nature he smells, sees and hears on his walks. There are other characters mentioned in the story, yet their identity is never disclosed and they are only presented as ghostly-like beings that Mead sees on his nightly walks “Sudden Gray phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whispering and murmurs where a window in a tomb like bulding was still open
In conclusion, “The Pedestrian” shows how it can be frustrating to feel powerless when face to face with authority. Bradbury knew when writing “The Pedestrian” where humanity was headed he never got to live to see humanity willing surrender themselves to be a pawn of our own technology and slowly forget about all the little things in life we once appreciated and now just take for granted
In “The Pedestrian”, the story opens with Leonard taking his daily walk throughout the city. As he walks, he contemplates the lives of the people in the houses around him, where everyone is watching television or too focused on a tiny screen. Everyone chooses not to find their happiness through reality and nature but instead people choose to live their lives in technology which causes people to be antisocial. But throughout his walk, he is stopped by a police car, which asks him a series of questions about why he is walking, his occupation, and whether or not he is married. Ultimately, mead is arrested because he is walking without a purpose and is taken to a “Psychiatric Center for Research of Regressive Tendencies”. As the automated police car takes him away, he points out his home, the only house lit in the city, but there is no answer.
The tone is loneliness, Bradbury is trying to portray the isolation by people in the later years. Because of technology, people are never outside. They are holed up in their homes and they do not interact with others. In the opening paragraph, Bradbury sets the tone of loneliness through words like “silence” and “alone” which also sets a tone of isolation.>
Leonard mead is unique among the city. He lives alone with no television and his profession as a writer is outdated, since nowadays no one reads. Leonard walks the streets late at night all alone. For ten years he has crossed paths with the home of other citizens he has never interacted with before. Despite being alone, and lonely the whole day Leonard seems contented in his isolation. He appreciates the nature he smells, sees and hears on his walks. There are other characters mentioned in the story, yet their identity is never disclosed and they are only presented as ghostly-like beings that Mead sees on his nightly walks “Sudden Gray phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whispering and murmurs where a window in a tomb like bulding was still open
In conclusion, “The Pedestrian” shows how it can be frustrating to feel powerless when face to face with authority. Bradbury knew when writing “The Pedestrian” where humanity was headed he never got to live to see humanity willing surrender themselves to be a pawn of our own technology and slowly forget about all the little things in life we once appreciated and now just take for granted
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