Normalcy is a broad term. A term used to describe; a norm follower, the average, the most accustomed and the ideal. In today’s society, normalcy has almost become a taboo, because everyone strives to be unique. So the real question is, what is normal? Is normalcy the same to everyone? In the short story “The Pedestrian” published in the year 1951 by Ray Bradbury, there is inconsistency of the definition of normalcy.
The short story “The pedestrian” is a science-fiction story settled in November 2052. It is founded on the main character Leonard Mead. Leonard is an author, who in the evening enjoys taking a stroll, ”that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.” (p. 69 ll.13-14), which is rather ordinary in his society. “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” (p. 72 ll. 9-12). This makes Leonard Mead an atypical, perhaps even an abnormal person, compared to the other citizens in the town. An abnormal man who is that much into fresh air and the nature, that even “his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk” (p.70 l.22) and the ”good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside”(p. 70 ll.9-10). By all of this, Leonard Mead is in fact the representation of humanity, also due his association with warm bright light, which could be a description of his soul.
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