The text the pedestrian from 1953 is a science fiction story in 2053. The writer is Ray Bradbury It is about an old man called Mr. Leonard mead who walks the streets in an American suburbia in the evening, and everybody else sitting inside watching television. He has been walking the streets for many years, because he likes the silence and think it is strange that everyone else is satisfied with living the common life. He gets pulled over by a police car that asks him what he is doing out this late, because it is not normal behaviour. The police car is a high technology car, which has no driver in it. He ends out with being arrested because they think he is doing something illegal. The story ends with him being sent to a mental rehabilitating place.
Analytical Essay of the Pedestrian
If we take a closer look on the novel, the main theme in “The Pedestrian” is going against the norms in a future, suburban society where people have become slaves to society. The main character in the novel stands out to be a loner, who doesn’t follow the norms of the society. He lives in a setting which is a desolated inhuman city. The title also refers to the action in the text, because he walks for miles in the city.
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