Mead was arrested was because he didnt have a wife, or that he doesnt crank up the AC to get a breath or fresh air, instead he walks. Examples of this could be the fact that one of the reasons Mr. I think that Bradbury is obviously voicing his personal opinion about what society might come to in later days as a result of being so engulfed in technology and not so much on other people, or nature, or even yourself. Mead was definitely alone, but it follows soon after, which immediately raises many questions for the reader. This doesn't impact the reader quite as much because we hadn't yet truly gotten the sense that Mr. The first one that I noticed was when he said 'he was alone in this world of 2053 A.D., or as good as alone.'. That is until you notice the hints that he drops every so often. Mead is all alone (perhaps like in his other work 'There Will Come Soft Rains'). For instance, one might begin to read this piece and automatically assume that Mr. I've noticed that there is typically alot of foreshadowing in Bradbury's pieces, which can sometimes get confusing. Ray Bradbury has a pretty interesting style of writing in my opinion. Mead is quite the average human being, which is what makes this story all the more interesting as to why he ends up being taken to a psychiatric hospital. Simple things like leaves crunching underneath him, or even picking up a leaf or two just to examine it. Mead taking in all the beauty of nature (or whatever is left of it). He is not an indoor person obviously, and multiple times throughout the story the narrator focuses in on Mr. Leonard Mead seems to be a fairly simple person, and it seems to be evident that if he lived in this present time period he would be completely average. And lastly, of course, he is simply walking for the hell of it which is something in this society that the average person simply doesn't do.

Another reason being that he claims he doesnt watch television or use his air conditioner when he feels he needs a breath of fresh air. One being that he doesn't have a wife, like everybody else, to take up for him. Mead should be locked up and taken to a hospital for numerous reasons. After being questioned by the 'officer', it is finally decided that poor Mr. Only that somebody is really not a being at all, its a police car programmed to respond to 'crime' or just questionable people as a human officer would. Inevitably, the man is finally stopped by somebody. The narrator explains that the streets in the day are filled with 'a thunderous surge of cars' and all kinds of bustling and comotion, but never just people simply walking (even if they are reaching a destination by means of walking, nobody does it). Though roughly three million people inhabit this large city, absolutely nobody walks, thus he walks alone and has been for the past ten years. Leonard Mead whom, in the year 2053 A.D., walks miles and miles each day or preferrably night throughout the city. Ray Bradbury's 'The Pedestrian' is a simple short story with a deeper meaning.

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