Mead lives in a very dark society and living with brainwashed people. The reader’s imagination plays a huge role in this story, according to the settings Mr. The Pedestrian is a short horror science fiction story. He carefully walks in silence to avoid making noise, because dogs will disturb his journey by barking and lights might turn on and faces will appear. Mead imagines that he is crossing a desert because he is alone.

Mead is also a former writer who is still interested in magazines and books even though in the story it says that magazines and books doesn’t sell due to the dominance of the TV. He also lives alone he doesn’t have a wife and also no children. He has never seen anyone or any other person walking like him even with during his many hours of walking.

Mead finds his entertainment walking and his behavior is considered as regressive because he has reverted to the activities from the past, since no one has walked for years other than himself. Everyone else in society relies on technology for entertainment, but instead Mr. He is very different from everyone else in the story’s society.

” And you have a viewing screen (TV) in your house to see with”?Police car ” No ”Mr. He does not have a TV and still takes a walk, which is not normal in this futuristic time setting. Mead is described as someone that has some sort of external conflict about this futuristic society. Mead is arrested for and apprehended for regressive behavior because he was going for his traditional walk during the night. Leonard Mead is the main character of ” The Pedestrian ”. This is where the setting assists in the development of the story’s themes. It is one in which the pedestrian is a threat. The setting that is “empty, silent, and motionless” is reflective of a condition in which freedom is discouraged. The setting is one in which the pedestrian’s actions arouses police interest because he is breaking the norm, acting in an unconventional and thus, not controlled manner. The pedestrian, who says, “Hello, in there” to the homes in which people are avidly watching television, walks alone in this world. This lack of external contact is what makes the pedestrian so different and the source of police interest. The setting that Bradbury constructs is one in which people remain inside, watching televisions and using technology to avoid interacting with the outside world. The pedestrian walks as freely as he does because the world around him has become inwardly drawn. The futuristic environment of 2053 is one in which technology has created realities in which people no longer interact with the outside world as freely as they used to do. The setting of The Pedestrian is on the streets, during one evening in November.

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