The cement not being kept up implies the lack of people actually walking and using the sidewalk. In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time” (57). Mead continues his walk, he indicated that “The cement was vanishing under flowers and grass. It also indicates the bustling life inside the eerie houses, in contrast to the empty streets with only whispering and creepy shadows to show signs of any life at all. This description of the town helps the reader visualize the eerie and dark setting of the “abandoned” town, although it is inhabited. Sudden gray phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomblike building was still open (56). Leonard Mead’s eyes, we see that, “On his way, he would see the cottages with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows. Using words like “hard,” “antiseptic,” and “metallic,” which do not appeal to the sense of smell or touch, also indicates the disillusioned stance towards technology.īradbury’s detailed description of the setting helps the reader visualize the dark and gloomy world bombarded with technology. The use of the word “jail” symbolizes the strong connection between technology and the dark, sad life of a prisoner. It smelled of harsh antiseptic it smelled too clean and hard and metallic. Mead “put his hand on the door and peered into the back seat, which was a little cell, a little black jail with bars. It is also implied that the residents living in the houses rarely have contact with other people, other than the people conveyed by television light, which never physically touches them at all. The reader learns the author’s point of view when the homes are described as resembling tombs, where people sit motionless just like the dead. The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multicolored lights touching their faces, but never touching them” (58). Mead is that “Everything went on in the tomblike houses at night now. The first glimpse of human life other than Mr. The powerful symbolism helps the reader to understand how strongly the author feels about the subject. Leonard Mead would long to do is to walk for hours along the streets of a “deserted” town. Throughout the narrative, Bradbury shows through symbolism, setting, and dialogue that technology can take away from nature and the beauty of life itself. Leonard Mead, has a daily routine that includes walking for hours and miles around a quiet town until he returns to his house at midnight. 2053 and technology is taking over the world. In the Ray Bradbury short story “The Pedestrian,” it is the year A.D. In the year 2016, technology is part of our everyday lives, but in the future technology will become much more advanced and powerful, and not always in a beneficial manner.
0 kommentar(er)
