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    The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury explores the themes of how technology can isolate and prejudice people as well as change social norms. It describes a future where people are sedentary due to television and the main character, Leonard Mead, is peculiar for taking walks at night. A robotic police car stops Leonard for this abnormal behavior and has him committed to a psychiatric hospital, misunderstanding him due to its technological biases. The author warns that technology could redefine what is considered normal or threaten human independence.

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    The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury explores the themes of how technology can isolate and prejudice people as well as change social norms. It describes a future where people are sedentary due to television and the main character, Leonard Mead, is peculiar for taking walks at night. A robotic police car stops Leonard for this abnormal behavior and has him committed to a psychiatric hospital, misunderstanding him due to its technological biases. The author warns that technology could redefine what is considered normal or threaten human independence.

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    The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury explores the themes of how technology can isolate and prejudice people as well as change social norms. It describes a future where people are sedentary due to television and the main character, Leonard Mead, is peculiar for taking walks at night. A robotic police car stops Leonard for this abnormal behavior and has him committed to a psychiatric hospital, misunderstanding him due to its technological biases. The author warns that technology could redefine what is considered normal or threaten human independence.

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    The Pedestrian

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    Fabio Lima
    The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury explores the themes of how technology can isolate and prejudice people as well as change social norms. It describes a future where people are sedentary due to television and the main character, Leonard Mead, is peculiar for taking walks at night. A robotic police car stops Leonard for this abnormal behavior and has him committed to a psychiatric hospital, misunderstanding him due to its technological biases. The author warns that technology could redefine what is considered normal or threaten human independence.

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    The Pedestrian

    Theme
    “The Pedestrian” talks mainly about the relationship between technology
    and future, and prejudice. Ray Bradbury thinks in a future where people are
    lazy because of technology – specifically the television. The main character,
    Leonard Mead, is partially the author himself being the only human in a
    neighborhood to walk at night. Until the day the robotic police car stops him,
    and can’t understand why someone would be walking at night. Leonard
    doesn’t have a TV, he’s walking in the streets, he’s being different, and so
    he’s a threat to that way of life. He’s misjudged by a computer and sent to a
    Psychiatric Hospital.
    Ray Bradbury wants his readers to comprehend that technology is, at
    some point, dangerous to us, being a kind of brainwasher that will change
    our perspectives of right and wrong.

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