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    The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury depicts a dystopian future in the year 2053 where technology has caused people to lose their humanity. In this future, people never leave their homes and spend all their time glued to viewing screens, while the main character Mr. Mead is an outlier who enjoys taking walks outside at night to experience nature. The story illustrates how people have become dependent on technology and disconnected from each other. It also shows how nonconformity is viewed as deviant, as Mr. Mead is arrested simply for taking walks. The story is a critique of how an overreliance on technology could dehumanize society and cause people to lose aspects of their humanity.

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    The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury depicts a dystopian future in the year 2053 where technology has caused people to lose their humanity. In this future, people never leave their homes and spend all their time glued to viewing screens, while the main character Mr. Mead is an outlier who enjoys taking walks outside at night to experience nature. The story illustrates how people have become dependent on technology and disconnected from each other. It also shows how nonconformity is viewed as deviant, as Mr. Mead is arrested simply for taking walks. The story is a critique of how an overreliance on technology could dehumanize society and cause people to lose aspects of their humanity.

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    The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury depicts a dystopian future in the year 2053 where technology has caused people to lose their humanity. In this future, people never leave their homes and spend all their time glued to viewing screens, while the main character Mr. Mead is an outlier who enjoys taking walks outside at night to experience nature. The story illustrates how people have become dependent on technology and disconnected from each other. It also shows how nonconformity is viewed as deviant, as Mr. Mead is arrested simply for taking walks. The story is a critique of how an overreliance on technology could dehumanize society and cause people to lose aspects of their humanity.

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    Jesus Stiven Ospina

    Norma Ojeda

    English Literature

    March 31, 2020

    The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury

    In the future of 2053, people spend their days and nights inside, watching TV
    and consuming mindless entertainment. Mead is very atypical, probably seen as a
    deviant, as he does not have a “viewing screen to see with” in his house, not even
    a ‘‘wife to give him an alibi’’ and loves walking to enjoy the fresh air. The
    Pedestrian is about the way technology ‘‘progress’’ caused indeed dehumanization
    ‘‘regression’’ in the future of 2053.

    On one hand, Mr. Mead is described as a warm person, a character who


    represents and reflects humanity. Mr. Mead is a free-spirited human described as
    the ‘‘the shadow of a hawk’’. He breaths nature, he enjoys the fresh air as he walks
    the deserted streets at night ‘‘what Mr. Mead most dearly loved to do… Walking for
    air. Walking to see’’. On the other hand, people have become dependent on
    technology; they may easily glue themselves to the television ‘‘like the dead’’ in
    their ‘‘tombs, ill-lit by television light’’ Bradbury compares the houses to ‘‘tombs’’
    inhabited by ‘‘grey phantoms’’ where inhabitants are lifeless, motionless and
    submissive towards soul-consuming entertainment.

    Secondly, the loss of humanity is illustrated by the poor interaction among


    people. Do people barely connect and share with others, but they only interact
    with the people on their screens ‘‘the gray or multicolored lights touching their
    faces, but never really touching them’’. It implies that people do not care for
    others, do not look after others’ humanity. By the same token, Mr. Mead prefers to
    talk to himself. He speaks out: “What’s up tonight on Channel 4 Channel 7,
    Channel 9?” as if someone else were with him. He knows real interaction and
    connection with people is odd. Instead, he has found himself connecting with
    solitude and nature. Likewise, we can see the dehumanizing effect of technology in
    the view of the fact that writing is not considered an occupation ‘‘"Business or
    profession?" "I guess you'd call me a writer." "No profession," said the police car’’.
    Mr. Mead, for being a writer, is considered an outcast. Who would write in a world
    where ‘‘magazines and books didn’t sell anymore’’! Technology is so widespread
    that writing is no longer important.

    Technology gives a new dimension to human life. It helps humanity to better


    lives, to have more freedom, more time. However, technology took away the only
    thing that Leonard had ‘‘Walking for air. Walking to see’’. A writer who walks is
    viewed as a threat to society and individuals who do not conform are arrested. Mr.
    Mead is stopped by a metallic voice car, an inhuman voice, authoritative itself; the
    only police car in town. There was probably no need for law-enforcement since
    citizens were docile and conformist. There are no good or bad people anymore,
    they have lost their identity, they have lost their humanity. The car is rational, able
    to make decision with consequences for the real people. It does not understand
    the human dimension of Mr. Mead’s answers. Mr. Mead is expected to follow the
    pattern, to behave certain way, to fit the standard questions, to be like all the
    others. Mr. Mead is considered as ‘‘regressive’’ in the a ‘‘progressive’’ society that
    has caused people regression of their humanity.

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