Up to now, we've not been greatly disrupted personally. I'm writing this in the midst of the Trump-Xi flu pandemic of 2020, just as things have started to get truly weird. Ray Bradbury, the Pedestrian (John Wilson, 7. “Through these experiences,” Eller writes, in his charmingly orotund style, “he had come to see the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species among urban dwellers-if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, this would represent an early indicator that basic freedoms would soon be at risk.” Keller, “The Revolt of the Pedestrians,” published in 1928, but was triggered by two incidents over a span of years in which, while walking late at night with a friend in Los Angeles (with one friend in Pershing Square in 1940 with another on Wilshire Boulevard in 1949), Bradbury was hassled by the LAPD. Pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr.Įller says the story was inspired in part by a very odd story by one David H. Step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in To put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to The two stories both gave us a hint of what will happen in the future and by having technology advance every year, you can see it has already got a hold of us.To enter out into that silence that was theĬity at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, The world we live in is where technology is the center of what we do, we are so involved in it we barely talk with the people around us. The story “The Pedestrian” relates to this by technology being so controlled by the people, that it changes everyone to think that there is nothing else to do but just to watch television, they feels so pinned to it that it has the television become a part of them.Īll in all, both of the stories “The Pedestrian” and “Fahrenheit 451” have a similar connection with technology and having to socialize with each other. “That’s my family.” Milread is so hitched onto the television, she calls the characters her family instead of listening to her actually family which is her husband. “Will you turn the parlor off?” he asked. The story “Fahrenheit 451” talks about this whole other side of technology and how in the future it will take over all of us. This connects to the story “Fahrenheit 451” by both of the stories sharing what will happen in the future involving technology and how we get along with each other by it showing us how we are so wrapped around television, we do not communicate with people around us. “To the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies” (Bradbury “The Pedestrian”) This is where Mead was taken because the police think it was normal for someone to just go out for a walk. This shows us how technology has changed the world and how we are so connected with the internet that we have barely any crime which is a good thing but is it such a bad thing when Mead went out for a stroll causing no trouble but since he is not inside watching television, it is a bad thing according to the police. “Ever since a year ago, 2052, the election year, the force had been cut down from three cars to one” (Bradbury “The pedestrian”). That is what Leonard Mead experienced in the story “The Pedestrian” by Mead just taking a stroll one day and then being harassed by the police for walking, instead of not being in the house watching television or hanging out with his wife. Having to wonder what is going on in the world is incredibly crazy, we have our phones and television to find out any new news happening all around the world.
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