Let Me Walk You Through The Pedestrian

  In the story, The Pedestrian Bradbury made me feel so much different emotions through out his experience and his afternoon walk. He was just enjoying the breeze, the cars cruising by & the noise of the city. Until the police officer seems to be taking that as a crime. Bradbury has this real life experience and had so many feelings about the situation that instead of keeping this to himself he went home and portrayed this and wrote it into an actual story.

In the beginning of the story, a man named Leonard Mead was a simple guy who enjoyed going on walks throughout November because he loved the weather. He was an author who would write books and magazines & did what he loved. He started to not sell so he wasn’t really employed in the story. This man lived alone who wasn’t married or whatsoever. He didn’t have nothing better to do than to walk for hours, it was a daily thing for him and the fact he got pulled over and got in the back of the cops car, it’s really sad. 

Beyond this situation I feel like even today we are judged by how we look like , or dress and often get questioned by being different from others. For example just like what happened Leonard Mead in the story who is ended up taken to somewhere he doesn't belong or for something he didn’t even do. The way how the  police was & asked him “ what is his profession “ and Mead answers that he is a writer and the police voice answers back with "no profession". That was just not so necessary and just a big slap in the face.  The way Mead handles it &  acted calm through out this whole situation was so mature of him. 

Yet,  Mead is still taken to a psychiatric center at the end because his behavior wasn't acceptable in society in the year of 2053.          

                  

Overall Ray Bradbury tone in the story is more than clear to us on how he sets the scene which is lonely. Leonard Mead is different from others in this society and it showed at the end when they had passed by his house, the only house in society that outshined all the dark houses.