Now focus in on the following from question #3, page 101:
What are your impressions of Leonard's world of 2053?
- hat Leonard hasn't seen in ten years of nightly walks
- what passes for normal night behavior in the city
- the condition of the city's sidewalks
The pedestrian was an interesting story. It wasn't as an extreme future as Bradbury's other stories, so I liked it more. In Leonard's world of 2053, everyone sits at home and watches television. Leonard hasn't seen one person outside in ten years of nightly walks. The sidewalks in the city he is in are broken up and covered in grass because no one uses them. And there is only one cop car because since everyone only watches television, no one commits any crime. There aren't even any police officers just robot police cars. Leonard's world is a dystopia, just like the setting in all the other Bradbury stories we've read.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mind the Pedestrian. I personally liked a Sound of Thunder more. I do not like Leonard's world of 2053. Everyone just watches television at night. I do watch television at night too, but like Leonard, I like to go for walks when it is nice out and just get some air. Leonard hasn't seen people outside in ten years of nightly walks. Normal night behavior in the city is to just stay home and watch t.v. The sidewalks are just grass. There is barely any cement because no one walks on them.
ReplyDeleteI thought "The Pedestrian" by Bradbury wasn't that bad of a story. After walking every night for ten years, Leonard hasn't seen a person outside in their yard or walking down the street. Everyone stays in side and just watches tv at night. Like Mike said, since nobody goes outside or does anything bad, the city only has one cop car and it's a robot. After all this time of nobody going out on walks the sidewalks became overgrown and full of grass and weeds.
ReplyDeleteI did not mind reading "The Pedestrian" by Bradbury. I liked how he had a different outlook on the future compared to most. While reading the selection, I was almost frightening in a way. Everybody just stayed inside and became a part of their house and did not leave. It was almost as if the outside world had became deserted. I liked how Bradbury related to the city as a desert because when thinking of a desert I picture no people and broken down peices of nature. Like Kelly said, everybody likes to watch TV at night, but it is still nice to go out for a walk every once in a while and Bradbury's outlook on the future does not sound very appealing.
ReplyDeleteI personally liked "The Pedestrian." But i did not like the world of 2053 that Ray Bradbury created. Everyone literally sits at home every night and watches their form of television. I am okay with watching TV on some nights when its too cold or raining out, or maybe your just too tired to do anything else, but not every night. The city's sidewalks prove my point. They are overgrown with grass and weeds and not used at all. My guess is that this world is obese becasue everyone just watches TV at night and during the day the city is filled with cars.
ReplyDelete"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury was a very good story. It makes you think about how different the world can be. Clearly, no one talks a nice walk.. The sidewalks aren't used at all. The air is probably overly poluted because of the extreme use of cars. It was a little bit weird thinking that these people did not want to leave their homes at all. Ten years of not seeing people is something I cannot even imagine; every single day we see people out walking their dogs, or with their friends- it's hard to imagine a world where no one walks around. I don't like Bradbury's version of the future because staying inside all day isn't something anyone would like for our future, but it IS less extreme than the other future stories we have read. Overall, I liked it because it was interesting and different than the other selections we've read.
ReplyDeleteThe Pedestrian was an interesting story. If you didn't get it from the first two Bradbury stories, it clearly displays Bradbury's view of our future. I didn't mind this story. It was better than There Will Come Soft Rains. The point he is trying to make is similar to the other stories, though. He warns of becoming addicted to the thrill of our technology. In Leonard's world, the sidewalks are empty throughout the day. The streets are only filled when people need to travel. Television is the only thing that people seem to care about. If you are out enjoying the weather, you can be arrested for being considered mentally ill. Televisions basically control the way the people act, and Leonard was the only one to stay free from the routine of the others in his city.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury. I found it ironic that Bradbury wrote this story nearly fifty years ago and the story takes place in 2053, yet our society is already somewhat like that, but obviously not to that extreme. It reminded me alot of Vonnegut's story. I do not like the world Bradbury has created in 2053. The streets are barron each night and everyone is trapped inside like caged animals. Just taking a simple walk results in the police (well, robot police) coming to take you away and put you in psychiatric help. I think Bradbury is telling the reader where our society is heading with the advancement in technology. Again, this story was written fifty years ago so there wasn't any computers, internet, cellphones, iPods, etc., and yet Bradbury already thought this is where we were heading. I enjoyed this story very muc, even moreso than "There Will Come Soft Rain" and "The Sound of Thunder".
ReplyDeleteI did not mind the story "The Pedestrian" it was a pretty simple read and there weren't many if any at all allusions. Leonard hasn't seen a person in all ten years of his nightly walking. The normal night behavior in the city is to stay at home and just watch t.v. You can tell that this is the normal behavior and that people just stay inside all day because when Leonard is just walking around he gets arrested because he looks suspicious. Now people walk around at night all the time and it isn't that suspicious, although some people tend to think so, which isn't a good sign. The condition of the sidewalks are overrun and taken over by weeds. This just even further proves that all anyone does is watch t.v. and they don't care about the nature.
ReplyDelete"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury was somewhat sad and depressing. His outlook on the future was very different than others. In 2053 people sat in their homes and watched television for longer than normal. The outside world was left untouched. The city's sidewalks are covered with grass and weeds, not cared for or looked after. It's sad to think that the future could become this way. Although I do believe that technology will play a big part in our future, I hope it does not end up like this. I did enjoy reading the book because it was interesting and kept me wanting to know Bradbury's opinion on the future.
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ReplyDeleteThe Pedestrian is talking about how technology is taking over our lives. Simple things like taking a walk at night are deemed primitive by society. Nobody leaves their houses anymore, except when they're in their cars. The sidewalks are overgrown and crumbling because they are useless now. In their opinion, it's better to just stay inside and maybe watch the nature channel than actually go outside and see it. Bradbury is saying that television is taking away our appreciation from other things, like writing and the outdoors in general. He doesn't want TV to consume us, because it really provides us with all we need like news and everything.
ReplyDelete"The Pedestrian" by Bradbury was a pretty good story. i enjoyed how he took a different outlook on the future. He basically stated how technology was taking over and that eventually it'd be all that we have. I totally agree with that in the sense that we rely so much on technology that if we ever lost power or got our phones, computers, microwaves, lights, etc. taken away from us we would not know what to do at first. In this story, the sidewalks have become gross, crumbled and weedy because no one uses them or takes care of them. Although this story was written quite some time ago, Bradbury, in a sense, knew what he was talking about.
ReplyDeleteI found the short story "The pedestrian" very appealing. It grabbed me in and i understood the concept and moral of the story really well. The plot was very well put together also. Bradbury is trying to tell us our world relys on technology way too much versus actually doing it ourselves the way people used to it. I agree with him and think if we don't stop being so lazy our world might just end up like this.
ReplyDeleteAlso in this story the sidewalks are pretty much unkept and destroyed because everyone is too lazy to go on strolls or walks. I thought it was ridiculous how Leonard gets stopped by a policeman because he is the only one walking.
I didn't find the pedestrian very appealing at first but as it developed more towards the middle of the story I liked it more. Like all the other Bradbury short stories we have read it is a dystopia short story. However, in this dystopia it is basically a society breakdown. It describes the year 2053, and a man named Leonard who has walked the streets at night for 10 years. Leonard has never seen another person in the 10 years because in 2053 everybody stays in their houses at night and don't leave them. So normal night behavior would be to stay in your house and watch television. The story also describes the sidewalks as being cracked, and basically overgrown with plants, so it shows they are not used which also shows that people in 2053 don't walk anywhere. So overall, the story shows a dystopia based on the breakdown of basic values of today's society.
ReplyDeleteI found "The Pedestrian" a very interesting story. Like many of bradbury's stories they are about the future and in this one the year 2053. A normal night here is very quite with little to no noise and everybody in inside their houses either asleep or watching TV. The conditions of the sidewalks showed that not many people actually used the sidewalk since grass and flowers were growing over it. It shows that he thinks in the future everybody will be inside and not going outside as the description of the sidewalk shows.
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading "the Pedestrian" It seemed to me to be a typical Bradbury story. I liked The Sound of Thunder better however. It was a little scary to think of the future the way Bradbury does. Does anyone really want to stay inside and do pretty much nothing all day? The sidewalks are never used because no one leaves their house! It was an interesting short story that is different thAn other short stories, buti liked it
ReplyDeleteI liked reading "The Pedestrian" because it was different and interesting, but I didn't like the world of 2053. It was boring and no one does anything at night. In ten years of walking at night, Leonard hadn't seen a person and he got arrested just for walking. The sidewalks' condition is kind of saying that eventually people will be so into their TV shows that they won't even bother to get out for a walk at night to get a little exercise. I agree with Sam, it's showing how consumed we are in our technology and a lot of people aren't getting outside and being active as much as they should.
ReplyDeleteI liked this story very much. T me it makes me think of a summer night in a small town when theres nothing going on at night. But the fact that evrything is overgrown and hidden at night is sad. I dont like how everyone just watches tv at night because to me nighttime the best time to go out and do things but it is true that the creepy people go out at night so this future is not too far off from what we are headed for if parents stop alowing their children to go out at night. This world to me is probably really fat because they are so involved in the new tecnology
ReplyDeleteI liked the story "The Pedestrian" but I didn't like the world 2053. It went along with Bradbury's other stories about being in the future, but this one was I little more realistic than the others, like this could actually happen at some point. Like the others, "The Pedestrian" is a dystopia in viewing the future in a bad way. Of Leonard's ten years of nightly walks, he hasn't seen one other person out walking or in their yard because everyone is busy watching tv at night. Watching tv everynight is now normal and that's all that anyone does except for Leonard. The sidewalks in the city are all overgrown with grass and weeds and they haven't been used in a very long time.
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