ENG 3U0 Ray Bradbury “The Pedestrian” Study Questions
Answer each question thoroughly. 1. Describe the setting. Provide as many details as possible. * The setting Leonard Mead used in the short story the pedestrian show how there is no sign of people living with him or around him, it always quiet and also it set in the future(2053). It was cold, a misty evening in November and a robot like police.

Leonard Mead 2. Describe the society in which Leonard Mead lives. * Leonard mead lives in a silent and long and empty midcentury. There are not so many criminals.

3. Explain the possible reasons that Leonard Mead does not fit into this society * Some reason why Leonard Mead does not fit into his society is because large group of people tells him what right and wrong, and he has more to offer than a society and also the interest of the society stays the same but his own interest changes.

4. Mead is taken to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies. What does “regressive” mean? Why would he be taken there just for walking down the street? * Regressive: Becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state * Mead was taking their just for working because they think he has changed and he his returning to his formal self.

5. What might have happened to this society that there would be no crime, but that walking would be considered criminal behavior? What is Bradbury suggesting about society (theme)? * They consider working as a crime because they think it freedom, and you can leave the country like that. * The theme of the short story is how the future will change with technology

6) Identify 3 metaphors from the story and explain their significance. * "and on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of light appeared in flicker behind the windows." * “The sidewalks are buckling from neglect”. * “ He listened to the faint push of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction, and whistled a cold quiet whistle between his teeth, occasionally picking up a leaf as he passed, examining its skeletal pattern in the infrequent lamplights as he went on, smelling its rusty smell.”