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Analysis Of The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

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The short story, “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury highlights the current social trajectory of modernism and helps to warn the reader what’s happening. The short story uses a couple of methods of doing this, such as symbolism (the dirty cop car), and events (everyone staying inside). The novel warns about the issues of a society that punishes citizens for creativity and diversity, and shows the effects of what would happen if the presented information was applied to a society. Ray provides an issue in the novel, and gives a solution by warning what life would look like. The cop car orders Mead, the protagonist, to get in the car, then leads him back to his home, this being symbolic for a couple of reasons. First off, the cop car was dirty, resembling
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