Analysis Of The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

Superior writers use a vast number of well-used elements. It is key to use exceptional elements if you thrive to be a great writer. An example of a writer with higher-level elements is Ray Bradbury. Bradbury has a famous short story called "The Pedestrian." The "Pedestrian" is a futuristic story about a man who is not involved with the world. Bradbury uses setting, figurative language, and symbolism to affect the overall succession of the story.

First, Bradbury uses figurative language to portray the negative view of technology on people. He uses similes to show how people are affected. For example, "But now these highways, too, were like streams in a dry season all stone and bed and moon radiance." Hence, this is showing a fatalistic side to the

The simile is stating that the roads are empty like dry streams. The streets are empty; because everyone is occupied from the sanity. "The light held him fixed like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest." Meaning, Mr. Mead has not seen light in a while. The light is vanished; because the people do not use them. "...Where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multicolored lights their faces, but never really touching them." Sought as dead, the people are absorbed in technology. Also, Bradbury uses metaphors in his story. "He stood entranced not unlike a night moth, stunned by the illumination, then drawn toward it." Referring to him as a person who has not seen luminosity in a while. "The moon was high and clear among the stars and the houses were gray and silent." The house being gray and silent refers to the people not communicating, and the people being consumed in their homes.