Mr Mead In The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

The story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury has a main character called Leonard Mead. Leonard Mead has a character traits like content, observant, and courage. Mr. Mead is a really cool guy.
Mr. Mead is content because Mr. Mead loves his daily walks at 8:00 pm till midnight. He spends all his time walking so he must be content. Mr. Mead closes his eyes and pictured him in a wintry windless Arizona desert with no one in sight. He pictures himself alone on his walk but in a happy place. I know that Mr. Mead is content because he’s in his happy place walking walking through the streets of a wintry desert. He’s happy where he is he doesn't need a screen to enjoy his life. I say this because everyone else in Mr. Mead’s city runs home every day at 8:00 pm to watch T.V and stare at a screen and become lifeless. Mr. Mead doesn't like T.V and staring at a screen all day so he doesn't own a viewing screen in his house and instead while everyone is rushing home he is walking through the streets of his city. Mr. Mead is observant on his walks too.

Mead is observant because on his walks he observes a lot of things like how the cement Mr. Mead is walking on is “vanishing under his feet.” Mr. Mead takes this time to observe many things because he enjoys walking “for the air and to see.” I know that Mr. Mead is observant because when you enjoy something you take the time to really soak everything in. You go into detail on what you see, you walk slow to make sure you don’t miss anything in sight. Mr. Mead took the time to go into detail when he saw “the cottages with the faintest of glimmers of firefly light appeared in the windows.” Mr. Mead could have just said “that in the cottages there’s a light in the window.” But instead he took the time and observed his surroundings and took it all in. Mr. Mead walks alone and for that it takes