Close Reading Questions Bradbury sets up an atmosphere of loneliness and isolation in the opening paragraphs of the story by repeating the word alone. Throughout the opening he keeps bringing up the fact that Mr. Leonard Mead is alone because there are no other citizens walking around at night. Mead’s “brightly lit” house tells the reader that he is not a normal citizen in this society, and that he has lights on, unlike his neighbors whose only light is the TV screen. It also tells the reader that he is unique, and the reader later finds out that he is a writer who can develop thoughts and ideas. The evidence for this is when the narrator says at the end of the narrative, “...but this one particular house had all of its electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness.” The city in this society is like a graveyard because the citizens are …show more content…
He sees that these are potential problems by the result showing people being distanced from nature, and the community being destroyed. Some harmful trends in today’s society is that everyone is obsessed with upcoming technology, and an example of this is with Pokemon Go by having people behave like robots around the neighborhood. Also if anyone does read novels they usually read it on a kindle or an iPad of some sort, which is coming back to the harmful trend of technology. In sixty years time the world will have amazing technology that scientists have been dreaming of, but it will also result in some negative situations. One thing that the future holds is that people will be able to drive in self-driving cars, which will hopefully result into less car accidents. Although the future may get rid of jobs because of robotic engineering making devices that can take over someone’s job