Let Me Walk You Through The Pedestrian

In "The Pedestrian" A guy goes for a casual walk at night which is normal human thing to do although this police man stops him because he found it unusual for a person to be walking out in the middle of the night. The author of this story wrote this because he based it off a real life experience. In the story it seems to be empty when he is walking. The author visualizes that many years from now since it was 1951 when he experienced this, humanity would be eventually consumed by technology and going for a walk would seem out of the ordinary. 

As Bradbury is on his daily walk he ponders the lives of the people around the street he walks on. The street is lonely and empty. In his mind as he walks by the deserted streets he imagines everyone glued to their television screens. He wonders what they watch and how their lives go on. As he comes close to his home he is halted by a police officer. The police officer asks him a variety of questions. All of a sudden the officer arrests him for walking without a purpose.
The tone of "The Pedestrian" is lonely. The author envisions that many years from when he experienced this that people are going to be isolated by technology and people wont come out of their homes. Human interaction wont occur with one another. At this time what he envisioned slowly became a reality.

intro- Bradbury experience and feelings (humanity, tech. authority)

- plot

- tone (audience, topic)

- character