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The Dangers of Technology in "The Pedestrian"

The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury explores the themes of how technology can isolate and prejudice people as well as change social norms. It describes a future where people are sedentary due to television and the main character, Leonard Mead, is peculiar for taking walks at night. A robotic police car stops Leonard for this abnormal behavior and has him committed to a psychiatric hospital, misunderstanding him due to its technological biases. The author warns that technology could redefine what is considered normal or threaten human independence.

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The Dangers of Technology in "The Pedestrian"

The short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury explores the themes of how technology can isolate and prejudice people as well as change social norms. It describes a future where people are sedentary due to television and the main character, Leonard Mead, is peculiar for taking walks at night. A robotic police car stops Leonard for this abnormal behavior and has him committed to a psychiatric hospital, misunderstanding him due to its technological biases. The author warns that technology could redefine what is considered normal or threaten human independence.

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  • The Pedestrian - Theme: Explores the theme of technology and its impacts as discussed in Ray Bradbury's 'The Pedestrian', focusing on societal perceptions and dangers.

The Pedestrian

Theme
“The Pedestrian” talks mainly about the relationship between technology
and future, and prejudice. Ray Bradbury thinks in a future where people are
lazy because of technology – specifically the television. The main character,
Leonard Mead, is partially the author himself being the only human in a
neighborhood to walk at night. Until the day the robotic police car stops him,
and can’t understand why someone would be walking at night. Leonard
doesn’t have a TV, he’s walking in the streets, he’s being different, and so
he’s a threat to that way of life. He’s misjudged by a computer and sent to a
Psychiatric Hospital.
Ray Bradbury wants his readers to comprehend that technology is, at
some point, dangerous to us, being a kind of brainwasher that will change
our perspectives of right and wrong.

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