Essay Comparing The Pedestrian, And A Sound Of Thunder

Ray Bradbury once said, “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” He wrote many science fiction stories about the future and they normally never ended well. We should listen and try to avoid the futures he wrote about in The Pedestrian, The Veldt, There will come Soft Rains, and A Sound of Thunder. If we don’t, we might end up like the characters from the stories. So what exactly were the general warnings given to us in the stories he wrote? "The car moved down the empty river-bed streets and off away, leaving the empty streets with the empty sidewalks, and no sound and no motion all the rest of the chill November night." The Pedestrian was written to keep people unique, creative, and active. In the story, everyone was the same and Bradbury was …show more content…
"You've let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children's affections. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there's hatred here." The Veldt was written to prevent us from being so dependent on technology. The children felt like the room was more of a parent than the actual parents themselves. "The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles." In There will come Soft Rains, it's obvious that we died from nuclear war. He wasn't warning us from anything in particular, but during the time he wrote this, the Cold War was occurring, so maybe it was a warning to fix our relationships with other countries while we could. "We don't want to change the Future. We don't belong here in the Past. The government doesn't like us here. We have to pay big graft to keep our franchise.