Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, and women’s rights activist once said, “nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles”. In other words, humans are naturally meant to be diverse and individual, but we’ve grown terrified of being ourselves no matter how different, because of society. Leonard Mead from the short story, “The Pedestrian” had made a wise decision his unique self, and refusing to conform. Social conformity can be described as one who follows the majority’s or standards in society. An individual should not change their feelings, looks, beliefs, and actions to fit in with a group unless it is
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In the short story, “The Pedestrian” the author Ray Bradbury states on page 51, “they passed one house on the on one street a moment later, one house in an entire city of houses that were dark, 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”. By looking at the text, the audience can learn that the main character Leonard Mead, did not want to be conservative, dark, and dull, like the rest of his society. Therefore, he kept his himself, and his home lively and awake. This is important to note because the rest of Mead’s society was a communist community, people believed, and behaved very similarly, and anything else was perceived as unacceptable. Yet, our modern world has been trying to demolish communism. On page 51, the automaton who questioned Leonard Mead exclaimed, “Get in” (Bradbury), referring to his police vehicle. Mead had responded with absolute confusion as to why he was being taken in as if walking innocently alone was a crime. In this example, readers can take away that in this conforming society, anything out of the ordinary was intolerable to the point where one would have to be taken away. The evidence suggests, eventually within time, one may lose the person they naturally are, because constantly following someone
In the short story, “The Pedestrian” the author Ray Bradbury states on page 51, “they passed one house on the on one street a moment later, one house in an entire city of houses that were dark, 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”. By looking at the text, the audience can learn that the main character Leonard Mead, did not want to be conservative, dark, and dull, like the rest of his society. Therefore, he kept his himself, and his home lively and awake. This is important to note because the rest of Mead’s society was a communist community, people believed, and behaved very similarly, and anything else was perceived as unacceptable. Yet, our modern world has been trying to demolish communism. On page 51, the automaton who questioned Leonard Mead exclaimed, “Get in” (Bradbury), referring to his police vehicle. Mead had responded with absolute confusion as to why he was being taken in as if walking innocently alone was a crime. In this example, readers can take away that in this conforming society, anything out of the ordinary was intolerable to the point where one would have to be taken away. The evidence suggests, eventually within time, one may lose the person they naturally are, because constantly following someone