In Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian”, humans are too involved in technology causing them to become unaware of the world around them. No one in the society takes time away from their television to appreciate nature and the people in their lives. The people in the society live a repetitive lifestyle consisting of work and television. The main character, Leonard Mead, is the only person in the society to take time out of his day to appreciate nature. The story states,“In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time (Bradbury 8).” The quote is significant because it shows you how little attention the outside world receives. Leonard Mead is the only one walking outside
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In the story the doctors are replaced with mechanics and a snake like machine. Also, fire house dogs are replaced with a mechanical figure that are used to attack and get rid of things that do not belong. Stated in the story, “The other machine was operated by an equally impersonal fellow in non-stainable reddish-brown overalls. This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum (Bradbury page 6).” The statement shows how impersonal the society is. Instead of going to an emergency room and having teams of doctors work on a person, two men show up to the person house with a machine that “fixes” the person. It is like the people in the society are dolls, and when something breaks it is just put back together like it never happened. Another quote in the text states, “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse (Bradbury page 10).” The mechanical hound is a vicious creature that eliminates anything, or anyone, who violates the laws. In the story when Guy Montag gets curious about books, the Mechanical Hound gets suspicious around Guy. The authors uses the Mechanical hound as foreshadowing that something will happen to Montag because of his curiosity. The jobs replaced in the story are jobs that humans can do, but …show more content…
The society in the story is completely equal; all people are at the same level. If someone is above average than that person is brought down to the level of everyone else by the use of “handicap.” The story states, “Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantages of their brains (Vonnegut 3).” The handicaps get rid of advantages, but they also get rid of unique qualities in the people. In the society people can not express their thought, and that is bad because without thoughts many things would not be discovered. It turns the people into zombie-like creatures who all act and think the same things. Another quote from the story states, “I forget,” She said. “Something real sad on television.”(Vonnegut 85). The quote is significant because it shows how the citizens are not capable of comprehending.Handicapped or not the citizens have very short attention spans, which makes it hard for the people to be emotionally effected from anything that goes on in the society. In the society it is better for them to forget situations than be hurt by the situation. Technology in “Harrison Bergeron” controls the citizens so that they are the same zonbie-like
In the story the doctors are replaced with mechanics and a snake like machine. Also, fire house dogs are replaced with a mechanical figure that are used to attack and get rid of things that do not belong. Stated in the story, “The other machine was operated by an equally impersonal fellow in non-stainable reddish-brown overalls. This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum (Bradbury page 6).” The statement shows how impersonal the society is. Instead of going to an emergency room and having teams of doctors work on a person, two men show up to the person house with a machine that “fixes” the person. It is like the people in the society are dolls, and when something breaks it is just put back together like it never happened. Another quote in the text states, “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse (Bradbury page 10).” The mechanical hound is a vicious creature that eliminates anything, or anyone, who violates the laws. In the story when Guy Montag gets curious about books, the Mechanical Hound gets suspicious around Guy. The authors uses the Mechanical hound as foreshadowing that something will happen to Montag because of his curiosity. The jobs replaced in the story are jobs that humans can do, but …show more content…
The society in the story is completely equal; all people are at the same level. If someone is above average than that person is brought down to the level of everyone else by the use of “handicap.” The story states, “Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantages of their brains (Vonnegut 3).” The handicaps get rid of advantages, but they also get rid of unique qualities in the people. In the society people can not express their thought, and that is bad because without thoughts many things would not be discovered. It turns the people into zombie-like creatures who all act and think the same things. Another quote from the story states, “I forget,” She said. “Something real sad on television.”(Vonnegut 85). The quote is significant because it shows how the citizens are not capable of comprehending.Handicapped or not the citizens have very short attention spans, which makes it hard for the people to be emotionally effected from anything that goes on in the society. In the society it is better for them to forget situations than be hurt by the situation. Technology in “Harrison Bergeron” controls the citizens so that they are the same zonbie-like