The car then drives away with Mead inside. Upon revealing the depth of Mead’s nonconformity, the car instructs Mead get in and tells him he is being taken to a psychiatric institution to be studied for regressive tendencies. This questioning reveals that Mead is nonconformist in many ways: he doesn’t own a television, he is unmarried and lives alone, and he is a writer in a society that doesn’t value the written word. The car interrogates Mead, trying to discover why he is out by himself. On this night, however, Mead meets a robotic police car-the only one left in the city, since crime is virtually nonexistent. He also talks to himself, addressing the people in the homes, asking under his breath what they are watching on television. At other signalized intersections, a pedestrian pushbutton must be pushed and held for at least three seconds. For 10 years, Mead has walked the city streets alone, night after night, past homes of other citizens who sit transfixed by their televisions. At Pedestrian Priority Phase (PPP) signals, the APS operates automatically. Ray Bradbury’s short story The Pedestrian narrates the life of Leonard Mead, a resident of an unnamed city in the year 2053. The other citizens are described as if they are dead: “gray phantoms” who live in “tombs.” As he walks, Mead enjoys taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of the natural world. A chirp sound (accompanied by the walking person display) indicates that the pedestrian can cross in the east/west direction. For instance, he describes the setting by using the word silent or silence in three different places. He has done this for ten years and never encountered another person, since all the other people remain inside their homes, mesmerized by the light entertainment programs on their television screens. In The Pedestrian, Bradbury uses repetition of words and images to establish the tone or mood of the story. Where pushbutton actuation is used, a locator tone (together with audible and. As he walks the empty streets, he passes the homes of other citizens, who are inside watching television. to provide pedestrians with vision impairments an equivalent to the visual. Mead enjoys walking the city streets alone every night. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer. “The Pedestrian” is a dystopian short story that describes one night in the life of Leonard Mead, resident of an unnamed city in the year 2053. To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight oclock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.
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