He finishes with “all of the branches filled with invisible snow.” Meaning that the inside of him was cold.
He continues with the rather festive metaphorby saying “you could feel the cold light going on and off.” In this he is comparing flashing Christmas lights to inhaling and exhaling cold air. This statement portrays the idea of the lack of warmth being uncomfortable, the idea of a Christmas tree inside could also make the reader squirm. He then carries on saying “it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside.” Bradbury talks more about the weather, “there was a good crystal frost in the air.” Crystal is associated with not absorbing much heat and frost is a type of cold weather.
Also the car that approaches him in the street is also described as being cold, its voice was described as “metallic,” which suggests coldness and even soullessness. He deliberately sets the story in winter so that the reader can associate this with being cold. The first reference to the cold sets the scene. Ray BradburyĮxplains this by making subtle references to the cold. The emptiness in the world of 2052 is definitely prominent the atmosphere is dark, damp and somewhat miserable. This short story gives us a message that people have lived without modern technology for a long time, so people today shouldn’t depend on it. The car takes him away to a centre for regressive tendencies. The car thinks he should be inside watching television. Tells the police car that he goes walking everyday, but the car thinks he must have some other motive for walking, as nobody usuallyĭoes. He goes for a walk one evening and for the first time he meets something, a robotic police car. Leonard is a writer in the evening he walks purely for enjoyment, unlike the rest of the brain-dead civilians in his city The short story is a science fiction set in the November of 2052 it is based around the main character Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian,” is a though provoking story and it makes the reader consider what the future maybe like and how the
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