LET ME WALK YOU THROUGH THE PEDESTRIAN

                 In the story, The Pedestrian Bradbury felt so much emotions through out this outrageous experience and his afternoon walk. He felt flustered and agitated when he was simply strolling the streets and then suddenly being stopped by a police officer. He was just enjoying the crisp breeze, the cars cruising by, and the city lights beaming down, which the police officer seems to be taking that as a crime. Bradbury has this real life experience and had so many feelings about the situation that instead of keeping this to himself he went home and portrayed this and wrote it into an actual story.
                 Ray Bradbury sets the story in a futuristic setting in the year of 2053. His tone in the story is somewhat lonely. He gives us the image of him walking by himself so clearly and precise to the point that we feel we are walking behind him and just present in that very moment. Bradbury's tone in the beginning of the story is so calm and detailed that it drags us in to keep reading more. For example the way he describes what he sees on his walk and how the streets were like streams in a dry season. To me he is drawing an image in our heads to see how quiet the streets were with not one person to be seen.
                 The character in this story who he goes by Leonard Mead, Ray sets him as different from others in the story. Present day today there is nothing wrong by taking a walk on nights. But the way Ray sets the scene in the year of 2053 it's strange to see a man on the streets walking alone enjoying a night walk. Leonard Mead seems to be so calm and honest the way he handles the situation when the police car stops and questions his authority and purpose that night. The way he is being portrayed in this story almost seems as if he is alone in this world and isolated from society. Overall he is seen as this innocent man with curiosity and obviously different from others in the year of 2053.
                  The plot of this story is very obvious and simple to a man (Leonard Mead) who was just strolling on a November night when a police car out of the mist comes, questions his authority and ends up taking him to a psychiatric center. But beyond this situation I feel like even today we are judged, looked at, and questioned by being different from others just like what happened Leonard Mead in the story who is ended up taken to somewhere he doesn't belong. The police voice asks him what is his profession and Mead answers that he is a writer and the police voice answers back with "no profession". This is a huge insult but Mead acts calm and collective through out this whole situation which doesn't cause more chaos or problems which leads to the falling action. Clearly Mead is taken to a psychiatric center at the end because his behavior wasn't acceptable in society in the year of 2053.             
                  Overall Ray Bradbury tone in the story is lonely and clear to us on how he sets the scene. Leonard Mead seems to be described different from others in society and how at the end they passed by his house, the only house in society that outshined all the dark houses. The plot is simple and easy between this innocent mans' actions judged by a 2053 police car which leads him taking him to a psychiatric center.