As he walks the empty streets, he passes the homes of other citizens, who are inside watching television. THE PEDESTRIAN 97 Ibe Pedestrian Ray Bradbury 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. Mead enjoys walking the city streets alone every night. The car then drives away with Mead inside. short story that describes one night in the life of Leonard Mead, resident of an unnamed city in the year 2053. 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.
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