My story in comment 4 Behind Bars: Surviving Prison. I had a not-dissimilar experience, I was also picked up for just walking. In the ne Ray Bradbury wrote a story about being picked up by the cops for walking.
The police sometimes pick on people for no reason whatsoever but paranoia on their part, society, people who don't want to see anyone who doesn't look like them or act like them and want the police to 'clean them away'. Mead is going against the social norm, the government are wanting to eradicate him and are transforming him into a ‘living corpse’.Ray Bradbury wrote a story about being picked up by the cops for walking. Televisions, radios and any form of media are purposely deceiving people into believing that the society they are setting is right. The word empty is a form of controlling him by putting empty thoughts into his mind through the influence of technology. How is the repetition of the word "empty" particularly ominous at the end of the story? Mead hasn’t been tricked into the society settling around him Mead is to be manipulated into a person despite his outlandish personality, because it is no longer regarded as acceptable. It is a metaphor of the government controlling people’s minds and their own free will to think and believe in their own utopian world. His punishment was to be sent to a ‘Mental Institute’. He is apprehensive, knowing that the world is evolving from a utopia into the depicted dystopian nature that he had imagined. Mead is a man who is informed and educated, smart and is thinking one step ahead. He is rebellious and adverse towards the social critique that is being paved for the present. Mead is described as a man who is distinctive to others. Technology has formed into a modern day oligarchy. Technology has been able to evolve at such a rapid pace that even cars are built to have a mind of their own, placing people out of their initial jobs in replace for robotic engineering. You realise that no one is driving the car when Mr Mead approaches the car and sees no one in the car, but can only hear a voice. This source could be the government or an organisation such as the government that are in control of humanity. The car is being controlled from another source. When did you realise that there was no-one driving the police-car? Why is it that the identity of the voice in the car is kept anonymous? Who do you think is actually 'controlling' the car? This could mean that books have stop being published due to the society changing and rules being placed, with technology being so informed with information books have become prehistoric. Writing is now counted as a hobby and is no longer accepted in society as a profession. It is stating that in the future authors have become a thing of the past.
What does this particular utterance reveal about the society in which the story is set? The voice from the police-car notes: "No profession" in response to the pedestrian's statement that he is a writer. Totalitarian dictatorship has been strongly enforced onto a world that has been transformed into a dystopia. Society has accepted the reality in which they have been presented with. Bradbury uses descriptive words to express what he means. Houses at night are pitch black, without any source of humanity on the streets. Life in the future has become a dark place where people live in privacy. How would you describe life in this city in the year 2053? Consider the narrative carefully and identify specific examples of Bradbury's use of language and stylistic features that have enabled you to reach your conclusion. The parallel between gravestones and the houses. There is no source of life, no source of humanity. The city that Mead lives in is a described as a graveyard-type environment. An individual looking for change.īradbury describes Mead's walk as being ".not unequal to walking through a graveyard." In what ways is the city like a graveyard? Evidence in the story is found in the last few sentences when the police car drives past his ‘brightly lit’ house.
What does Mead's "brightly lit" house tell us about him? What evidence in the story as a whole supports this view?ĭespite the world that Mr Mead lives in, his brightly lit house symbolises that he is a different man that doesn’t want to change to comprehend to the world around him. A nation of oppression, communism and despair. The first few sentences opened up the story, describing the world around him as a blank. The starting few paragraphs say that the atmosphere is a dark, cold, blistering world in which he is alone and quiet. How would you describe the atmosphere established in the opening paragraphs of the story?
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