Take note of how Bradbury uses setting to express his opinions. This is how Bradbury wants you to see Mead, the man who lives in the house. The words suggest warmth, hope, and solidarity. Note the words Bradbury uses to describe the main characterвЂ™s house. What mood does this setting create? On a dark, cold night in November 2053, the pedestrian-Leonard Mead-walks alone through the city.Setting can create a mood, or atmosphere-a subtle emotional overtone that can strongly affect our feelings.The time is an evening in the future-November 2053. Setting establishes the time and place of the action in the story.вЂњThe PedestrianвЂќ is a chilling portrayal of a society in which people are so isolated in their homes that a lone pedestrian is seen as a threat to the social order. the knack of so arranging the world that we donвЂ™t have to experience it. pp.В 384вЂ“388.Introducing the Story Literary Focus: Setting and Mood Reading Skills: WriterвЂ™s Purpose Mountain View, CA and Toronto: Mayfield Publishing Company. American Visions: Multicultural Literatures for Writers. 'Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition'. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923вЂ“1998. Science fiction, horror & fantasy film and television credits: Supplement 2, through 1993. ^ 'Theatre 10:30 - CBC horror radio show'.New York: Fortnightly Publishing Company. The story was made into an episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater, starring David Ogden Stiers as Leonard Mead. The story was adapted for radio and broadcast on the CBC program Theatre 10:30 (1968-71). In Fahrenheit 451, Leonard's character can be considered similar to that of Clarisse McClellan's uncle, who tells of a similar story repeated by her niece to Montag. According to Eller, ' composition in the early months of 1950 predates Bradbury's conception of 'The Fireman,'' the short novella that would later evolve into Fahrenheit 451.

Inspired by this experience, he wrote 'The Pedestrian', which he sent to his New York agent Don Congdon in March 1950. Bradbury answered, 'Well, we're putting one foot in front of the other.' The policemen did not appreciate Ray's joke and became suspicious of Bradbury and his friend for walking in an area where there were no pedestrians. On their walk, a police cruiser pulled up and asked what they were doing. In it, Eller writes that Bradbury's inspiration for the story came when he was walking down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles with a friend in late 1949.

The 60th anniversary of Fahrenheit 451 contains the short piece 'The Story of Fahrenheit 451' by Jonathan R. This has caused speculation that this short story is actually referring to himself, or is in some related way a message to his home town of Waukegan, Illinois. The address of the main character, Leonard Mead, happens to be the address of the house in which Bradbury grew up. There is no reply, and the story concludes. As the car passes through his neighborhood, Mead, locked in the confines of the back seat says, 'That's my house,' as he points to a warm and bright house with all its lights on, unlike all the other houses. The police car, which is revealed to have no occupants, cannot understand why Mead would be out walking for no reason, and so it decides to take him to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.

When asked about his profession Mead tells the car that he is a writer, but the car does not understand since no one buys books or magazines in the television-dominated society. It is the only police unit in a city of three million as the purpose of law enforcement has disappeared with everyone watching television at night. 'In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time.' On one of his usual walks, he encounters a police car, which is possibly robotic. Mead enjoys walking through the city at night, something which no one else does. In the city the sidewalks have fallen into decay. The story features Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in November 2131.

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