Summary Of The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

The setting in “The Pedestrian”

Bradbury creates the setting so that the reader can understand better where the story is taking place. Bradbury uses literary devices to describe the lonely futuristic setting.
In the short story "The Pedestrian" Ray Bradbury uses imagery, similes and metaphors to describe the lonely futuristic setting so the reader can understand the differences between society today and in the future.

Simile is used by Bradbury to compare the futuristic setting of the story “The Pedestrian “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow mocking like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country” (1). Bradbury compares his shadow to a shadow of a hawk in mid country because it's the only shadow so it's describing the lonely setting. Bradbury uses another simile to describe the setting. “But now these highways, too, were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance” (1). He describes the highways as dry streams because he wants to show the reader how the empty the highways were like a stream bed. …show more content…
Bradbury uses metaphor to develop the futuristic setting. "The car moved down the empty river- bed streets and off away" (4). Bradbury describes the streets being river beds to show the loneliness of the streets and the town. Next Bradbury uses another metaphor when describing the setting by, "Everything went on in the tomb-like houses at night now" (2). This shows the houses as tomb-like because tombs are empty and nothing happens. While Bradbury uses metaphor he also uses imagery to describe the

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