![]() Just like in “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury television is a big part of both stories. The government in Vonnegut’s story tortures its people in an effort to achieve physical and mental equality among all Citizens. ‘Harrison Bergeron,’ published by Kurt Vonnegut, describes reasons why equality is not what everyone believes it to be equality is a dangerous goal to achieve. Technology can evolve and inevitably force people to have no purpose in life. Bradbury predicts what could happen if this technology got into the wrong hands. It shows how people can disconnect from others and stop taking care of others. Technology is forced to take up and complete human jobs. The pedestrian plot tv#The people have lost their rights and must now be viewing tv by eight o’clock inside the house. It’s ironic that technology, which is supposed to give someone more freedom and opportunities, can take all rights away and have almost complete control over a person. ![]() Mead was taken in the police car to a psychiatric research center on regressive trends. Mead got into the car and realized that inside there’s no one, it’s automatic. If he closed his eyes and stood very still, frozen, he could imagine himself upon the center of a plain, a wintry, windless Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles, and only dry riverbeds, the streets, for company”. “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry. Mead takes long night walks waiting to see no one because they’re all watching television in their dark homes. He enjoys being out side and breathing fresh air. Mead’s who doesn’t always do the same thing as everyone else. In this story a character by the name Mr. Bradbury’s short story suggests that an individual can be separated from nature and the environment by too much technology. Despite government control and innovation, this story explores what the future could look like. The author is trying to send out the warning and show the world what will happen if there is an advancement in technological power. The residents have nothing to do but watch TV because all the jobs are done by technology. Ray Bradbury uses the setting to represent the empty and lonely world in a powerful way to show how isolated and abandoned towns will be when technology dominates the human population. The story suggests that if the planet continues to make advances as it is now, the population would become nothing more than human beings who do nothing in our lives. ![]() The short story ‘The Pedestrian’ by Ray Bradbury is a compelling plot that takes place in the future. Both stories include what it would be like to give too much power to the government in the future. Common themes include the downfalls of man’s world hence, technology destroys the environment. Science fiction often discusses the potential consequences of science and other developments. The short stories “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury are good examples of how technology with excessive government control. ![]() Science Fiction usually is focused on imagined future advances in science and engineering or major social and environmental modifications, frequently showing space and time travel or life on other world or earth. ![]()
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