The Pedestrian
Dear students,
It`s the time to read our last short story for the course. Hope you`ve enjoyed the previous ones.
This time, we're going to read "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury. Have fun!!!
This time, we're going to read "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury. Have fun!!!
Questions for analysis
Instructions:
Please, choose at least two questions to answer and respond to your classmates comments at least twice.
1. How is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."
3. How does the setting of the "Pedestrian" add to the loneliness and isolation felt by Leonard?
4. What social trends does the author observe and see as potential problems for society?
ResponderBorrar2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."
I think the author wants we could compare our reality with a possible reality in the future maybe because he detected a small change when the television appeared in that time, also it is important the time when the story was wrote, it was in 1951 when the world haven't change a lot, but the author had a vision to believe that people could forget how to share face by face because they were inside their houses watching television and they didn't want to enjoy the nature, the changes of the stations, breath fresh air. Now a days we have more technology to apart us of our family and friends, most of the people cannot see the difference but in the past people used to share more than now, we are creating an along stile of live.
4. What social trends does the author observe and see as potential problems for society?
I think that in the author's time he wanted to show us that people wanted to stay in house without enjoy the live, maybe busy in their own problems without share nothing, and other important thing is how he saw himself without work as a writter in a future because when the "pedestrian" informed the police about his occupation, the police immediatily said without profession because people did not read anymore, they spend the time with the technology, in fact the police was a machine not a person, that means that the author was a wise to imagine this changings that could happen in their future,there are a lot of people who had lost their jobs, thanks to machines that remplaced them.
I share your opinion Rosi, about the answer number 4, I think that the author wants to give like a hit of reality of what we are doing, as you said in a near future nobody is going to read because we prefere to use a computer for a example, people are going to be worried for their jobs and not are going to share with other people.
BorrarI share your opinion Rossy, I think in the same way that you think, and the most important is that many people don't have conscious about it. many people think just in work, to get money and built new buildings in all places that they can without think in our nature and the effect that it can have this in our world and maybe in the future we will can't do anything about it.
BorrarI share your opinion Rossy, I believe the same because many times we only worry about our problems, work among other things, but we ignore important things like enjoying our life healthily without having to take refuge in a cell phone, or a computer. We do not stop to look at the beauty that nature offers us.
BorrarAbout question #4.
BorrarI agree with your way of thinking. He creates a world were people leave apart the interaction with other people. It's more like spending all the time in technology. Something so simple like walking is consider a problem cause by some kind of psychiatric disorder.
I share your opinion in the first answer when you say that the author wants to we compare our reality with a possible reality in the future where people don't apprecite the nature and the most important for them is the technology, it could be a big problem in the future since people just will think about technology and we would lose our customs
Borrar1. How is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarI think that if we talk now, it’s different, but it is truth that the future could be something like that future, and this the way that we are taking, that future I think is not a good future; but also, it is truth that the teenagers lived connected almost all day in a computer or a phone; we sometimes don’t pay attention to the nature, or the people who want to share, talk, walk for example. We prefer play video games instead of play soccer like in the past, I think that we are not like in that point, but we are going to be in that point; on the hand, I don’t think that we can avoid that future, it is too difficult to change the things now.
2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian.
From my point of view, the author wants that we think about what way we are taking about the future, the author talks about 2053, it is maybe a way to “create conscious” of what we are doing, or what we were doing, maybe he wants to transmit that we need to be “worried” about that future, a future where the people will be in their houses, people worried for job, playing video games, watching TV and that’s the point, Mr. Mead always walking alone while all were in their houses, Mr. Mead could be the feeling of the author, someone who feels fear for the future, as I said, perhaps he wants to transmit that fear to us. People now is busy in other things and not take time to read or explore the nature.
I agree with you Rolo, but in your first answer I would say that we are living that future he describes in his story now, we have to accept that we sometimes prefer the technology instead of friends, or even family.
BorrarI totally agree with you Rolando Calderon,with this present we are having right now it's very probable that we will hav that future,the kids do not want to go out of their houses anymore,they prefer to stay in their homes watching tv ,playing videogames or chating with their friends,it's such a shame that they don´t aprecciate it spending time with their family,friends or pets.
BorrarAbout your answer #1
BorrarI agree with you when you said people prefer to be connected in their computers or their phones, in the future people will not want to go out of their houses because of the technology, they will not apprecite the beautiful things that nature give us and maybe the social life will decrease and the things will change for us.
I share you opinion about queation # 2
BorrarI think that we have to pay atention to our life and we have to be more responsable with us and create conscious as you said because if we don't do something now for us nobody else will do it.And technogy is only losing us .
I think the writer describes a great truth. Progress brings many advantages but at the same time there are many disvantages. In our times people have stopped socializing because they are immersed with the cell pone or other social media. I think this story leaves us a teaching. It warns us to share more with loved ones.
Borrar#4 What social trends does the author observe and see as potential problems for society?
ResponderBorrarThere's a lot of people that had been sharing their opinions about these trends;however, people listen, but don't react. The main trend these days is Technology; it help us whether in medical purposes, education, communication and others, but most of us are taking the dark side of it, which is the fact of ignore how beatiful is our world, how is the feeling of going out the park and take a breath, or just stay at home and share with our families. This have been fading off, the author takes the night walks as an example of all those things we've been forgetting. We're finishing 2017 and this is our situation; in that future, how it could be?.
Question #1
ResponderBorrarI firmly believe that today's world is very similar to Leonard's in 2053, in fact Leonard's prediction happened many years before that he imagined, it is incredible how technology has changed the world and our way of thinking, Although it is true that it has helped in many positive aspects, it is also true that it has come to eradicate many positive practices; this will affect more than anything to future generations of children, childhood is not like before, children now from age 5 have a tablet or cell phone to play, do not use their creativity, but they follow a social pattern, and this It is the fault of the parents, not the children, because they are like new sponges that adsorb everything you teach them. They really are very similar worlds, but it is in our hands if we want to be like Leonard or like the rest of society; the decision is ours.
Question #2
In my opinion he wants that we to open our eyes to reality, to realize how we are really living, to realize that we no longer enjoy the natural world that is given to us, and that we do not lose the passion for reading. We live in a mechanical routine, we rarely notice small details that surround us, for joy in our country has tried to preserve the feeling towards nature, and many entities try to promote positive activities so that our culture is not lost. It is important to highlight the great scope of imagination of Ray Badbury, it is incredible how his predictions have taken place today.
I liked that you wrote, "We live in a mechanical routine", it couldn't be truer. Years ago, a child used to have a complete different story (talking about their playing routine).Currently the routine is turn on and off the cell phone, computer, video games and others, and that's all. If they had had the opportunity to know all things they're letting get passed, all the things we enjoyed, that routine could change a little. I really look up to the parents who still trying to get them to that time we had, but without taking away all those technological stuff that indeed are needed.
BorrarI share your opinion in your second answer, I mean, I didn’t mentioned about the reading in my answers, but you’re are completely right, we don’t want to read anymore, we prefer to use the computer and look for the information we need, and also about how Ray Bradbury could imagine the future and now what he thought is happening earlier than he expected.
BorrarI totally agree with you in your second answer, but unfortunately the taste for reading has been lost, since people consider it a boring activity, because they prefer to spend hours in a social network instead of enriching their knowledge and imagination through books. It is a really sad situation.
BorrarAbout question #1.
BorrarI agree with you. Now days children spend more time in electronic artefacts than playing outdoors. I believe the author wanted to show that the world is gonna be quite different because he wrote the story in 1951.
About question 2...I agree with you because the author wants to show the reality that we have living nowadays, maybe he wants to let us know how we are Killing our world with our stupidity.
BorrarI agree with you. The use of technology helps us to solve a series of tasks of different kinds. but I think we should handle a balance. We must talk more, communicate more, socialize more with our loved ones. The writer lived a loneliness, melancholy and nobody knew what was happening to him. we would have to examine if that same thing is happening in our times. And I'm so sure that's happening. When you go to a restaurant and see families together but each one carries a cell phone, tablet or computer, socializing with others not as a family. It is too sad what is happening. But we need to change.
Borrar#2 What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."?
ResponderBorrarFirst, the feeling or feelings the author tries to make us realize are, in my opinion, shame and repentence. We're conscious that is just a text, but for sure it's not a lie, or a possibility. That possibility it's up to us;nonetheless, the author wants us to reflect about it, tries to show up how it could be our world in a future. Time flies, and this supposed world he's talking about could be next year, or the next after that. Sooner or later all will be knocked down by ourselves if we don't change our way of think and act.
I think that you have the reason Eduardo, the decision is in our hands, we must change our manner of thinking and act for see a change in the world. " The change begin in yourself."
ResponderBorrarQuestion #1
ResponderBorrarI would say that we can find similar aspects between our world in 2017 and the world of Leonard in 2053 and one of them is the advance in technology because the story involves the idea that every single person is going to be watching T.V at home every night, it means that in the future, for instance, we are going to prefer to stay at home than hanging out and share with friends, and that is because technology is absorbing us, in fact, I surely say that we are living this now. Even though, one thing isn’t similar, and is that in the story there weren’t like thieves, murderess, because nobody were out at night, and there was also only a police car, it would be great that something like this happened in our time.
Question #2
I consider that what the author wanted to show us is that in the future we are going to forget how to enjoy the life because of the technology; moreover, we must take in count that this story was written in 1951 when there were a lot of changes, and I sense that he wants us to think that we are going to waste our time, for example, watching T.V as he mentioned in the story, we are going to be very busy, but not with important things, but the cellphone, computer, etc. In the story, the pedestrian, in this case Leonard Mead, just wanted to walk for air and to see, this is something that we almost never do anymore, and it’s a good way to admire the nature, the world and to forget our problems.
Hey Lau, I totally agree about your question #1, we don't have to think so much about all these things because we are now living each one of them!
BorrarIt's so sad, if we sit down to analyze the situation is very sad how all these advances have stolen us our important time which is the time that we were use to share with family, friends...
You got a point there Laura because even though it’s something the author is trying to show us, the consequences we’re going to suffer due to the biggest problem which is technology, we do not have the necessity to go so far to see the possible problems about it, nowadays we’ve seen how children are no longer the same, they don’t enjoy their childhood because they always want to play video games, to use their cell phones, computers and so on.
BorrarI agree with you Lau! Unfortunately, technology is absorbing us, we are now like "adicts" and it becomes very difficult to avoid watching TV in a whole day, or not to check our cellphones even for an hour.
BorrarI share your opinion in the question number #2 Lau, I think that he wants like create conscience about the near future, he wanted to show the lack of customs in our culture, we spend a lot of time playing video games or watching TV and don't pay atention to the nature; nowadays, the technology is like an addiction for us.
BorrarI share your comment to question # 1. Leonard's world is similar to ours in some aspects and not in others. As in the fact that the streets in 2053 are very safe and there are no thieves or dangerous people. Unlike our current world where we should avoid walking alone in the streets late at night because it could be dangerous.
BorrarAbout your comment for the question #1.
BorrarI agree with you about Leonard's world sounds good because as you said there're not problems that we have like murderers, thieves, but something I don't like is that people are getting more addicted to use technology, and that's something that affects the communication among people. But it must be a great world in which a person can walk alone at midnight without being stolen or killed.
1.How is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarI think it´s similar in some ways,like for example,if you walk at night in the streets you won´t see any kid outside,you will see most of the times doors closed for security,and you will also see the curtains closed for privacy ,we as a society are getting closer to live like in that story,soon we will have cars drive by itselfs and many more things, and the most awfull thing it´s that we will consider a simple,fascinating,awesome and alone walk at night as a very weird thing
What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."?
I think the message it´s very clear ,and if we pay closer attention to the story we´re going to find two incredible things that the writter wants to show us
1.The writter leave us an ending to choose ,at the end we find out that maybe the main character is a man with mind problems or maybe the police treats him like that,we will never know and that´s a very awesome gift from the writter
2.The writter maybe wants to leave us another message,and the message is that sometimes,the people will see us as weirdos when we do things that the "normal" people doesn't do ,we get pointed and discriminated and that´s one of the most horrible things of the human being,when we somebody doing the things that we don´t do we tend to treat him or her badly,and we really need to change that as a part of a "society"
In your Question 2, first point.
BorrarI share your opinion, I think all of those people got consumed by technology and change their thoughts, so it seems that in that time is weird go outside; even though, Leonard who didn't lose his habbits when the police officer came and treated him with rudeness and he take him to a psychiatric center because for the police a night walk in the neighborhood was odd.
That's right Cris! Now we rarely see kids playing outside, and we almost always see the doors of the houses closed or they have many walls and gates that surround it because of security. I believe that insecurity is affecting us in that way, but on the other hand we should try to do or plan familiar activities, to have lunch together in the dining room, not in the bedroom and without cellphones and tablets, things like that! Just to avoid being more consumed by technology, to share and to spend more time with our loved ones.
BorrarQuestion #1
ResponderBorrarWell, I think in reality if there are many similar aspects, for example, nowadays it is very important that people prefer to spend their time with technological devices or communicate through them with others to something as simple as going for a walk, so Therefore, the difference between what the author shows us and the current reality is not much in my opinion. Now, I imagine that in the not too distant future through technological advances and science people will become much more monotonous, sedentary and dependent, which is really worrying because they will lose all those things that make us integral and sociable in a healthy and real environment not of so much fantasy.
Question #2
I think what the author wants to show us in this story is the current reality because honestly that is not as future as it is believed, without realizing that we are already living it, what happens is that we ignore many important aspects such as the simple fact that we prefer to spend a whole day watching TV instead of reading a book and analyzing it, or maybe sitting down to talk with our relatives. I think we are losing the true meaning of "enjoying life", which is really unfortunate, as the pedestrian makes us see in story.
I think we are not poles apart on the question #2 Jessica,we are living in a world all about technology,and sometimes this is good,but most of the times it isn't,we don´t aprreciate the lonely walks or the nature anymore,we tend to aprecciate the technology instead ,and that´s one thing that the human being must change in order to have a better future.
BorrarI think Jessica you are totally right talking about your question #2, we are do not have to go that far to imagine or live this kind of future that the author shows us, those kind of things that he mentioned, spending our days watching TV and all these things are problems that each one of us live nowadays.
BorrarThe question is, if we think that it's so bad enough now, how is gonna be the real future?
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BorrarHi Jess I agree with you in your answer #1 I think you are rigth when you say the people will become monotonous, in fact I can see a big change now a days because in my time of high school we used to talk a lot during our free time in the breaktime or we used to go to the park when we went out early just to talk, unfortunatily today is dificult for some families to talk in their own houses.
BorrarHow is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarThere are not so many details about the world in which Leonard Mead is living, but there are some clues that can help to infer or to create an idea about the world 2053. First, during the whole walk Leonard did there was no interaction with people until the cops arrived. So, social interaction is lacking in that time. It looks like if there is a restriction for people to go out at night. Then, what Leonard likes to do is quite common in 2017. To go out and walk while the cold air refreshes the lunges is something that many people enjoy doing in 2017.
What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."
I strongly believe that the main point the author wants to transmit to the readers is a social change in the world. If we compare today with the time in which the story takes place you can notice a change in which people interact with others, especially at night. Leonard Mead represents the old days as he do activities that people used to do. Now, he does not fit in the world in which he is living. And this is represented in the walks he does; furthermore, it gets understandable when he is taken to the psychiatric center.
Totally in accordance with your first answer Wendoll, I also thought it looks like a prohibition for people go out, but as you said that could be lacking of social interation, and also from my point of view the police officer seemed to be very rude; consenquently, it seems people behavior also changed in that time.
BorrarI share your opinion Wendoll about the question 1, our world is no so much different than Leonard's world, people pay attention to others things and they don't care about things that are changing, things that we used to do...everything is changing but it is no necessary think in the future because we are living it today.
Borrar1. How is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarI think the author of this tell-tale didn't know how would be the future but he guessed very similar in regards of how we are living now. Nowadays there are big trouble with the use of technology, and also we have trouble with the consumism, we spend time in our cellphones, TV and computers. Kids in our days just want to get a cellphone, and we used to go outside, play hides, robbers and cops and those different games, but I think that there is no difference at all, the world stills changing and with that our thoughts and the way in that we live, no matter what, so it's neccesary people understand that we must to use this technology with carelfulness and with a correct use because this could be a cause of sedentarism, and as we know technology is a good thing, but could be a dangerous weapon.
4. What social trends does the author observe and see as potential problems for society?
I firmly believe the author thought that advance of the technology would be the big cause of people would lose their identity, our traditions as a person and family but Leonard Mead represents the person what we must to be because he didn't lose his habbits like those other, he alwayas walked his long walks, always stood there, every night; in addition, I sincerely believe that is the message, we don't have to lose our things that represents the best part of us, appreciate the nature, a long walk around the neighborhood, a talk by face to face with a friend and some other things that we had been accustomed because of the new things what still coming in the future.
In regards to your last response I totally agree with you because it shows us how this man keeps on being the same person with the same habits or hobbies, he never forgets about his likes and dislikes and it´s something everyone carry on forgetting due to technology.
BorrarI firmaly believe you are right in your 4 answer, the author showed a person who always believed in his identity, in his job and never lost the opportunity to go out and see the world, to see a person to talk, to share, just not to be along in a world that had lost its customs.
Borrar#1
BorrarI was reading your comment, and it's true what you say about that is very similar the world of the pedestrian and this year because currently you don't see children play outside or people talking in the park like some years ago, we are spending our time in electronic devices and also the TV is controlling us.
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ResponderBorrarHow is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarWell I would say that there is not much to compare about our world and Leonard's world, we are now living the most of the things that the author mentions, we don´t have to think so big in regards of imagine all this amazing things, things that at the end they are nothing more than a waste of time. We know how good these advances are about medicine and stuff, but if in our real
you ask a child if he prefers to play with his ball or use a cell phone for example, we all already know the answer.
I must say that we are lost, we are walking to a future,to a really dangerous and bad one.
We should at least be realistic and think how dumb we are wasting our time in front of an stupid screen, we have to realize that our time here is very short, is this really what we want? I don't think so.
2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."
ResponderBorrarI could say that he shows us how we are going to be in the future, he says how that we are going to be people who are gonna be blind by technological advance, we will not even notice that we are not going to be able to breath fresh air...
I would say that we are on time to do something, the thing is that it is very difficult change the minds of the whole world.
If we compare Leonard's situation with our, there is no difference at all, we do not have the freedom to walk on the street without fear of being robbed.
It is really sad.
Question #1
ResponderBorrarAn important similar aspect I found about this short story is that Leonard Mead tries to makes us see how the world is changing, the world we knew is giving in because it seems every single person becomes more interested in technology and forget about those little things and details such as walking on the streets and take some air, because as he mentioned in the story there he was by himself appreciating everything no one else was. Nonetheless, something caught my attention, there was no violence, murderous people, thieves taking advantage of others and it´s something that doesn´t happen nowadays since we´ve been suffering because of it for a long time.
Question # 4
I’ve a sneaking suspicious the author refers to how technology has helped the world with positive aspects, but it’s also damaged the way we think and act, how we face every situation in life. It seems people will care more about cell phones, television, computers, instead of enjoying nature, spending time with friends and family and hanging out. It makes me think a potential problem will be people getting sick because of the lack of working out, receiving some pure air, and all those problems will show up because people just get interested in technology.
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BorrarI share your opinion Tay, love every little detail and share as much as possible with our close friend and family, but sadly I think that we should be prepare for all kind of big changes as in the story probably it won’t be our case but maybe our sons would go throw that.
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ResponderBorrarQuestion #1 How is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarIn my opinion 2017 is almost the same world than 2052 it because people is enclosed in technology,we are slavers of technology, we don't think anything, we can se every person in the street walking with a cell phone in their hand, without paying attention to anything. Nature is dying slowly,world is turning gray but we don't realize about it,one day maybe we will wake up and find a silent,long and empty street with only our shadow with us. One day we going to imagine only the green of the world because we never take care about the world that we have, in the other hand now a days reading for many people is something stupid because they have no brain, the are stupid zombies master by technology. We don't have to wait until 2052, we are living everything know now but in the future ii is going to be worse.
Question#2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian"
I think the author with this story want to let us think about the world in the future as consequence of our actions today. We can see the lonely world in his words without people in the streets,animals, fresh air, also he wants to show how people loose time sitting in a sofa watching television o discussing. I think also the author stresses how people lost an important treasure "Reading" , he said that his profession was not important in that time,he hadn't written in years, because people doesn't read magazines and books anymore. It is going to be the future, a world without real life everybody like a zombie in a dead world.
About question #1
BorrarI completely agree with you because as you said we are slavers of technology.And it is because we just want to be with the phone,computers or in social networks.Also we don't care about share time with another person or express our fellings and thoughts to a person we prefer to post it in a social network that talk with a person.I think that is a big issue that we have to change right now.Because if we don't do something now we will live like Leonard.
Question 2
ResponderBorrarIt could be that the writer of this story wants us to reflect on our customs and culture; since he indicates how people stay at home trapped by television programs. He questions that people do not share as a family and that crime is no longer seen on the streets due to people is at home watching TV. The author also thinks if in reality the progress of the new technology will be positive. Since he sees people stopped socializing and living in slavery to that device called television. The writer reflects on why people are not more imaginative, socialize, thinking, more human. He believes that people should go for a walk; meet the nature that surrounds us. In conclusion he wants to warn us about the misuse of technology.
Question 3
This story takes place in a cold season “November, Autumn” when people in many places are sad because the weather is cold, snowy, windy, may be not much day light and in this particular time of the year people are depressed, lonely, melancholic….etc. Almost, every word from the tale expresses sadness, loneliness. The streets are described as "dry river beds"; there is no life in them. People sit "dead" in their "tomblike" homes. When he expresses all the words it can infers that people don´t walk anymore because people are watching TV. The story teaches how people live trapped in a world that is progress for them. And he sees how people become dehumanized and do not care what happens to their neighbor. When he walks alone through those cold and lonely streets, he realizes that almost all the families are watching the television. He thinks people do not act normally because they are confined to their houses and are controlled through a viewing screen.
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ResponderBorrarHow is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarWell, I think that is very similar since more people depend on the technology and it is a trouble nowdays, because people don't take advantage about our nature and things like that, over time the customs are losing, some kids prefer a cellphone, computer, etc... we must to understand how to use the technology, I hope that we know how to use the technology and that we educate our children about how to use it, i guess that the author thinks that our world was changing and he wanted give a good message about how people is influenced for simple things and they don't see the beautiful things around them
my dear friend Alfre I agree with you, now kids are born with a kind of chip in their brain knowing everything about technology and as you said we must educate our future child the best way of how to use it correctly..
BorrarQuestion #1
ResponderBorrarHow is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053.
In my opinion I think the world of 2017 to the world of Leonardo is little similar because as we know nobody care about spent time with friends face to face or go outside to talk with our neighbors like it was years ago for example in my chilhood I remember that children used to go outside to play some games with friends in we used to play a lot.Also our mothers called us to go in to our home because was so late and we have to go to the bed and we didn't want to do it.But now it changed because children just want to be with their cellphone and watching tv.They never play games outside like us.They just care social media.And it exactly happened in this story.
Question #2 What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian".
I firmily believe that he wanted to show us that we have to make reflection about what we are doing because we are losing our communication our social interaction.Therefore we have to pay attention there are things more important than be in front of the tv or the cellphone like for example work out,spent time with the family or friends and walking as Leonard.Because this is the moment to change it.If we don't want to have a foolish generation in the future.
#2. Well Yess, I agree with you in this case, because we need to change that way to think because sometimes we don't pay attention that real things that are passing in front of us, like real love, communication,time, but it is our fault and not to the technology, technology is only one device and we choose how to use it in our life and how much important give it.
Borrar2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian.
ResponderBorrarWell,I guess that the author tries to transmite or make us think how the technology will continue to cause a great impact in our society, as people can lose the simple things like going for a walk, taking a breath, having conversations with other people, etc. Since people will spend their times sit in their armchairs watch the T.V or using the cellphones, also few people are those who will continue with some customs like him, to finally people should think about whether we want to live trapped in technology and that our children live their childhood with a cellar, computer etc or enjoy the things that are outside as nature and that our children enjoy their childhood as it should be, later on, children will learn about technology but you have to let them enjoy the things that are on the outside.
#1
ResponderBorrarHe was right when he thought the future would be “caught by technology” because it’s the reality nowadays and we are still missing many years to be in 2053. He tells us a story of a man who thinks different in a desolated place where no one ever goes outside, where all the houses were dark with occasional lights (from the TV, tablets and cellphones) and he was taken to the Psychiatric Center for research on Regressive Tendencies, just because he thinks and is a different person. I believe that this is the way we live now, nobody talks to another even if we have the person near of us, we tend to send a WhatsApp text to tell him or her something, we are forgetting the necessity of sharing with our family and friends “face to face”. If you see an entire room with unoccupied people, you will see everyone with a cellphone or a tablet in their hands like “zombies”. In the past, when I was a child, all the kids played outside together, we liked to share with our neighbors in the afternoons after school, and rarely we watched TV. Nowadays, you’ll rarely see kids playing outside, without tablets, without TV, neither teenagers or adults without social networks, Netflix and internet.
#2
I believe that the author wants us to think or reflect about the excessive use of technology, cellphones, tablets, computers, TV… As I said in the last answer, now we don’t spend our free time with the people we love, we don’t share our anecdotes of the day, what happened to us, our feelings. I dare say that today some people do not even know each other well although they live together. Some people to waste their time knowing someone else’s life in TV shows or YouTube videos, without caring about their family’s situations; some people lose their jobs and forget about their responsibilities. We should stop and meditate what is going to happen if we continue doing the same.
#1 totally agree with you Estef, because it is true,sometimes we forget to talk face to face,but it is because we find out easier talk by WhatsApp or another social networking than in real way, also we prefer to be like zombies than spend time together.
BorrarAbout your question number number one is true Estef, for me he really wanted to make awareness about the world with technology and that was going to change us and change our future. Now, I can't imagine my life without my cellphone or without the computer (that's so useful in daily life) and why? This new generations grew up with technology! Is very essencial in our life, I don´t know how is the life without electricity or without text messages haha, our life is spinning every day in technology and we have all the power to let it the control of our lives or not. We have to be very responsable and at the same time greteful because we have it. Try to focus more in your family and in your work, college than in unnecessary things without sense.
Borrar#1 How is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarI think that the world of 2017 and the 2053 are really similar like for example nowadays the most import thinks are cellphones, computers, smart TV and others, of course I am not going to say that does thinks are not useful because actually they made our life a little bit easier but, at the same time we live all the little details like going for a walk at night or the afternoon or going for dinner “WITHOUT CELLPHONES”, we are forgetting all does special things because of the technology, nonetheless something that I think it won’t be alike is that in the story there was no violence I think that it could be the other way around probably more crimes, violence etc.
2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."
I could say that the author wants to give us a kind of advance of how life could be in a couple of years and in this way, try to make us analyze the situation that we are going to be involve in, like no communication no sharing and even no love for our own self’s. This is a message for all the people that have the opportunity to read this short story and this tries to make us reflect before it’s too late.
Question #1
ResponderBorrarIn my personal opinion, I consider different in this moment the world in 2053 and 2017, but it’s becoming in something like the Leonard World. Since some people prefer to stay at home doing other activities instead of going and share outside with friends; furthermore, I know that the technology is catching us because most of the population are using electronic devices all day. Moreover, nowadays you can see that children don’t play outside as in our childhood that they prefer to stay at home with their cellphones. Besides, I believe that the government is controlling us not so much in this country, but in United States there are thousands of cameras watching to the people all day, and this show us the example of the pedestrian, in which there weren’t policemen, just the use of the technology.
Question #2
I think that the author wants that we realized how is going to be the life in the future and what is happening in the present, since nowadays we prefer to stay at home watching TV instead of going outside and walking; also, we should learn that technology is becoming us in people apart for the nature. I don´t know how is possible that the pedestrian was arrested for being outside since nobody was in the streets and he was the unique person without the television, this text show us in this part that we don’t have to be moored to the technology and the things that the television sell us.
About your answer #1 Jose I agree with you.
Borrarwe are manipulated by technology with the mere fact of spending hours and hours surfing the internet and since we have become zombies, I think we will continue like this because technology is going more and more and humanities is so stubborn that it will not change, we are like robots doing what technology asks us to do and that is the problem that we cling to fashion and that becomes a social chain.
I agree with you about #1.
BorrarYou're completely right, even though those are different times, we are living our lives the same way, spending our life at home all day long.
All the story is interesting because he narrated his life and I would say it is real for us, because if you see Costa Rican houses nowadays, nobody is outside after 6pm.
#2
ResponderBorrarThe author wants that we talk more face to face and forget the cellphones and everything about technology, and for that reasons he didn't sell more books because people are watching TV, and also they have very little social interaction, and everything is automated, like the police car, it didn't need a driver or speaker to do that action, and we know that the technology has come to dominate the world. We can't allow technology to control us in the way we lose face to face communication. He wants to show us the spend time together talking are the best gift that speaking through the whatever device; as a result, we are losing some ideologies about our culture, like talk with our real humans not with robotic devices.
#4
Well, I think some of that problems are the people are only inside of their houses, watching TV, and playing video games, the technology can be substituted people, like patrol, maybe in the future people won't have job, because the work will be done by robots and people will be unemployed; in addition to, television is one of the most danger device because it's become in zombies like the cellphone too. Technology is one of the best tool in our life but we need to know how to use it, we need to read books, play with real people not with machines. We need to remember that people have feelings and the devices not.
About number 4 Stacy, yeah, you're right. In other words the author is invitate us to share each other as a real human beings, and not texting, orplaying video games or using our phone, not of that way, he wanted to share, to talk, to walk, to breath pure air and give thanks to God for our life. Obviously, the technology is very very useful nowdays, but we must know how to use it correctly.
BorrarAbout question #2
BorrarWell, I share your opinion about the use of the technology, nowadays we see in our lives that we prefer watch TV or use the social networks instead of reading a book, and with this we lose the interaction with people around us; besides you said something that caught my eye about that we are losing our culture for speaking with robots and not humans.
I liked your answer Stacy about question #4 and I agree with that, I think at the beginning of this problem was television and now the cell phones that have made us zombies, spend hours and hours on the cell phone or computers have made us vague people and that makes lose interest for what is really important, stop reading for being on the cell phone will not help us.
BorrarAbout #4.
BorrarI like your opinion about this question, because maybe in a future we'll see people losing their jobs and instead, robots and artificial life doing what we used to do.
-About question number 2:
ResponderBorrarHere we have an interesting writer, a writer of the year 1951. For me, He wants to share with society in general, that we have to appreciate our way of see the things, and the life in generl in that time. As I said before, the story was written in 1951, nowdays in 2017 our reality has changed too much. So, I really think that the author wanted to share that with the readers, to valorate, to cherish and how the society and people were to change. I feel very proud of the advances of technology such as medicine, robotics, that we have in these days, but I really miss at the same time, the time like we used to appreciate more a letter than a WhatsApp text, or a rose than a anything else, a good talk with a friend or someone important than anything else. What I want to say is that our world has changed so much, but we have the change and chance in our hands if continues changing quickly or not. We have to appreciate the little things like the people in the past used to do.
About question number 1:
Honestly, I think they're similar at the same time and not at all. The author wanted to share how the people use to change while the time passing by our eyes. People like to re-create by themselves. In that time, people use to dance more, to live more and have a really good conditions of health than senior citizens of today, people liked to sing, to go out, people used to communicate each other through the letters, telegrams or simply by messages with the neighbors. Currently, we have the famous social networks like WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Instagram and you can communicate very easy. So, the author was saying that the world was going to change? Yes, he was saying. He wanted for me,that us as a new generations appreciate the little things of like such as walk,talk, dance and to have a prospective about life.
Question #1
ResponderBorrarCompared to these two worlds I believe that now in 2017 people have their jobs their studies which makes it possible to socialize, interact between people, but if there is something that has changed people little by little, technology as it is in the case of cell phones it has made us alone in the world because thanks to that, thanks to spending hours on the internet we forget the people we have around us, we do not talk, we do not communicate and that is why we often feel alone but it is enough
with leaving the cell phone and going out to enjoy what is outside our homes,
enjoy nature for example, in 2053 in Leonard's world and technology is so much that it was advanced that it seems that people no longer exist or work so much technology that neither let them leave their homes, I feel that the similarity between these two worlds is that 2017 is the beginning of that bad change that little by little technology is doing and consuming us and the world of Leonard is an example that makes us see what our future would be like in this horrific reality.
Question #4
I firmly believe that the social trends that the author sees is technology, the current social networks have taken us away from reality
of the world makes us be in a world of fantasies and does not let us see the problem that
It causes us as people. I want to add that in the future the technology will be greater than possibly the people would not work as it is in Leonard's case when the police asked him if he worked and he said that he was a writer but that he no longer had work which would be somewhat unfavorable for the humanity.
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ResponderBorrar1. How is the world of 2017 similar to the world of Leonard Mead in 2053?
ResponderBorrarI think Ray Bradbury predicted the future well with this short story. Although we still don't have police cars that drive through the streets without a driver inside, we are living in a world where technology is beginning to dominate us. Not only because we spend hours in front of the television, but because things like social networks and video games that trap us and don't let us enjoy the outdoors as we used to do. Leonard's world in 2053 is not very far from ours right now.
A clear example of this is that it is becoming more common to see children playing with an electronic device inside the house than watching them play outside in the yard with their friends.
2. What does the author want you to think/feel regarding the text "The Pedestrian."
A part of this story calls me too much attention and that's when the police car asks Leonard about his profession and he replies saying that he is a writer and followed by that the police car interpreted his response as "Unemployed"
This seems to me an important detail of the story or of what the author wants us to understand. It is as if the habit of reading for that year no longer exists; therefore, the writers no longer have a job. All people are focused on easy entertainment such as television and leave books aside.
The author wants us to reflect on the use that we started to give to technology and not to forget the importance of reading and sharing outside with friends.
Question 1
BorrarI like your comment, is like a preview of what will be our future with technology, and it is right that we often see that children enjoy more playing games on a computer on a tablet and even at an early age they have full access to use a smartphone with their parents’ permission, so since they are kid’s technology is more interest for them than play with their friends outside.
Question #2
I liked this part also, when he says he worked as a writer and that made me think about that if the world have been changed by technology it means that most of the jobs that people used to have were replaced and taken by technology, so it is clear that people do not used to read newspaper if they have all the information right in their smartphones.
Hello Fer!
BorrarRegarding your answer to question #2, I think it's a good observation what you did, because I had not analyzed it in that way. It is really interesting what you say because it's true and you are right, although I'm not a fan of reading and books I share your opinion and I think it's a very beautiful habit and the people who have it are happy. I feel it's really sad that it's lost but actually it is very likely to happen, and it is in our hands to avoid it.
Hi fer :) Talking about your first answer I have to tell you that I totally agree with you. Is truth that kids prefer to spend their time watching tv, playing video games or all those things, however if we compare nowadays with the past we can see that children are not as happy as in the past. We feel kind of sad because we know that it´s getting worse, and it´s something that we have to improve.
BorrarQuestion #1
ResponderBorrarI would say that, the world of Leonard Mead in 2053 compared to ours now, for me, it is very similar in terms of technology, because in my opinion there are many people that prefer to spend their time on playing games on a computer, watching videos all day instead of having a real conversation with someone that is not just by phone, so they are consumed by technology, they don’t socialize with others and that, sometimes made people to feel alone and prefer to stay in that way, they don’t focus or don’t think that having friends is a good deal, to have someone you can count on, and in the case of that world of 2053 I think that it is the same, technology predominates even more because, he has walked every night for many years maybe because he lost the interest of making friends and he has found refuge in loneliness of those nights he has traveled around those lonely streets.
Question #2
For me it would be like, if he wanted that we as readers take in count how will be our lives in a not very distant future dominates by technology, so in the Pedestrian the author is showing us that not many people could manage the technology not many except one, that lonely man who walks miles away just to appreciate the darkness of the night on the city, someone that prefers to do other things instead of being in front of a computer, a television. It is true that “technology brings you closer to people who are far away and it takes you away from people who are close” we can do since now make a good chose, paying more attention to people who are around us and prevent technology from consuming our time and becoming more important than our friends and family.
Question # 2.
ResponderBorrarI’d rather saying that this author had a huge imagination, and the most amazing fact is that the was from almost seventy years ago in history, so he could not even know anything about future, but he did. Since he was a writer, he was able to imagine and wonder about the future life, and during the short story I found out that he did all his effort to think about life in a hundred years after.
Question # 4.
As I said before, the author’s mind was wide open that he narrated how life would be different, because maybe in those days people were accustomed to read, for example. I guess that not all of them used to do it, so that’s why he imagined that in a future there would be different ways to live, not by reading, but maybe by staying at home all day long doing nothing. It was kind of impossible for him to believe there would exist many artefacts such us cellphones and computers, but I sincerely think that’s what the author tried to express about the humanity, that other things would take the place of books and good moments in family, and actually this is how it is right now, people having breakfast, lunch, dinner but in a miserable way, because even though you might be surrounded by others, your mind is completely alone with social media and much more.
Hello Kevin, I think we thought the same about question #2. I find it curious that someone from that time managed to predict characteristics of what is the future or the time in which we live. With this short story it is clear that he had a great imagination and made a dystopia of the future.
BorrarHello there Kevin.
BorrarI share your opinion on question #4, as you say, what the author tells us is a problem that unfortunately is already present today, the way we used to communicate and good times in family are being seriously affected for the use of the different electronic devices that we have today and they will not disappear soon. It's really sad.
Question #2.
ResponderBorrarI think what the author is trying to convey is that we have to realize everything that is changing in the world; in people, and in the way we communicate, based on the way we currently live, it is more than likely that everything will be very different in the future, and the social life of people will change drastically, and consequently it is possible that loneliness invades us and leads us into emptiness.
Question #4.
Regarding this, I think the author wants to imply that in the future, the way we communicate and socialize will be completely different, I guess he is basing on everything we now have and how communication among human beings has diminished in the present due to technology, and it is possible that in the future we speak only with machines, I mean, communication with other people will be null.
Hi Alexa about your 4 question. I agree with you, the author is trying to tell us that the future will be very different from the reality we have now, everything is changing very fast, the technology improves a lot, so people are changing too. I also believe that we could lose the way we communicate nowadays as you said.
BorrarQuestion #1
ResponderBorrarsomething that really caught my eye was that in the story he was weird just because he liked to walk and see the nature. In my humble opinion it´s something that we don’t usually do because the world changed a lot. Moreover, in the story Leonard was used to walking for hours, and he used to return at midnight. We know that nowadays we can’t do that because is very dangerous. I believe that this story is very different from our reality, but it has something similar, and it´s that technology has changed many things, for example kids prefer to watch tv instead of playing in the yard.
Question #4
What I think is that the author wants to tell us that the technology was gonna change the way people think, believe and mostly the way people act because sometimes people prefer to use the cellphone instead of talking face to face. I consider that Leonard Mead represents that person who doesn’t want to do what most people do; as a result, the society tries to persuade us that he is weird just ‘cause he is not like all of them. In my point of view the author wants to show us that technology could be a big problem, but we have the power to decide if it becomes a big problem or not.
Hi. About question #4.
BorrarLet me tell you that I share your point of view, and I consider that Mr. Leonard Mead is like the kind of person who lives in the past, and wants to be differents to the others because as you said nowadays people prefer to use technology instead of sharing with others, and that is something that happens even with kids because I remember when I was in the school, I played with my classmates, but if we see how children behave we're going to see them using their cellphones instead of playing hide and seek (for example)or whatever other games, but the point is that the society has changed a lot in few years, and that it's changing faster maybe very faster, and that causes some problems which there weren't before.
Question #1.
ResponderBorrarI think that the world in 2017 is not so similar to the world in 2053, but we as human are in the road to be in that way due to the people are connected and using their computers, cellphones instead of being sharing with friends and the family like it was some years ago.
Question #4.
I think that the author thought that some problems about society could be the lack of communication among the people, and that is what he wanted to share with the readers, other problem is about how everything changes because it says at the end of the story that his house is the only one that has a yellow light, so for me it made me think how old people see the world, and that probable they compare their old world with how we live now. That could be a reason abput why Mr.Leonard Mead looks like he feels strange.