Critical Essay On The Pedestri

Part I of Essay
Fifty-three years from now a writer is taken to a psychiatric centre for help because he was walking along the streets. In this essay I will be considering the image of the future created in this short story by analysing the plot, setting, character and theme. This short s ....

Part II of Essay
.... will be taken home but when he is in the car and the doors locked shut he asks where he is being taken, the car he replies ‘to the psychiatric centre for research on regressive tendencies’. Leonard Mead is not a ‘normal’ person in the way that his neighbours are, because all they do is sit all night with their lazy eyes glued to the television. Leonard is a writer in a non-reading society. People never read books, all they do is watch television and that is probably the reason why he has not met anybody on the street ....