He enjoyed his loneliness during his so called journeys. One evening he was stopped by police car, and was asked about the reason for such walk. He was asked to get in the police car, where there were no people at all. He didn’t know about the place, where they were going, but it turned out to be a psychiatric hospital. They rolled by Mr. Mead’s house and that road led nowhere.
Because of this certain people stay away during the dark hours such as the members of The Municipal Club because they are afraid and they think it is just waiting to explode (Making Social Lives On City Road, 2009, Scene 5), despite assurances from the Police that City Road is not a bad area and as long as you apply common sense you could walk the streets 24 hours a day (Making Social Lives On City Road, 2009, Scene 6). When there is crime is usually centered around people fighting in takeaways, Despite the fact that crime is low, older people have the preconception that the this is a place to avoid and therefore this essentially means that the street is only really accessible to the students and drinkers who are partaking in the activities which City Road has to offer in the evening. The evening also offers another inequality, with certain people being allowed entry to certain venues at the say so of people who are there to essentially make a decision on social order, the bouncers choose if they think people are going to cause trouble or even dampen the image of a particular establishment. An example of this would be a homeless man who would probably be
In “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, the author uses original, creative and vivid imagery to show that being original, productive and creative can open up to more vivid and richer experiences, like walking and exploring new places rather than conforming to other people and not doing anything productive at all. The author also uses simple but powerful diction to foreshadow the sad ending of conforming to the law as stated by the police car rather than ignoring the police car, which can happen simply because of conforming to other people or things. This story is about a man arrested in one night for walking along the streets and not staying home like other people. The creative and vivid imagery that the author adds into this story gives a link between the loneliness of the streets and being the only one and original. Being original can be scary and can tempt you into conforming to something else, but one can become dull and boring from being forced by the society to conform to the rest of the people.
Through the passage not only the narrator but also the characters, mainly Candide, give a clear notion of how will they end their lives. As it is expressed in this last chapter, the characters avoid the nature of society and seclude themselves into a more quiet life, away from trouble; as well as finding themselves through work and feeling probably more useful than ever before. One of the main characteristics of Voltaire when writing is that he uses his stories to convey his own ideas or opinions. Voltaire himself secluded into a small house and stopped his active voice in French society, which makes obvious how he put his own perspective of life into this story. As a philosopher he probably questioned himself if it would be the best thing to do to live this type of life, exposing this doubt in his mind through one character, as we can see the extract spoken by the old woman: ‘boredom was so extreme that one day the old woman ventured to remark: ‘I should like to know which is worse: to be raped a hundred times by negro pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgars, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fé, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley – in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered – or simply to sit here and do nothing?’ – ‘That is a hard question,’ said
"The Pedestrian" is a short story by Ray Bradbury, an author known for deeply philosophical and poetic prose that is often set in a time of space travel. Occurring in the year 2053, "The Pedestrian" tells the story of Leonard Mead, a man who walks alone at night, seemingly for the pure joy of it. This appears to upset the neighbors, who, when they are not criticizing the habits of others, are thoroughly engrossed in their televisions.In 2053, people do not walk outside -- even the sidewalks are succumbing to the endless growth of grass. At some point during his walk, Leonard Mead is accosted by the one remaining police car in the city of three million (there is apparently no need for a police force when no one goes outside and they are instead
If one window is broken out of an abandoned house, and no one says anything or reports it then others will be broken out to just the simple fact because no did anything about it. No one took action, which shows or gives criminals the idea that no cares enough to address the problem. In the mid-l970s The State of New Jersey announced a “Safe and Clean Neighborhoods Program,” designed to improve the quality of community life in twenty-eight cities. As part of that program, the state provided money to help cities take police officers out of their patrol cars and assign them to walking beats. The governor and other state officials were enthusiastic about using foot patrol as a way of cutting crime, but many police chiefs were skeptical.
The unchanging rhythm indicates that his emotions don’t change. The poem is split into 2 parts, but is still contained within one stanza because it revolves around one single metaphor, rain. The poet’s state of mind is revealed in the opening line, while creating an atmosphere of sorrow, depression and anxiety, “Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain.” The poet’s use of ‘midnight’ reflects his state of mind, where light is used to symbolise hope. It thus signifies complete, utter darkness which entails no trace of light and thus no hope for the poet’s survival at all as he is completely certain he will die. The word ‘Nothing’ is another metaphor used as a means of showing that he has no future, his life is to come to an end and he feels devoid of emotions, resigned to his fate.
This view isn’t just shared by the older generation as we also see the young ladies in the pool hall saying “its dead rough”, (Making Social Lives on City Road, Scene 8). This view is not shared however by the local policeman PC Bob Keohane “You can walk this area 24 hours and day and as long as you apply common sense, you know, you won’t become a victim of crime” , (Making Social Lives on City Road, Scene 6). In this scenario the losers are those who feel they can’t visit the road of a night which may lead to social inequalities, as they are missing out on what the road has to offer of a
In order to draw attention to Icarus, William states, "Unsignificantly/ off the coast /there was/ a splash quite unnoticed". Similarly, Auden states, describing the way "everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster". They both point to the fact that in the painting Icarus is drowning and people don't care to help or even look. These people practice ignorance, confirming the common saying that "ignorance is bliss". This does not necessarily mean that the bystanders are better off not being bothered, but that they don’t even seem to be bothered at all by a man drowning.
As the narrator goes on it addressed the image of the men gathering, and as they talk there is no laughter, as if something looms over them. Then we have the work by Robert Frost and his poem “Out, Out-“, thought the literary format is different the use of irony is still present. Right from the opening line we are greeted with a sense of dread when Frost personifies the buzz saw as something menacing and dangerous, “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard” (K&M, 844). Then the poem goes on to describe an almost picturesque setting with the mountains in the distance and the setting sun behind them. Everything seems idealistic, that is until the boy cut his hand off with the buzz saw, having been distracted by the simple prospect of supper, his life ends.