Loneliness is something we experience often in society. The loneliness often turns into sadness. When we become so lonely, we long for company. Like Ray Bradbury the way he wrote his short story. He shows how lonely the character was. How he was roaming around in the quiet dark street. Only himself on the streets.
The neighborhood, Mr. Leonard is in has dark quiet streets and roaming around at night by himself. He also had Mr. Leonard speak to the houses he passed by in the dark. Even though he knew it would not respond back. This made me really think about how the author must have felt. Alone in the world, he was able to come up with a way, this character acted. His feelings showed through his character.
His character was a writer but was unemployed because he has not published any new books. Mr. Leonard was an unmarried man. He enjoyed going for a walk in the night. Ray Bradbury wrote how alone the character is, “he was alone in this world of 2053 A.D., or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.”
Mr. Leonard always walks in the night, because of this he had an encounter with a police officer. The police started to question him. He asked what he was doing in the middle of night all by himself. He also asked if he walked every day at night. Mr. Leonard told him, he did, and he came out for fresh air. The officer became suspicious of him. The officer started to ask him whether he was married. Mr. Leonard said, “No.” The police didn’t say anything for a moment. He opened the door for the police car and told him to get inside. Mr. Leonard started to tell him that he didn’t do anything wrong. The police told him that if he had a wife. She would have been able to provide an alibi. So, he quietly got into the car. The officer is planning to take him to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies. Since he walks in the night every day. They drive off into the dark quiet street.
Bradbury really showed us how the character suffered because he was all alone. He didn’t have a wife to be there to provide him with an alibi. The way he was also judged by the police because he was roaming by himself in the night. The way he worded each word made me think that he might have gone through what Mr Leonard went through. Or someone he knew. This made me really think about all the people who are out there by themselves. All suffering just like Mr. Leonard.
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