LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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The entire city is old and falling apart
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There was a recent earthquake that damaged much of the walkways
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No one uses the sidewalks much and they are therefore untended
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What do phrases such as “grassy seams", “Buckling concrete walk", and “lumpy walk” imply? No one uses the sidewalks much and they are therefore untended.
Detailed explanation-2: -And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.
Detailed explanation-3: -In “The Pedestrian, ” Ray Bradbury has chosen to make a statement on the effects of these improvements. Through characterization and imagery, he shows that if mankind advances to the point where society loses its humanity, then mankind may as well cease to exist.
Detailed explanation-4: -Leonard Mead’s innocent hobby of taking late night walks instead of watching television is condemned by the police force as a “Regressive Tendency”, and sends him to a psychiatric center to be studied for such behavior, (194).