全英行人道读后感——ThePedestrianbookreview.docxVIP

The Pedestrian is a science story happened in 2052. It talks about Mr. Leonard Mead, who always walks out for hours at night, is arrested by a robot policeman suddenly with an unreasonable accusation: disturb the society stability. From the story, the writer delivers a warning that technological development cannot be placed above humanity. Humanity is the most important element in our society, the society will become purgatory if technology places humanity. Here are three examples in the story. The first example is the description of surroundings and people in the story, he shows us a non-humanity environment. During Mr. Leonard walking, he describes the city is a misty silence and the earth he stands on is a buckling concrete which means no one use it anymore, both two imply there is no vigor in the city at night. He also sees the night walking as walk through a graveyard, the street at night is only dry river beds. Besides, he takes the people in house like dead people sitting in the tomb-like houses. At the end of story, writer uses three “empty” as parallelism to emphasize the situation of society —— a cold, empty and soul-less society. The second example shown in the conversation between the robotic police and Mr. Leonard. When the police first show up, car’s light is a beam of fierce cone. When the city’s only one police speak to Mr. Leonard, its voice is metallic and without any motion. When Mr. Leonard answers police’s question that why he walks outside at night, the police even cannot understand the meaning of walking for air and walking to see. What’s more, the robotic police even want to sent Mr. Leonard to Psychological Center just because he walks out at night. When Mr. Leonard is put into the car, writer uses lots of adjectives to describe the terrible situation in the car, he describes the cars as a little black jail with bars, it smells like as steel and harsh bleach. This ridiculous conversation and strange car can show the humanity has been p