![]() This source could be the government or an organisation such as the government that are in control of humanity. The car is being controlled from another source. When did you realise that there was no-one driving the police-car? Why is it that the identity of the voice in the car is kept anonymous? Who do you think is actually 'controlling' the car? This could mean that books have stop being published due to the society changing and rules being placed, with technology being so informed with information books have become prehistoric. Writing is now counted as a hobby and is no longer accepted in society as a profession. It is stating that in the future authors have become a thing of the past. What does this particular utterance reveal about the society in which the story is set? The voice from the police-car notes: "No profession" in response to the pedestrian's statement that he is a writer. Totalitarian dictatorship has been strongly enforced onto a world that has been transformed into a dystopia. ![]() Society has accepted the reality in which they have been presented with. Bradbury uses descriptive words to express what he means. Houses at night are pitch black, without any source of humanity on the streets. Life in the future has become a dark place where people live in privacy. How would you describe life in this city in the year 2053? Consider the narrative carefully and identify specific examples of Bradbury's use of language and stylistic features that have enabled you to reach your conclusion. The parallel between gravestones and the houses. There is no source of life, no source of humanity. The city that Mead lives in is a described as a graveyard-type environment. ![]() An individual looking for change.īradbury describes Mead's walk as being ".not unequal to walking through a graveyard." In what ways is the city like a graveyard? Evidence in the story is found in the last few sentences when the police car drives past his ‘brightly lit’ house. What does Mead's "brightly lit" house tell us about him? What evidence in the story as a whole supports this view?ĭespite the world that Mr Mead lives in, his brightly lit house symbolises that he is a different man that doesn’t want to change to comprehend to the world around him. A nation of oppression, communism and despair. The first few sentences opened up the story, describing the world around him as a blank. The starting few paragraphs say that the atmosphere is a dark, cold, blistering world in which he is alone and quiet. How would you describe the atmosphere established in the opening paragraphs of the story? ![]()
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