The Pedestrian And Us

Did you know that thinking allows human to make sense or, interpret, represent or model the world they experience, and to make predictions about the world.Well in the two stories “Us and Them” and “The Pedestrian,” the character’s thoughts and actions reveal aspects of his personality. In “Us and Them” the author writes the story based on his own experience during his childhood. It talks about how everybody has a T.V besides that one family who is very behind. Next in “The Pedestrian” it talks about a guy named Mead and he is a person who is just like Mr. Tomkey from “Us and Then” who doesn’t believe in television and doesn’t watches it. In both stories, the character’s actions reveal and express its personality.

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Pedestrian” the main character is a guy named Leonard Mead, he was a person who didn’t believe in television, he would walk around the neighborhood everyday and describe the loneliness in the streets. In the story it states “ He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four direction, deciding which way to go,but it really made no difference;he was alone in pattern of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.” This quotes shows how Mr.Mead is walking in the empty lonely streets. He is alone and there is no other people near him because the world is pretty much “dead”.His actions shows that he is a very disbelieving and discontented person. Being that, Mr.Mead is still a person who likes the old ways and doesn’t like to use the new ways. With regard of the story, it states that “Sometimes he would walk for hours and return only at midnight to his house. And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark shadows, and it was not equal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.”This quote shows how Mr.Mead enjoys walking in the streets even though it looks like a graveyard to him. He would not let the looks of these cold empty houses change the way he thinks. He is very independent and highly self esteem person. He would not let the fact that everybody is watching T.V in their house and never leaving it, change the fact that he would do the same thing.

Humans can literally think of anything, what they express can let others predict what their actions would be like. The two stories “ Us and Them” and “The Pedestrian” both shows the fact that actions can reveal a character’s personality and prove to others that it is very true. Some people may be so dependent on others that they feel that their lives are out of their control. They may feel lost, confused, manipulated, degraded, and needy. They may feel as though an important ingredient is missing from their lives but really not even know what's missing. Characters in the two stories may feel the same way but they already chosen their life and held on to it.