The technology is becoming more and more popular; we are forced to face it every day. Ray Bradbury has noticed this trend that people are becoming more and more dependent on technology; after all, we use television, computers, and even cars every day. In The Pedestrian Ray Bradbury used images of insects in The Pedestrian that suggest that as more people use technology, it will trap and destroy us. Bradbury writes "During the day there was a thunderous rush of cars, petrol stations open, a great rustling of insects and an incessant jostling for position as the beetles, a faint incense dripping from their exhausts, flew by homeward to distant directions." In this excerpt Bradbury compared the rusting of automobiles to that of rustling insects. Whipping means to act or move with energy or speed and also means to search for food. There are many cars in this future and one insect of which there are many, which does many routine jobs and consumes a lot of energy would be the ant. They are trapped in short, busy lives and are considered insignificant; they are essentially zombies, trapped and destroyed by the lifestyle they are forced to accept. This can be compared to Leonard Mead, he doesn't want to be a zombie like the others, he is like a lonely red ant in a black anthill and just like the red ant he doesn't fit in, so he is an outcast. . Leonard Mead may not have been considered insane in the society of the future, but he may have been considered a threat. He may have been killed to protect the fact that someone likes to impose this thing to keep everyone stupid, just as the red ant in the black ant nest would have been killed for violating the black ant turf. This case is as if he found himself… in the middle of the paper… a society surrounding him and forced to conform to what everyone else considered a normal life and was destroyed by technology. Bradbury writes "The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, with a needle stuck in his chest." In this sentence Ray Bradbury compared the light that Leonard Mead encountered to a pin holding a specimen in a museum. Leonard Mead is blocked by the police like a laboratory sample is blocked by a metal pin. He is trapped by this light and at this point he realizes what the police have done, he realizes that he has been trapped. Ray Bradbury's use of insect imagery demonstrated that through technology we will ultimately be trapped and destroyed. Only by realizing what we love in this moment in our lives, like nature, can we stop being trapped by technology and have a richer life for ourselves and those to come...