THE PEDESTRIAN

TRUST CAN BE DECEIVING

• He trusted that walking alone was safe becausehe had done it for years.
• " in ten years of walking by night or day..."
• He trusted that he was in safe hands with the cop.
• " They passed one house on one street a moment later... That's my house
• ... The car moved down the empty riverbed streets and off away."

SETTING

• Misty evening, November, 2053
• On a street, in a neighborhood.

CHARACTERIZATION

• Leonard Mead: A lonely middle aged man, who enjoys long walks.
• Cop Car: A cop car who is empty and like to kidnap people.

POINT OF VIEW

• 3rd person limited.

IRONY

PLOT

• Leonard likes to go on walks
• After years of never running into anybody he meets a cop car
• The car wants to take him to a center of research for regressive tendencies.
• Leonard doesn't want to at first but agrees at the end.
• Leonard sees his house as he's driven by it.

SUSPENSE

• The author creates suspense by making most of the
• story about Leonard and what he does.
• The author waits a while to actually include conflict.
• Then when there is conflict he makes you wonder what
• the characters will do and how they will respond.

SIMILIE

• "He walked like a man suddenly drunk."
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FLASHBACK

• "Ever since a year ago, 2052, the election year
• the force had been cut down from three cars to one."