Mead is in many ways Bradbury’s only true representation of humanity left in the year 2053 A.D., through describing him as have a “shadow of a hawk” (26), which relates him to a wild free spirited bird. Mead is also seen as humanity because he is associated with light, which is symbolic for soul, Meads house beams “loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness” (29). While the loss of humanity is displayed in the “lone” “metallic voice” that the robotic cop car has and in the descriptions of the towns’ people being “gray phantoms” that live in “tomblike buildings” in a “graveyard” of a town showing how the life of the town dies with the
Mead is in many ways Bradbury’s only true representation of humanity left in the year 2053 A.D., through describing him as have a “shadow of a hawk” (26), which relates him to a wild free spirited bird. Mead is also seen as humanity because he is associated with light, which is symbolic for soul, Meads house beams “loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness” (29). While the loss of humanity is displayed in the “lone” “metallic voice” that the robotic cop car has and in the descriptions of the towns’ people being “gray phantoms” that live in “tomblike buildings” in a “graveyard” of a town showing how the life of the town dies with the