Generation Z, Book One: The Outbreak

Zombies aren’t supposed to exist. But what if they do, and we interact with them every day? Chuck Klosterman’s essay, “My Zombie, Myself”, compares everyday life to the task of killing zombies. Through elaborate metaphors, quotes from zombie experts, and a strong call to action, he successfully appeals to pathos, ethos and logos to convince his readers. Klosterman argues that even though modern life is monotonous, it is possible to escape the monotony.

From video games like Fortnite, to social media apps like Instagram, to search engines like Google, modern day technology has become readily accessible to people of all ages. By relying on technology every day for the smallest of reasons, people have become brain dead and unable to think for themselves. In response to this growth of technology, Chuck Klosterman in My Zombie, Myself attempts to convince his audience that to fight against the wave of technology, just how one would fight against a wave of zombies. Klosterman claims that the reason why zombies are attracting so much attention is because of how relatable they are to modern day lives, where killing hordes of zombies is similar to deleting hundreds of emails or following social media

“Zombies are like the Internet and the media and every conversation we don’t want to have. All of it comes at us endlessly (and thoughtlessly), and – if we surrender – we will be overtaken and

In 1968, in a cemetery about 30 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh, a movie that would change cinematic history forever was being created. George Romero’s classic film Night of the Living Dead, was being filmed. Up until 1968, the word “zombie” had a completely different meaning than it does today. George A. Romero created the horror movie antagonist that many audiences know and fear. The Pre-Romero zombie has many notable differences from the modern zombie. Most notably, it is alive and simply under a voodoo curse. These zombies did not crave flesh or brains, and there were no large-scale outbreaks. Night of the Living Dead changed this all, and paved the way for the zombie to evolve into what it is today.

Synergy Theater presents “Z is for... Zombie! An Improvised Zombie Apocalypse” at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek October 19-22, 2017.

Zombies have had quite the resurgence within the last decade culturally. Before we got Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, or the amc show, The Walking Dead, Zombies had simply faded into the background of horror and pop culture. Since George A. Romero’s film Night of the Living Dead, Zombies had really seemed like a one trick pony. They were depicted as slow moving creatures, preying down upon harmless naive teenagers. But after the resurgence of the zombie from films and shows in the early 2000’s, zombies are now everywhere and in all different shapes and sizes. Comics, videogames, shows, books and movies are now just a few of the mediums that zombies are used in media today. Well it now finally seems that Zombies have finally seemed to make

“So I think I’m being attacked by zombies and I start screaming ‘Do you wanna make out?’ And I make out with it.” This quote from the hit show Bob’s Burgers is a brilliant representation on just how much the Zombie Apocalypse has evolved, yet still maintains the fear of being mauled by the undead hordes. Today, various form of media and literature have taken the classic sense of a zombie infested world and turned them upside down. Instead of only having insatiable hunger, they can talk, walk, and have problems just like their human counterparts. On the flipside, stories presenting the original zombies still thrive. These two genres are zombies are presented in movies, books, and tv shows. the contrast within the subgroups and is outstanding.

The origin of zombie, also known by “zombi” or “zonbi”, according to Christie (2011), Farghaly (2014) and Platts (2013) has its roots tracing back to Haitian folklore of Vodoun (Voodoo or Vodou) magic (Christie 2011, p. 10; Farghaly 2014, p. 8; Platts 2013, p. 549). It is a product of the supernatural, combined with a vague applied science of pharmacology (Farghaly 2014, p. 9). Here, we shall examine the North American cinematic version of zombie which is vastly different from its Haitian predecessor. From its humble beginning as a subculture confined to cult classic movies, to its eventual branching out to video games and graphic novels. As well as how the contemporary zombie genre served as an embodiment of our paranoia, its entrance to

Sarah Juliet Lauro, an assistant professor of English and claimed “zombie scholar”, supports Kozma’s argument by mentioning how zombie stories gained popularity after the Cold War and World War II due to a distrust in military technology and weaponry (Lauro). By creating weapons proven to bring ruin to communities, technology was seen in a different light during and after the 1900s. Its threatening potential caused humans to view such advancement in a mistrusted and suspicious manner. Thus, it makes sense that the zombie apocalypse craze emerged once these attitudes took shape after the wars of the 1900s. Technology with the potential to end humanity causes individuals to be constantly on edge and apprehensive, slowly creating a wish to end such feelings through a fantasy such as the zombie

Do you remember when all those people told you that it will never happen? Well it’s happening, the dead is walking. As of right now you are probably hearing people in the street screaming he or she bit me. The world is in a panic and disaster is everywhere. The dead is trying to spread this terrible disease by biting everyone in sight. You’re think why? Why is this this happening to me? Why now? Now that you know what’s going on, you are starting to think how you are going to get yourself through this situation. You’re in luck, I am here to help guide you on surviving this horrifying zombie apocalypse. After reading this essay you should have the knowledge and feel confident that you are going to make it through the zombie apocalypse.

So to the rest of society you are that horrid over baring moron dragging the rest us back to the ground. But don’t take it personally, so is everybody. The recent blockbuster World War Z (2013) showed us it takes a mere thirteen seconds to turn into a rabid savage, blissfully unaware of the world, and the nuisance it is being. In the same way the pedestrians going about their business on the day of the apocalypse cannot be blamed for being infected, you, the average Joe cannot be blamed for your ignorance and stupidity. Zombie literature tells us vividly that only those of great character like the comely Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) of World War Z or the gruff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) of the Walking Dead can resist or fight the infection of ignorance.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel which was written by the American author. The author Max Brooks tried to give his book, World War Z, the mixed stories of history and zombie. To those who are interested in sci-fi about zombies, we have known zombies in the different way of what Max Brooks has brought to us. The first-generation of zombies were persons who have been controlled by dark magic. But, to Max Brooks, he changed his zombies into those people who were infected by a virus which can be transferred through biting. World War Z is the Max Brooks second zombie novel, following his first zombie survival manual which called ”The Zombie Survival Guide (2003)”. However, it has a much more serious

More humans will come to one with the zombie way of undead life, as it were, the remaining humans would feel social pressure to conform and eventually adopt the norms and practices of zombies — kind of like towards the end of Shaun of the Dead. In the end, even humans would adopt zombie-constructed perceptions of right and wrong, and when it’s appropriate to grunt in a menacing manner. Constructivism emphasizes the significance of beliefs, values, norms, and identities in constructing social reality and ultimately shaping a state’s behavior. As one scholar compressed the constructivist paradigm, “anarchy is what states make of it” (Wendt 391). Transnational norms, relationships, and identities are shaped over time as states interact with one another; these identities and norms, in turn, mutually construct state behavior. As opposed to realists, who argue that anarchy unavoidably leads to competition for power and conflict, constructivists maintain that the lack of central authority in worldwide politics has no inherent qualities that enact upon states a specific pattern of behavior. Therefore, constructivism opens the door to a wide variety of policy responses to a particular challenge. Applying the constructivist perspective to the fictional zombie apocalypse scenario, Drezner contends that “the existential peril posed by zombies could be the exogenous shock needed to break down

Studying the zombie and zombie apocalypse for the past seven weeks has been an interesting experience. When I signed up for a class about zombies, my parents questioned me and my friends laughed. Before participating in this zombie class I thought the zombie was simply a monster with no meaning. I thought the zombie was a brain dead creature with no motivation in life. Little did I know, the zombie and the post-apocalyptic setting means so much more. The zombie and apocalypse are metaphors for bigger things connected to the world we live in.

Doomsday is defined as the day where the world will come to an end and people will face God on Judgment Day. Many people are fascinated by the notion that Doomsday will eventually happen soon, but there’s always a miscalculation when it comes to predicting as when the world will end. World War II is the most significant period in the twentieth century because technology, civil rights movement in the U.S, and the ability to explore outer space took a huge leap of fascination around the world. The two powerful allies emerged during World War II as to begin a Cold War with each other that defined the twentieth century. The idea that the world will come to an end by a nuclear war based on previous events from World War II that can potentially one day happen again because of historical evidence from the Cold War that wiped out two major cities in Japan, scientific evidence of a secret nuclear weapon written in India’s ancient epics, and the production of radiation smoke that builds up over time can slowly kill humans. Zombies are dead corpse that is revived by a virus. The myth of zombies originated from Haiti in 1626 to 1800s, as an image of inhumanity where slaves were treated ruthlessly. In the Haitian religion, slaves believed that dying was a way for them to return to Guinea, where they are free from torture in the afterlife. Under the ruled by Saint-Domingue in France when African slaves to work in the sugar plantation. Slaves who