Personal Narrative: The Walking Dead

‘’It’s the Zombie Apocalypse!’’ If you recognized the saying, then you really do pay attention to The Walking Dead. If anyone out of the 17.3 million who is interested in this game then this is for you! This paper is going to persuade all video gamers to go out and buy ‘’The Walking Dead Season 2’’ video game based on the reviews that will come from the Telltale Games Critics, Game Radars, and more. The New York Times calls it,’ The Most Excellent Game! ’that’s in stores now to this day. Warning this game is rated M for mature. Based on the video, Telltale Games proved that Clementine’s story is worth to continue throughout the season which will be told later on in the paper. So it has successfully persuaded the video gamers to go out and buy The Walking Dead video game based on the emotions to face throughout the game and the logic of hard, choice making decisions.. Do you have what it takes to survive the apocalypse?

Zombie movies have haunted movie theater screens since the 1930s. Yet, the definition of 'the zombie' has changed since the beginning of the new millennium. While a few decades ago, zombies were described as dead people who escaped their graves and started walking the earth again, new movies have altered that definition and now “[...] include still-living characters infected with an incurable disease that extinguishes their personalities and turns them into bloodthirsty killers” (Kay 1), or “[…] dead people who are still alive, and driven to kill and cannibalize the living” (McAlister 460). Especially these new zombies, still-living, yet infected humans, “[...] fast runners and swift climbers, [who] think nothing of smashing

What I was before I became what I am, I do not care. You really want to know, don't you? All right, I'll tell you a little story. I was human

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.

The Walking Dead is the television series guilty pleasure of many, and fans just can’t get enough of this AMC hit! There is something incredibly enticing about the gory and horrific show, and we have the scoop on all of the inside details! Read through our list to discover everything there is to know about this captivating series. Don’t forget to check back for our coming articles, parts two through five, to see the remaining 34 facts that you didn’t know about The Walking Dead!

Rodney Clapp, writer, editor for Wipf and Stock Publishers and expert in topics such as theology and culture, in the article, “Attack of the Zombies”, argues that many things in life are beginning to resemble zombies. Clapp assumes that the audience also views zombies as lifeless creatures that go around spreading their disease. The author’s purpose is to persuade the audience to believe that many things they see today are starting to resemble zombies. The author writes in a challenging tone for people who question the similarity of zombies to every day life. Clapp supports his argument by comparing and contrasting, and exemplification.

In reading, the articles by Phillip Simpson and Christine Heckman, the routine story of blood and gore is interpreted as a reaction to our interest in the post-apocalyptic world. Simpsons article, “The Zombie Apocalypse is Upon Us!: Homeland Insecurity” was featured in a collection of texts regarding the Walking Dead. Following, Simpson directed the essay for the intended audience to be American citizens who watch or are wanting to learn more about The Walking Dead. Simpsons essay is a factual, persuasion and academic based essay. This is a factual essay because Simpson uses facts based from the show and information from other published texts. Heckmans article, “Roadside ‘Vigil’ for the Dead: Cannibalism Fossil Fuels, and the American Dream” also was featured in the same book of collected essays. The collection

During the atomic age, the zombie was born, as a new monster that resembled Cold War anxieties. One of the most known fears was the fear of the spread of communism in the United States that would "[turn] citizens into mindless hordes." Nowadays, zombies have developed and are not stupid and slow as shown in the first zombie movies, but they are smart and fast today. The perfect killing machines. Zombies can be compared to "terrorist sects and sleeper cells [...]" (66). The zombie walked represents insecurity in a culture, about "who we are, who the enemy is, and whether s/he is us." The zombie walk helps participants to express their feelings about cultural anxieties related to death and warfare. The destructive force of zombies is detectible in modern anxieties over terrorism and worldwide war. Here, zombies walks have a deep meaning. They "act as a means for working through [...] the structural conditions of a new and violence that so

My previous year at North had both ups and downs, and I guess some “uglies”, which included making so many new friends to losing a financial literacy contest that my teammates and I had worked very hard on.

The zombies that George R. Romero showcases in Night of the Living Dead (1968) now dominate the film industry as the prototype for the undead: the mindless corpse that is void of its prior consciousness. And the preferred food source of the undead has become like law for any pop-culture universe about zombies—even undead superheroes will eat people in the comic books from the Marvel Zombies series. As the prototypical zombie thought experiment, the Night of the Living Dead allows the audience to confidently respond to any questions about the undead’s identity, actions, or morality by referring to that void of

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was my junior year of college at Mississippi State University and I was in the middle of another boring lecture. All of sudden we heard a loud bang in the chemistry lab a few halls down. Our teacher ran out to check what it could be while we waited in anticipation. We were not nearly ready for what we saw next. In the midst of our conversations, the entire class began to hear knocking on the door. John Parker, a fellow classmate, proceeded to go open the door and when he did, we all witnessed our very first Zombie as he devoured John in cold blood. Unlike the many unprepared students in my class that day, I was ready. I was aware of the inevitable event that was occurring and exactly who I needed to call. If I was going to survive this apocalypse, I needed a leader, a fighter, a medic, and a genius.

First it was vampires, now it seems as though American culture is obsessed with zombies. Countless movies and television shows have premiered centered around these undead beings, but one seems to be the most prevalent. The Walking Dead is based on the ongoing comic book series written by Robert Kirkman. This horror drama plays on AMC, a channel known for it’s darker, and also extremely popular shows such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Killing. The show, which is currently finishing it’s sixth season, is the most popular show on television bringing in over 22 million viewers each week. An in depth look into the content of the show proves that it’s popularity is well deserved, and that it is not just another gory addition to the zombie genre.

When chaos, violence, death, and zombies rule the world, only those who can “drive them out” survive. The Walking Dead takes this idea of driving the enemies of survival out, runs with it, and turns it into a television series. The Walking Dead is created from a comic book series written by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard with Frank Darabont developing the television series’ six seasons; this paper will analyze will be in the sixteenth episode of the third season. The show centers on a group of survivors lead and guided by Rick Grimes, a Georgian sheriff who was shot during his duties as a police officer, and awakes from the coma the shot induced to find a completely devastated world. Encountering old enemies, new foes, and countless

The popularity and appeal of the undead has greatly increased in the past few years with the rise of the popular television show, The Walking Dead. The show began in October 2010, and is still on the air today. Before the show was created, there were The Walking Dead comic books that were first published in 2003, and continue to be published today with over 148 issues. The fascination did not begin with The Walking Dead, though. Many movies were produced, and many books published before The Walking Dead was even thought of. An extremely influential individual to note is George Romero. Romero is an American-Canadian screenwriter, film producer, film director, and editor. He is best known for his series of apocalyptic films, beginning with Night of the Living Dead in 1968. Romero has been nicknamed the “Godfather of the Undead.” Some other works of fiction and film to note include 28 Days Later, I am Legend, Pride and Prejudice Zombies and The Zombie Survival Guide, also by Max Brooks. Our cultural fascination with “the return of the dead” can be traced back to the events and the general morale leading up to World War Two, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The TV series from fanforum.com that I intend to discuss in today discussion board is “the Walking Dead” originated from HBO. The show is gaining its popularity right now after the cliff-hanging ending of season six in April 2016. The growing fandom and another media revolving around the series tend to provide question and discussion about the survivability as well as the capability of the group of the main character. Even though the backbone of the show includes gore, violent and somewhat strong language, the general overview of fan and discussion threads appear to be respectful and contents. The key components of the show that attract a huge amount of fan are that the producer implies the popular culture concept of a zombie apocalypse, alternating