Rhetorical Analysis Of Modern Life In 'Chuck Klosterman'

Larkin’s thesis is reliant on assumptions requiring further examination for the whole to hold credit. Research into contemporary definitions death will examine the validity of the assumption the zombie is a dead thing, something Larkin’s text is heavily reliant on.

Klosterman uses elaborate metaphors and similes to seamlessly compare modern-day life to the prevalence of zombies in society’s media and entertainment, as well as using words with a negative connotation to influence his readers’ view of modern-day life. Through the comparison of the daily

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

AHHHHhhhhhh........! Imagine being awakened by a soft, distance scream. Wide awake, the world returns to being silent except for a racing heartbeat. Suddenly, a soft resonating moan starts to fill the empty air of the bedroom. Looking out the window, the world is an eerie grey with nothing moving but the occasional garbage blowing in the wind. Suddenly the horizon begins to change as a crowd of people begin to emerge. Watching nervously, the figures get closer and turn into something much more menacing. They are all disease-invested, flesh-rotted, brain-hungry zombies! Where did these undead monsters come from? How do they survive? What

Ever since the first zombie movie was created in 1932, there has been a constant rise of zombie appearances in popular media. Like with all monsters, the majority of zombie media aimed to represent a certain aspect throughout the society in question. Whereas vampires represented romanticism and Dracula represented how a certain social group was viewed during a certain time period, zombies in Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” aimed to create a situation whereby a group of people had to survive a night together, despite their racial tensions between one another. Being the founder of all subsequent zombie films, “Night of the Living Dead” provided a guideline for zombie behavior. As time passed, more and more versions of the zombie came out, whereby zombies stopped being a plot device and turned into the focus of the film itself. The Walking Dead, currently standing as the fourth most popular TV series, took a turn from this progression and decided to imitate Romero’s take on zombies. By including zombies which simply aimed to sustain themselves by consuming the flesh of the “live,” the creators of The Walking Dead caused the remaining survivors to gather together and rely on primitive human instinct to survive. Even though the zombies in this series run rampant, they play a very minimalistic metaphoric role. Instead, by presenting the zombies as a plot device, the characters in this series were able to demonstrate their true prejudiced view on society, ultimately revealing

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

John Stratton wrote “Zombie Trouble” after he noticed the increase in zombie texts, and realized that it was corresponding to how western countries were becoming anxious about illegal immigrants entering their countries, with the apparent increase in refugees. He especially shows us that the zombie threats are a metaphor for how the people in the West fear the growth in the number of displaced people. In the article, Stratton often refers to the term “displaced people,” when speaking about refugees, asylum-seekers, and illegal migrants. He continually compares zombies to displaced people, by using Giorgio Agamben’s “bare life.” He also goes on to explain to us how “bare life” has two aspects. The first aspect of bare life is the fact that they

Klosterman proposes that he knows why the interest in zombies has grown so much. He attributes this to zombies being very easy to kill, come in large quantities, and have no depth of character. Klosterman’s explanation for such intrigue in zombies is their parallel to our day to day existence. He relates zombies to many real life activities, like going through a weekends worth of emails on Monday. Along with the constant saturation of news we can get from the internet, the concept of it being easy to close, or kill, and come in large quantities are very similar to zombies. Klosterman provides this as a better exploitation of the popularity of

In the event of a zombie apocalypse, there is the mentality of kill or be killed. Those who are killed are turned from living, breathing humans into a zombie, a shell that barely resembles the individual it once was. In the film Night of the Living Dead, as well as in all zombie movies, the walking dead are portrayed as mindless animals who prey on the humans around them and are “condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth” (Paffenroth 18). This perspective is duplicated in the way society views the obese. Society views the obese as mindless subhumans whose fat outward appearance hardly mirrors that of their thin self that should exist instead. This paper will examine the loss of identity and dehumanization that accompanies the notion of zombies in Night of the Living Dead and how this relates to the American attitude regarding obesity.

War. We are always at war, with ourselves, others, with life ,and with death. We are constantly fighting to come out of these wars as victors, but something is always lost. While fighting to survive, and fighting to keep loved ones safe, innocence is thrust into the backseat. Morals, laws, and order is all lost when our brains and bodies kick into survival mode. When fighting zombies there is no chance to second guess or take a break to question one's actions, because it's a life or death situation. So in this war with zombies, we fight for survival, family, and pray our innocence stays intact. The loss of innocence is inevitable in a zombie apocalypse, because when we are fighting to survive, there is no way to save or maintain our innocence.

I initiate the discourse on the purpose of consciousness by first introducing Night of the Living Dead, as an effort to reveal an intuitive claim as a running theme of the movie: consciousness is what distinguishes me from the living dead. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead can teach us about what our assumptions on the purpose of higher consciousness by having it be the root feature that distinguishes the living from the undead. When Johnny dies and his corpse comes back from the local cemetery, the consciousness of his mind is left behind—there remains only emptiness inside the zombie. As his consciousness vanishes, so does the person that we used call Johnny—the corpse itself is now just a mindless shell. The Romero zombie comes back as completely subject to the zombie law of nature; leaving behind the mind, all that they can do is what a zombie does—and all zombies devour. The absolute mindlessness that characterizes the zombies in Romero’s creation, reflects on the idea, that, a free-acting human being can be reduced to nothing more than a mindless corpse by stripping away their consciousness.

The topic of a zombie apocalypse has come up more often than before within the past decade due to many TV showings, films and video games exposing the idea of a zombie epidemic. It is nothing new, a common topic of discussion with friends on a weekend and even debated in lectures on the hypothetical theory of this event ever occurring. Since discussing the aftermath of the social and political standings is a grey area to think about, I have chosen to conduct a comparison and analysis in regards to the likelihood of this situation occurring using Locke, Hobbes, and Nietzsche theories.

Brendan Riley “The Undead Gourmet” grasps of viewing zombies not as mindless brain eating monsters, but a more complex conscious being. Also examines us, the humans, not having remorse to killing other zombies, apart from our close family. Riley explains his argument in four stages; “The Right To Bear Arms Against Zombies(pg. 1), What If Zombies Used Their Brains(pg. 2), Love Your Zombie Neighbor(pg. 3), and Zombie Rights”(pg. 4).Some great arguments are made in this article, but diving deeper into some of these arguments will decide if “is it okay to kill a zombie just because it wants to eat you?”(pg. 1).

Is it possible to kill an idea when it is undead? Classic movie monsters tend to fade in and out of popularity as audiences grow bored and move on to fresher concepts. But there is one that has risen up and does not seem to slow down: zombies. Zombies have gone from being a small subgenre of horror film to a staple of popular culture across various media. This paper will explore the rise of zombies in popular culture and why it continues to remain relevant.

There are many political theories in the world today. Drezner addresses how realism, liberalism, constructivism, neo-conservatism, and bureaucratic politics would face the threat of a zombie apocalypse throughout his book. Each theory presented with the possibility of a world where the dead walk amongst the living and feed on their flesh, and then Drezner would elaborate on how each political theory would unfold if the world were to decide to pursue that particular political theory. This elaboration helps us determine if the world could even survive a zombie apocalypse. Although many people would ask is the threat of a zombie apocalypse even a