Surviving A Zombie Apocalypse

She allows the reader to truly imagine themselves in a zombie apocalypse by using description and comparison. “If you work in the many white-collar fields that have suffered in this recession, zombies are the perfect representation of the fiscal horror show” (Bosch, 651). Any reader that works in the white-collar fields, or knows anyone that does, can relate to what Bosch is saying because she used a vivid description and a comparison in one sentence. Readers will read this line and imagine their work chaos during the recession and immediately visualize zombies taking over the world and the madness that goes along with that. “There was a recession. It was a time of unemployment – of white-collar employment…” (Warner, 197). She also uses another type of figurative language: a metaphor. When she talks about the reality of zombie television shows and movies, she used a metaphor to compare modern day zombies to unicorns. “[n]o longer are zombies the beloved genre of the lonely, virgin teenage male, the macabre flipside of the girls’ obsession with unicorns” (Bosch, 651). She uses this metaphor to enhance the reader’s reading experience with humor but also by allowing the reader to understand how modern day zombie television shows and movies are looked upon. It is no longer for guts and gore but for fondness of shows and

Reading through the whole essay, there are many appealing strategies found in order to strengthen the essay academically. Brooks attracts the audience with a pathos-style strategy, giving specific movie examples to straighten up the essay. The movie Night of the Living Dead resonates the viewers with an image of a flesh-eating and harmful zombie figure instead of a harmless voodoo-created zombie, which makes the notion of zombies transformed into a horrifying figure, provoking the sense of fear of audience with emotional appeal. The revolutionary creation of zombie film was led by George A. Romero, the father of the entirely new horror genre. In his work, zombies are characterized as a form of undead

In the possible occurrence of a zombie apocalypse, certain measures involving shelter, food, weapons, and fitness should be taken to better the chances of survival in such a desperate situation. Throughout the years, movies, television shows, and other miscellaneous hype have heightened a large number of people’s suspicion about the possibility of disease-ridden humans taking over the world. In reality, that atrocity is not exactly far-fetched. With so many vaccines and medicines being mass produced without the sufficient steps taken to test the results, the chance of humans contracting unimaginable side effects is a rational possibility. If

Klosterman does not begin his essay by connecting zombies with technology in a negative light, but instead spends the first few paragraphs describing how zombies have risen to popularity in recent years. “Roughly 5.3 million people watched the first episode of The Walking Dead on AMC, a stunning 83 percent more than the 2.9 million who watched the Season 4 premiere of Mad Men”. Then, Klosterman explores a few ideas why zombies may have risen to such popularity (“Zombies are just so easy to kill”). Klosterman develops his essay in a logical way, first stating his claim that zombies have risen to popularity, and following up with thoughts about why that might be. Klosterman gets to his main point - “A lot of modern life is exactly like slaughtering zombies”, and then immediately dives into the similarities that zombies have with technology, such as how a war with zombies is a repetitive “numbers game”, similar in nature to “reading and deleting 400 work e-mails” or “filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork”. Here, Klosterman connects zombies with technology, noting that modern life is a lot like killing both, which helps the reader understand that technology is like an undead horde of zombies that never ends. After spending the first half of his essay building the scary and dangerous perspective of zombies, in the last paragraph, Klosterman encourages his audience to keep fighting. “But you can do this, my friend… Don’t stop believing. Don’t stop deleting”. Klosterman finally reaches his last statements where he ends on a positive note, letting the reader hope for a better future. This is important because it motivates the reader to strive for that future where “we can live better”, and be in a world where neither zombie nor technology exists to drag humans

In the story Max Brooks tells the reader about the different things that the zombies have been involved in such as movies, video games, and books. This shows that the author was really fascinated by the zombies

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

Fear itself is seldom a cause of trauma in everyday existence, but having to face close-range interpersonal aggression is a traumatic experience of an entirely different magnitude (Grossman). During the initial outbreak of terror while everyone is scrambling to save his or her own life, survival mode kicks in and an individual starts to plan on saving one’s self. The need to be a powerful motivator drives an average person to do what any normal person would consider unthinkable. Abandoning monsters plaguing the entire world, helping others in need, or deciding to save one’s self is a decision that will be made. The decision to save one’s own life will bring a person to question his own humanity while discovering the benefits of self-

A major contributing factor to this great change is the fear and uncertainty that is instilled by the zombies. I believe that Brooks defined fear through people’s reactions to the outbreak. He explains how fear is the most basic emotion and how fear is the reasoning to perform an act. In one of his stories, he writes, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe” (Brooks). This is true because we buy products and services based on the fear of not having those products and the results of not having that commodity.

The zombie apocalypse, a scenario everyone has thought of at some point. The zombie virus is a disease that can spread quickly through the population and causes the dead to reanimate and cause a hunger for flesh. Abnormal behavior, agitation, terror, and delirium can also be used to describe a zombie, but are actually some symptoms of Rabies. Now, Rabies does not reanimate the dead, but it does change the personality of the organism it infects to an aggressive one. In this essay, I will explore the history, symptoms, and causes of Rabies.

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

As we drove down the deserted road we heard gun fire. I drove up a little further, and in the back of a large clearing, I noticed a group of several survivors open firing on a mass of about twenty biters, none of which had hit the ground. The crackle of gunfire continued to drift up towards us

Zombie texts have been a longstanding subgenre of fantasy. Often gory and with elements of horror, the apocalyptic destruction of the human race brought about by some form of virus is consumed by many and is reoccurring in popular culture. It is often questioned why we find such enjoyment in a text that depicts such horrors. The answer is in the role fantasy plays, which is a fulfillment of a wish, a way to depict our explicit desires in a licit way, and to provide a screen for us to do this. World War Z (WWZ) adheres to these fantasy elements whilst also highlighting the mediation between duty and pleasure. The scene that has been selected for analysis is one where hero Gerry Lane is fleeing with his family up the stairs of an apartment complex to meet the helicopter that is coming to save them, all whilst fighting off a horde of zombies. This scene is tense, fast-paced, and shows our hero fulfilling his expected role and the desires of the viewers.

Zombie Town is a documentary play written by Tim Bauer and the story is about a theatre collective from San Francisco who goes to Harwood, Texas to interview the residents who survived a zombie attack. The play began with an interview of the survivors, and it ended with a brilliant plot twist. In the interview, the surviving citizens narrated their harrowing experience and described the challenges that they faced while trying to escape their zombie-infested town. The ending of the play was brilliant yet tragic because the zombie apocalypse turned out to be real. Watching the play was a thrilling experience for me because it was entertaining from beginning to end. And although the plot was simple, the overall production of the play coupled with the performers’ phenomenal acting skills made the story entertaining and watch worthy. And even though I already know the story’s ending and the plot twist I still enjoyed watching it because the play was well put together.

The Night of the Living Dead, bring up the question: If our love ones were zombies would we kill them? We all have to take the time to think about it. Barbara was devastated, because her brother became a zombie, but didn’t think twice before throwing herself “We distrust and loathe the monster at the same time we envy, its freedom, and perhaps its sublime 3despair” (Cohen).Even when we know that zombies can harm us, they fasten us, because we want to be free from the need to survive. We all have either school, and or job that helps us get to the

Darkness devoured everything in sight. A sea of lifeless moans crashed into the walls that kept me prisoner. I could feel the hot breath of those creatures seeping through the walls. Paranoia invaded my brain like the disease that infested those monsters. They were constantly trying to get in. They knew I was here, I was a meal trapped in a cage and every intake of breath was a ring of the dinner bell. Suddenly the snaps of rotting wood punched my ear drum. The snarling monsters came tumbling through the gaps, their twisting bodies shuffling towards me. As their outstretched limbs searched for my flesh I was ripped away by the ring of a phone. The television had sucked me in once again. Casting me in the middle of the fictitious apocalypse. The concept of zombies has always been a welcomed thought to me but why? Why am I and other humans fascinated with the thought of this life threatening concept? These creatures are known by many names. The undead, zombies, even the popular tv show “The Walking Dead” refers to them as walkers. Within history we find that the term ‘zombie’ comes from Haitian folklore where corpse reanimation was achieved mostly through magic. In recent times radiation, mental disease, scientific accidents, etc. attribute to this reanimation.