The Walking Dead

Sort By:
Page 5 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Best Essays

    The Walking Dead is a television show produced by AMC based off the black and white comic books by Robert Kirkman. The show and comic book center around main character Rick Grimes as he learns to cope with life after waking up from a deadly wound into an outbreak of virus wielding undead creatures known as “walkers.” Over the course of season two and season three, the show starts to center around how Rick is able to command the group of survivors and the challenges they face trying to settle down

    • 2032 Words
    • 9 Pages
    • 16 Works Cited
    Best Essays
  • Good Essays

    between “online” and “offline”) proves the false justification of “The Walking Dead[s]” claims and puts the player in seemingly relevant irrelevant scenarios. Telltales game exploits the players empathy that causes the player to think they are following an inter(re)activity through irrelevant decision making. An article by Smethurst, Toby, and Stef Craps, “Playing with Trauma: Interreactivity, Empathy and Complicity in The Walking Dead Video Game.”, suggests the “games ability to involve the player

    • 989 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Walking Dead Research question: Why do I agree/disagree with the new meaning of life and world order in the popular hit television series The Walking Dead that highlights a new society after the collapse of the world as we know it? The Walking Dead brings a spot light to the new meaning of life. With many aspects of what it could be now it is up to the cast of this fictional TV series to show the audience. There is no media, internet, television or radio no one knows what is going on in different

    • 1316 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    "Disoriented", the one word Rick Grimes uses to describe the moments he has been through before reuniting with his family. In a world driven into a apocalypse, filled with the undead and anarchy, everyone's will and faith are tested. One will either be changed for worst or for the better. This essay will analyze the actions of Rick Grimes, present my ideas if I were in Ricks position, and to answer for the actions of one more character. Both Rick Grimes and his actions are moral and unselfish. Rather

    • 993 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The end of the film, Dead Man Walking, is definitely quite surprising. Throughout the film, the audience is given an insight into the lives of death row convict Matthew Poncelot and a nun guiding him to his death. The nun, Sister Helen Prejean, is torn throughout the film; she wants to help Matt own up to his monstrous acts as well as help the grieving families of Matt’s victim’s move on. What is perhaps the most shocking part of the film is the rollercoaster of flashbacks, leading the audience

    • 651 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The film Dead Man Walking depicts the life of an inmate sentenced to the death penalty through lethal injection. The film portrays prison as grim, isolated and lonely place. The life of prisoners in the film live in agony and suffering. The main issue with prison shown by the film is the death penalty. In specific the main character, Matthew Poncelet has been incarcerated for six years, still awaiting his execution. Furthermore, Matthew Poncelet appeals to another court showing the death penalty

    • 551 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    especially in media programming. Fueling this fascination is AMC’s The Walking Dead (Darabont, 2010) fashioned on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. This series has experienced widespread acceptance in today’s pop culture, capturing the People’s Choice Award for favorite cable drama in 2014 as well as the Critics’ Choice Television Award for most bingeworthy show in 2015. Ratings for The Walking Dead over the past six seasons show that millions of viewers tune in

    • 831 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Armageddon as Positive Force : Ray Bradbury 's "The Highway" and Robert Kirkman 's The Walking Dead Who knew the end of the world as we know it could be a good thing? At least this is what the end of the world is shown to be in Ray Bradbury 's "The Highway" and Robert Kirkman 's The Walking Dead. In both stories, the apocalypse cleanses the world of the filth of civilisation, which is presented as something hindering the protagonists and mankind in general. The destruction of civilisation also allows

    • 1095 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    even if there is no public support. It is self-sustained.” Life of David Gale directed by Alan Parker, and Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins are both films about redemption. The men in both films had no support from their society, until they contacted someone to listen to their story. The films have different approaches on how to redeem the main characters.Life of David Gale and Dead Man Walking have similarities and differences. In Life of David Gale, David Gale was about a professor at the University

    • 929 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    right now. In the Odyssey article “5 Reasons Why The Walking Dead Is The Best Show On Television Right Now” by Delainey Huck, the author lists the five reasons why the author believes that the Walking Dead is the great show on television right now. The author believes that the show has more to offer, not just a regular and boring survival zombie show. The first reason that the author provides to support her belief is that the Walking Dead show is more than just about zombies. The show follows

    • 355 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays