In “The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks it tells you everything you need to know about zombies and how to survive. I will demonstrate this through four examples. First is a newspaper article. It describes the thought on zombies being real or not. Second is a police report of an attack on a town. This is showing their violence and power. Third is a top ten list. It will tell you the best places to hide. Fourth and last is a photograph. It shows a picture of the terrible looking undead. These all will demonstrate the books main theme, survival.
The Theme of survival or the will to live is a very important one. I chose this theme because it is what is taught through out the book. The book has many events that show people doing things they didn’t think they could do before to survive. When in the heat of the moment, survivors have made decisions like leaving a loved one that has been infected behind. Before this, these same, very attached people could not have left their loved ones side. Survival is what keeps every living thing going. Everything wants to live as long as possible and they can only do this with the will to survive. That is why this theme is important and also why I chose it.
Sincerely,
Kevin
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
The New York Times
Zombies, Real or Myth
After what happened at Sperry, Alabama the conversation has been brought up about zombies. I have heard both sides of the story about zombies being real or not. The side that says they are real has given the zombies a disease name. They call it Solanum. They say it brings the dead back to life and infects other people. People on the other side of the argument say that the people who say they saw the so-called zombies are mentally insane. They must have been imagining what they saw. I am not sure on what to believe but when more information comes out, I will let you the readers know.
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”
Police Report for Sperry, Alabama
Today a freak attack happened in Sperry. We got several different calls about these crazy people they called them. The people were moaning and trying to bite all the people they saw. We went down to the houses that called us to check it out. We found these people that if I didn’t know better I would call them zombies. They were attacking the house and then they noticed us. There were about eight or ten of them. We told them to stop and they wouldn’t we started to open fire. The bullets went right through their chest. One of the men got lucky and shot one in the head. The man dropped and didn’t move. We realized a headshot would finish them off. We killed all of them. The people told us that they had been under attack for a couple of hours. They said that these people had died in their homes from an unknown sickness and had come back to life.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Top Ten Places to Live
During an Outbreak!
1. Offshore Oil Rig
2. Prison
3. Military complex
4. Island
5. Schools
6. Two Story House
7. Office Buildings
8. Warehouse
9. Shipyards
10. Piers and Docks
“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.”
The Eight Zombies that attacked Sparry, Alabama.
“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”
Reflection
Each reflection i did connected to survival. i choose each one so that they all connected together in a way and i also made it so that each genre connected to my book and survival. this project overall was fun and i enjoyed it. i enjoyed the book i read. one thing i didnt like was that we had to put it on this blog. it made some things that would have been easy to do on paper i could just turn in. one example of this was the wanted poster. i spent a lot a time on it and i couldnt get it to work so i just chose something else. i still enjoyed the project and i think it should be done next year.
Works Cited
"Survival Quotes." Find the Famous Quotes You Need, ThinkExist.com Quotations. Web. 27 Mar. 2011. <http://thinkexist.com/quotations/survival/>.
Zombies. Digital image. Stellarpath.net. Web.
