Warm Bodies

The fact that zombies cannot remember their life prior to being infected serves to reinforce the idea that memories are a human quality. This reminded me of Philip K. Dick’s ideas on memory, such as that memories make us who we are, therefore if there was the ability to alter them who would we be? In the case of Warm Bodies when R eats Perry’s brain and gains his memories he then falls in love with Julie and then he constantly experiences encounters with what might be Perry’s soul, so it makes me wonder if R takes on some of Perry’s qualities.

In Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, one of the first things I noticed was that the book is in the perspective of R, the zombie, which in the book he is referred to as a Dead. I thought this interesting because usually we never consider the perspective of the zombies, we just assume they have no thoughts, yet Warm Bodies challenges the usual idea of a zombie, by portraying R as victim of the disease rather than some thoughtless monster. Warm Bodies reminds us that zombies were once people too. Like many of us R is in search to find who he is, to figure out his sense of identity and belonging.