Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies was a lot different that a lot of other texts we've been reading about Zombies. Most of the previous texts depict Zombies as lacking innate human qualities. Basically, they are seen to lack humanity, and not obey the basic constructs of life and death. In Warm Bodies, though there is still deviation from what life and death of a human should be, you see a return to humanity by the main character, R. This, I thought was very interesting. In the world of horror movies and scary stories, there is not much depiction of a good zombie or monster. Zombies are supposed to kill humans, and even though this is present in the book, an alternative side to what Zombie life is can be clearly seen. A juxtaposition between the good and the bad zombies lends a more humanistic quality to the entire fight taking place in the story. There is both good and bad in world, even in the zombie world, and Zombies are not all categorized together under the title of bad. Throughout the book you see an evolvement of what is good and bad, and you see that even in the Zombie population there are opposing sides and views, just as you would find in a human population.