Warm Bodies

While I was reading Warm Bodies, I realized that it was different from the other zombie texts we’ve read in class. Other texts like “Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco” or “Danger Word,” don’t give the zombies any human qualities, while Warm Bodies does. As the story progresses and R spends more time with Julie, he is described as becoming more human; he begins to have visions and have feelings towards her. I like the approach the author has on zombies, because it’s very different from what I relate zombies to. When I think of zombies, I never think of them as having human characteristics, but as dead things that have no control over what they do. Isaac Marion gives the zombies in his story human characteristics that challenge traditional views on zombies. He allows the reader to relate to the zombies, especially R, and to see them as more than threats or enemies. He also offers a different solution to the zombie issue, unlike the other texts we’ve read, where the only solution is to kill the zombies.