Burn The Dead Quarantine Essay

My short story is aimed at adults, it was influenced by the book Burn the Dead: Quarantine by Steven Jenkens. I aimed to create a distorted image of the new world that was plagued by an abyss of loneliness to represent the enmity and depression felt by the main character.
I wrote in a first person narrative to place the reader in Lillias shoes and to evoke pity for her confusion disorientation and despair. My style model is also written in first person narrative for example “I can’t breathe; the wind knocked out of me” the use of the as the first person narrative allows a more powerful way to convey a closer more personal relationship with the reader and the writer which makes the story more entertaining. I switch between past and present tense. …show more content…
My use of interrogative sentence was to show the main character’s confusion and disorientation for example "is that really me?" This interrogative shows her startling realisation what she has become, she has lost her being and is becoming more like the lurkers the more she lives feral in the dystopian world. The self-questioning also confirms her the instability of the world she subsides in. My style model does a similar concept of using simple integrative sentence to question himself and his actions for example “what the fuck have I done? How could I have been so stupid?” to show his regret and repentance for his actions although he knows it’s too late to change what he has done. Similar to my short story which also shows ruefulness as both characters know they have made a mistake, although my characters regret comes from long term choices as she has been exposed to the new zombie world for far longer than the character in my style model so she has become also unhuman which ins shown the demonstrative pronoun “that”.