Christian Carter
Essay 1: Critique
ENG 102-C781
Caroline Mayes-Cooper
September 19, 2017
A Critique of Zombies Zombies! Wait, what is a zombie? A zombie is a person who appears lifeless and without responsiveness to their surroundings. However, per Chuck Klosterman, we are all zombies. Every partaker in modern life is either a zombie or already well on the way to becoming one. Chuck Klosterman is a prolific author, essayist, and pop culture critic. Throughout his career, he has written for multiple large-scale publications such as The New York Times, Esquire, and many others. Klosterman has worked diligently to obtain positions within the publications he has written for. It is his career choice and the hurdles that come with it that has helped to formulate his belief in the modern zombie. Klosterman’s personal experiences invaded and wreaked havoc upon his beliefs and opinions of the modern person. Klosterman wrote a piece titled “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels …show more content…
There are always exceptions and therefore absolute terms also weaken the overall point of the article. To summarize every person’s life based on one’s own experiences formulates a disconnect between reader and author. This formulation causes an error that can be nearly catastrophic to any would be strong point in the writing. It is imperative that one understands there are always exceptions to any specific case.
In conclusion, Klosterman’s article My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead the gross overuse of statistics, the lack of logical flow, being spoken in absolute terms removes the strength of the article. His position is weakened greatly by the lack of his voice and by the misuse of information. It is these mistakes that created a dissociation and unrelatability between myself and the article. That very dissociation is also the ultimate downfall of my belief in the article or his position on life being
Essay 1: Critique
ENG 102-C781
Caroline Mayes-Cooper
September 19, 2017
A Critique of Zombies Zombies! Wait, what is a zombie? A zombie is a person who appears lifeless and without responsiveness to their surroundings. However, per Chuck Klosterman, we are all zombies. Every partaker in modern life is either a zombie or already well on the way to becoming one. Chuck Klosterman is a prolific author, essayist, and pop culture critic. Throughout his career, he has written for multiple large-scale publications such as The New York Times, Esquire, and many others. Klosterman has worked diligently to obtain positions within the publications he has written for. It is his career choice and the hurdles that come with it that has helped to formulate his belief in the modern zombie. Klosterman’s personal experiences invaded and wreaked havoc upon his beliefs and opinions of the modern person. Klosterman wrote a piece titled “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels …show more content…
There are always exceptions and therefore absolute terms also weaken the overall point of the article. To summarize every person’s life based on one’s own experiences formulates a disconnect between reader and author. This formulation causes an error that can be nearly catastrophic to any would be strong point in the writing. It is imperative that one understands there are always exceptions to any specific case.
In conclusion, Klosterman’s article My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead the gross overuse of statistics, the lack of logical flow, being spoken in absolute terms removes the strength of the article. His position is weakened greatly by the lack of his voice and by the misuse of information. It is these mistakes that created a dissociation and unrelatability between myself and the article. That very dissociation is also the ultimate downfall of my belief in the article or his position on life being