Personal Narrative: Someone Behaving Like A Zombie

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Sometimes we refer to someone behaving “like a zombie.” This phrase could mean several things. A person could be mumbling, walking slowly, or eating very aggressively. These are all characteristics of zombies, and sometimes people act like them.

My friend, Lauren, tends to mumble a lot. Most of the time, people cannot understand what she is saying because she speaks so low and all all her words flow together. I have to translate for her pretty often. Some like to say she sounds “like a zombie” especially in the mornings, having just woken up.

In most movies and television shows, zombies walk extremely slowly. They just kind of mope around aimlessly. A lot of people do this in the hallways at school, and it really bothers me. These people are said to walk “like a zombie” often because they had to wake up so early and do not want to be here.
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Not only do they eat them, they eat them extremely aggressively. I actually am guilty of this one. I may be small, but I like to eat, and I eat a lot. When I am really hungry, I eat quickly and I guess you could say aggressively. I am said to eat “like a zombie” when I do

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