Symbolism In Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies, a novel by Isaac Marion, creates a suspenseful and horrific story. The main character, R, is a boy who is a zombie, and he only calls himself R due to a loss of memory, since he is “dead.” He exposes the readers to an interesting assertion, which entails that all of the human civilization has been deemed and demolished through wars. The result of this demolishment led to the rise of a zombie revolution. The zombies live in distinct places, and they are divided into two groups constructed by amount of decay. The groups are the Fleshies, who are dead, yet have some flesh, and the Boneys, the dead who only have bones to hold them together. We come to understand that the Boneys are the dominant zombies and they are quite more intelligent than the Fleshies. So what group is R in? Actually, Marion classifies him as unusual due to his high levels of affect and intuition. He is the one zombie who willingly despises eating human blood. He is a weird zombie, but one night he meets a fellow zombie woman, whom he begins to call his girlfriend. …show more content…
The woman even takes R to a church, where a Boney minister weds them. After the wedding, they go to a party where they see young human adults. R eats a young boy’s brain named Perry. He begins to intertwine with Perry’s memories. With this experience he has had of Perry’s memories, R sees Perry’s girlfriend Julie. R actually saves Julie from the other zombies by disguising her with his own zombie smell and takes her to hide away in a 747 plane, his house. He begins to like Julie and he starts to gain her trust so he begs her to stay longer. However, he feels guilty for killing Perry, but Julie doesn’t know R killed