In the Rot and Ruin Benny Imura learns zombies aren't a threat They're just sick people, Not horrible monsters. Where as in night of the living dead zombies are horrible monsters to be murdered mercilessly. This book challenges the tropes and themes of the zombie genre. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs a good, gripping read with a story as well as action.
The Rot and Ruin, a wasteland ravaged by the zombie plague, an emp and fear of the “first night”. In the small town of mountainside, there are rules. And when you turn 15 you have to find a job or you get half rations. Benny tries multiple professions, but turns to the family business as his source of income. As a bounty hunter, you hunt and kill zombies for families that would …show more content…
The main character’s view to show maturity and growth, but also to make you think. In Night of the Living Dead. You see zombies as mindless beasts to only be slaughtered or overwhelmed by eventually. Not as people who had lived and a job and family. They had a chance to impact the world, but are now cursed to walk or shuffle for eternity. In Rot and Ruin that view is challenged by two events. Once where you see three bounty hunters on the opening of a canyon playing a game of name a martial art move, perform said move and the other two rate it and either kill the zombie or perform another move. This is a teaching moment for tom, as Benny is confused at first and showing how the rot and ruin is stripped of rules and for many humanity. It disgusts Benny to see someone's husband or grandma killed for sport and …show more content…
In the story, Benny only remembers one thing about the first night, him being handed to Tom from his mom who wore a white dress with red sleeves and that he was a coward for running away from his mother and how he should’ve fought and saved his Mom. The main conflict of the book is where Benny’s only crush named Nix, and her mother, Jessie Riley is murdered and she is kidnapped. The kidnapper is a man nicknamed Charlie Pink-Eye, once a figure of manliness and courage, benny learns the truth about him. That he’s only a big bully who is just afraid of people.
The ending of this book is special because as a reader, you can figure out that Benny’s mom had been bitten and had probably begged for Tom to run. Benny also learns this. And of a story of how Charlie had picked up on a gated community called sunset hollow and how he and a group of men were mass-killing the zombies inside. But one man stopped them, he killed the whole group except one. A man named Charlie, had begged for his life and was on his knees in front of
The Rot and Ruin, a wasteland ravaged by the zombie plague, an emp and fear of the “first night”. In the small town of mountainside, there are rules. And when you turn 15 you have to find a job or you get half rations. Benny tries multiple professions, but turns to the family business as his source of income. As a bounty hunter, you hunt and kill zombies for families that would …show more content…
The main character’s view to show maturity and growth, but also to make you think. In Night of the Living Dead. You see zombies as mindless beasts to only be slaughtered or overwhelmed by eventually. Not as people who had lived and a job and family. They had a chance to impact the world, but are now cursed to walk or shuffle for eternity. In Rot and Ruin that view is challenged by two events. Once where you see three bounty hunters on the opening of a canyon playing a game of name a martial art move, perform said move and the other two rate it and either kill the zombie or perform another move. This is a teaching moment for tom, as Benny is confused at first and showing how the rot and ruin is stripped of rules and for many humanity. It disgusts Benny to see someone's husband or grandma killed for sport and …show more content…
In the story, Benny only remembers one thing about the first night, him being handed to Tom from his mom who wore a white dress with red sleeves and that he was a coward for running away from his mother and how he should’ve fought and saved his Mom. The main conflict of the book is where Benny’s only crush named Nix, and her mother, Jessie Riley is murdered and she is kidnapped. The kidnapper is a man nicknamed Charlie Pink-Eye, once a figure of manliness and courage, benny learns the truth about him. That he’s only a big bully who is just afraid of people.
The ending of this book is special because as a reader, you can figure out that Benny’s mom had been bitten and had probably begged for Tom to run. Benny also learns this. And of a story of how Charlie had picked up on a gated community called sunset hollow and how he and a group of men were mass-killing the zombies inside. But one man stopped them, he killed the whole group except one. A man named Charlie, had begged for his life and was on his knees in front of