Living Dead in Dallas

Dead Until Dark Dead Until Dark, a fantasy, mystery novel by Charlaine Harris, looks at changes in the structure of society as a point of crisis to explore identities of violence and sexual deviance, using the vampire as the abject or other that, ultimately, reflects the self. The society depicted in Dead Until Dark finds itself in crisis due to the revelation that vampires exist and want to become a visible part of the community. However, vampires must deal with abjection as they enter society: “We had all the other minorities in our little town-why not the newest,” Sookie Stackhouse, the novel’s protagonist, thinks, locating the vampire as the other. The normative boundaries are breaking down for both Sookie and the community where she lives as they are forced to incorporate the peculiarities of the vampires. It is this confrontation with the uncanny that causes fear in Sookie’s world and forces its inhabitants into a reflective state on the hidden self that the vampires represent, a repressed self of violence and hyper sexuality (Garabedian 612). Society, as…

g, I slam down the gas pedal, speeding down the road towards town. When we drove past the plaza with the orthodontist’s office, it was surrounded by zombies. Swearing loudly, I know I can’t get in there. I call my dad to make sure he’s alright, when he finally answers his phone, he had already been to the shed and grabbed a shotgun and was grabbing the spare gas containers and is going to fill them and grab more non perishable food for our emergency room. We had it for things like hurricanes or…

Zombie Project The very first day was going great. My friends and I were on our way home from school. My friends name our Riley and Jaylin. On our way home to work on a project we saw this strange thing coming toward us. We thought it was another kid trying to pull a prank on us. We were dead, I mean Dead wrong. Like the thing was limping and saying weird things. We tried to ignore it, but it keep following us. Riley (trying to be brave) started to head toward the weird thing. He came back…

Fear is an emotion that leads people to do things they would not normally do. It awakens a sector of a personality they never knew they had. A major recurring theme in World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is fear as a driving force. Fear leads to insanity, inhumanity, and unity. In most wars, fear is liability that burdens both sides. If one side is able to capitalize on the fear of their opponents, this may give them the upper hand. However, when one side happens to be the living…

Still others came from the creek and the gravel trail behind us. Scenes of great suffering, moans, wails, tormented screams and the sounds of bones snapping and shifting into place echoed in from all around us while also reverberating of the walls of the bridges substructure creating a cacophony of horror that shook me to my core. More of Frankenstein’s travel companions materialized from the formerly still waters of the creek. The ground directly behind Charlie caved in and…

Zombies in today’s society are recognized as slow, dead, flesh eating creatures that take over the world, such as in The Walking Dead. When zombies come to mind, people think of apocalypse, destruction, and end of the world or humanity. Overtime, the concept of zombies is changing, so is people’s concept of technology. Technology is controlling people’s lives, just like zombies might take over the world someday. For example, when a group of people go out for dinner, they do not socialize with…

In fact, most buildings do not meet the criteria of a zombie proof building; however, there is a building that seems to be fairly safe compared to the others. That building would be the Wellness Center. The very first thing a person must check on a building is the amount of exits and entrances it has, because that not only defines the number of ways to escape in case of emergency, but also the number of ways the walking dead can break in and eat the remaining survivors. The Wellness center has…

Mid-day in a small town of campbellsville, KY calm as calm could get. Then chaos struck, live television, talking about an infected human being infecting others also known as zombies. So as an appocalypse began all i had was myself and my long, silver, weapon to help me survive the appocalyptic city. So as im hearing about all the bad news about a “zombie appocalypse” i took my sharp, long, hard weapon and i took off to the woods of taylor county, KY. As im walking i see groups of zombies,…

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…

that have a community built on a common goal gives these people the best odds of surviving a Posthuman event. The episode “Killer Within” of The Walking Dead shows Rick, Carol, Maggie, Glenn, and Daryl acting individualistic towards members not in their pre-established community in an effort to protect themselves from potential dangers. However, T-Dog demonstrates a communitarian approach by wanting to allow new people to join their community. According to Murray individualism is when…