Yakym Somko

1. Jonathan Maberry, the author of award-winning book Rot and Ruin, writes this story in a very eye-captivating way including interesting character development and plot through the theme of “Sometimes you have to be the change you want to see”. The story starts off with the protagonist, Benny, hating his brother, Tom, for his cowardly appearance in his first memory of his parents and the zombie-infested, ruin, outside of the encumbrance of the fence. As the story progresses Benny must find a job or he will lose the slim food rations he has. When the cutoff date ever so slowly approaches Benny eventually accepts that he needs to work with his brother, killing zombies upon special request. Benny doesn’t realize it yet but it’s more than just killing. Benny is taken out on his first mission into the ruin, where he is scared for what he sees is not what he expected, he hears rumors of a vile group of people that capture kids and force them into pits of zombies in gameland and throughout the entire time only one person has escaped their grasp, Lilah(lost girl). Nix, Benny’s friend is kidnapped from her home and is taken to gameland. No one in town would make a search party for her so Benny and Tom take it in their own hands to go after and find their beloved friend. During their adventure into the ruin to find gameland and Nix, they encounter multiple booby-traps to which Benny and Tom are separated. During the time they are separated Benny finds and hides away with Nix for the…