In the past two weeks, we have been talking about how zombies reflect our nowadays society. In the last blog, I mentioned how Cohen views zombies’ actions of eating brains interpret the idea that people in modern day society focus too much on materialism. In today’s class, we talked about how zombies in the comic book The Walking Dead: Days Gone By reflecting nowadays social phenomenon. I was surprised by the comic book when I was doing the close reading because it gives the same impact as the TV show does. In the first few pages of the book, the author states that “I am not trying to scare anybody… Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are” (Kirkman 3). When I was doing the close reading, I actually skipped these pages. The comic book is fun to read, but the key thing is to take something out of it.
When I was looking at page 17 on the online version, the angle of views changes back and forth from the zombie’s view to Rick’s view, which provides a better stand for the readers to understand the situation. Also from the text, “Can’t you understand?” (Kirkman 17). The author tries to establish that some people in nowadays society are stubborn on their own ideas represent in the way that they would not listen to others. Thus, people like that are really cliché and exclusive just like the zombies.
From the monster movies, a lot of the actions that the monster presents actually can apply to ourselves. While we are looking at these monsters, we should also evaluate ourselves so that we are able to humanize our monstrous behavior to match our civil ethics.
Picture cited
http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Walking-Dead/Issue-1?id=1715