Analysis....

           After reading Chapter 9 in the book and learning more about analysis, I decided it couldn’t hurt to include an analysis link for you guys to read. I also decided this would be a helpful idea because I realized a lot of us are using analysis for our two genre essays and I wanted to share this useful analysis I found online about what better than the topic we’ve been discussing.. ZOMBIES. This post is similar to the articles we have been reading in class. It raises the question as the first article we read by Sirota, “What’s With All the Zombies?” Well this one is called, “Why We’re Obsessed with the Zombie Apocalypse” This is a brief analysis but it raises the question what is the deal with zombies? I also wanted you guys to read it because I am going to somehow link it to my analysis for the two genre essay as well. Well anyways, here’s the link: http://m.livescience.com/27287-zombie-apocalypse-world-war-ii.html         

In this article, Stephanie Pappas suggested that this spike in popularity, “may trace back to an unexpected source”. In the article, she suggested that zombies may actually be helping us with the aftermath of World War II. She then referenced Vindergar, a doctoral student in comparative literature. Vindegar mentioned the shows, “The Walking Dead and 28 Weeks Later” saying society enjoys these zombie survival films because we want to see how they’d act in a “survivalist situation”. Vindegar also suggested that “zombies are important as a reflection of ourselves”. I found this incredibly interesting because this is the claim people have made the entire time, including myself. Humans are drawn to zombies because they are in fact a reflection of what the human race has potential to become. Zombies are mindless beings which were once living, breathing humans. This theory is one of the many that claims responsibility for striking an interest in the zombie flicks in society presently. Vindegar then went on to say, “Even as a society we have lost a lot of our belief in a positive future and instead have more of an idea of a disaster to come, we still think that we are survivors, we still want to believe that we would survive.” I find this quote interesting as well, watching these films and series and watching these people have no choice but to survive gives us humans hope if we are in fact fearing a disastrous future. While watching these zombie films we imagine ourselves surviving in this situation. What things would we do differently? What techniques would we use? I will validate my point because in our last assigned article, “What Don’t People Do In Zombie Apocalypse Movies That You Would Do?” by Williams. This article effectively displays that in our society, we have thought about techniques in which we would survive. These zombie movies are pulling on our instinctive behaviors and techniques we would use if we were in the shoes of these characters. Essentially, if our society is fearing disaster, watching zombie apocalyptic films in which survival is the main goal would help cope with this fear.

So, here's my question for you guys: What is a technique (or multiple techniques) you would use (given our current knowledge of zombies) to help survive a zombie apocalypse?