Monster Island

This week's reading and movie were nice complements to each other. Both dealt with the same type of monster (zombies) yet both presented them in very different ways. The book had a contemporary post-apocalyptic setting with a twist. Instead of focusing on America, which a lot of people tend to do, the writer put in people from different countries and back grounds. These different people have to band together to stay a live but differences such as language it is hard for them to get along. The major twist in this novel is that the reader is given the point of view of one of the more intelligent zombies. This plays on our morals because this zombie can talk and think for himself so does that mean hes still human? The movie has the generic zombies but the main protagonist is black ( uncommon in that time). In zombie movies today we always seem to want a hero who escapes and does not die but, as the movie and novel show us the final ending when it comes to zombies can only be one thing. Their total annihilation of the human race.