After reading the Walking Dead graphic novel one of the biggest
things I noticed was how quickly and easily it was for some people to
transition into this new life and yet difficult for others. Rick jumped
right into this new weirdness and was ready to take on the zombies, while other
characters like Shane seemed to hold onto the idea that the world was going to
one day go back to how it was.
Weird
is anything out of the normal. Normal changes; for us it is the tradition
of living in a home or apartment, going to school or work, paying bills,
worrying about the future, and just being a person in society. In the
graphic novel The Walking Dead we would call their lives weird because it does
not fit into our normal, even though that has become their normal.
The graphic novel follows a few families that
have been brought together in the event of a zombie apocalypse. There are
many trials for them to overcome together, and like all good zombie stories a
lot of death and blood. In the novel, there are a few different things
that would appear as weird to us but have become these people's every day.
The first, and most obvious, is the
zombies. Through the first part of the book they live near Atlanta which
is completely overtaken by the walking dead; a few of the people make journeys
into town to get supplies. They also have a few "roamers" as
they are called. Random zombies will walk into their camp on the daily
and they have to be stopped. Having a zombie walk into your home or show
up at your grocery store would be extremely weird. The
characters often get killed off by these zombies. They have grown used to being around them,
and have transformed their lives into something new in order to live with them
around.
Another thing that I found weird was the things
the people worried about. Of course, everyone had concerns about their
dead family members, where food was coming from, and staying safe but there
were other smaller things that bothered people too. The character Glen
was concerned about dying a virgin. One of the mothers was more concerned about
who the neighbor was sleeping with than her own children. Lori was
concerned when they ran out of pears because she didn't like peaches. It
was an odd juxtaposition to have these trivially human concerns against the
backdrop of the destroyed and diseased country.
-Amanda
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