Psychological Selfishness In David Pagano's The Walking Dead

Purpose: The mindless actions carried out in the modern world are tiresome and numerous and unless it is contained, individuals will have their motivations drained until they degrade to nothing but the metaphorical concept of a zombie.

In “Why Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead” Zombies have a very big role in expanding our market with on ceilings. When the AMC The Walking Dead came out a record breaking 5.3 Million people watched the first episode. Interest in zombie movies have risen in the past 40 years. Many movies have came out about zombies but the only thing really unique is that it's not hard to kill a zombie really anyone can kill a zombie. The author explains in the reading “A lot of modern day life is exactly like slaughtering zombies .

"Disoriented", the one word Rick Grimes uses to describe the moments he has been through before reuniting with his family. In a world driven into a apocalypse, filled with the undead and anarchy, everyone's will and faith are tested. One will either be changed for worst or for the better. This essay will analyze the actions of Rick Grimes, present my ideas if I were in Ricks position, and to answer for the actions of one more character.

Zombies aren’t supposed to exist. But what if they do, and we interact with them every day? Chuck Klosterman’s essay, “My Zombie, Myself”, compares everyday life to the task of killing zombies. Through elaborate metaphors, quotes from zombie experts, and a strong call to action, he successfully appeals to pathos, ethos and logos to convince his readers. Klosterman argues that even though modern life is monotonous, it is possible to escape the monotony.

We were making our way to the doors slowly. While killing every walker in sight and range, we fought our way through the horrendous herd of walkers. Guts, flesh, and meat went flying out to every direction with every swing of the baseball bats that we had. I fancied a long pipe with scissor blades taped at the end of the pipe. The others decided to go old fashioned and just use a good old, trusty baseball bat. I’ve been dreaming of this day ever since I’ve started watching The Walking Dead. We’ve been killing walkers non stop. I was lucky enough to have found Thomas walking around the halls. Finally, the doors were barricaded, and the final battle of the second trial came close. I had to finish this. Deus and Onaga, the two deities gave me hints on where to go. I followed their wishes and went to the chorus room. Again, more danger was there. This was Olivia’s class… Why is it that everytime I go do a trial for these deities, I always end up in Olivia’s room. Chapter 9 : FROM START TO FINISH

The Walking Dead is a television show produced by AMC based off the black and white comic books by Robert Kirkman. The show and comic book center around main character Rick Grimes as he learns to cope with life after waking up from a deadly wound into an outbreak of virus wielding undead creatures known as “walkers.” Over the course of season two and season three, the show starts to center around how Rick is able to command the group of survivors and the challenges they face trying to settle down in a safe area. They are confronted with another community nearby late in season three along with the increasing number of walkers in the area. While facing these challenges, the number of surviving members continues to dwindle; however, the

Klosterman does not begin his essay by connecting zombies with technology in a negative light, but instead spends the first few paragraphs describing how zombies have risen to popularity in recent years. “Roughly 5.3 million people watched the first episode of The Walking Dead on AMC, a stunning 83 percent more than the 2.9 million who watched the Season 4 premiere of Mad Men”. Then, Klosterman explores a few ideas why zombies may have risen to such popularity (“Zombies are just so easy to kill”). Klosterman develops his essay in a logical way, first stating his claim that zombies have risen to popularity, and following up with thoughts about why that might be. Klosterman gets to his main point - “A lot of modern life is exactly like slaughtering zombies”, and then immediately dives into the similarities that zombies have with technology, such as how a war with zombies is a repetitive “numbers game”, similar in nature to “reading and deleting 400 work e-mails” or “filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork”. Here, Klosterman connects zombies with technology, noting that modern life is a lot like killing both, which helps the reader understand that technology is like an undead horde of zombies that never ends. After spending the first half of his essay building the scary and dangerous perspective of zombies, in the last paragraph, Klosterman encourages his audience to keep fighting. “But you can do this, my friend… Don’t stop believing. Don’t stop deleting”. Klosterman finally reaches his last statements where he ends on a positive note, letting the reader hope for a better future. This is important because it motivates the reader to strive for that future where “we can live better”, and be in a world where neither zombie nor technology exists to drag humans

A moral compass is difficult enough to navigate in our current society, but after the apocalypse having a clear conscious would be even more difficult. With the added complication of zombies, it would be impossible. While zombies are fictional they pose interesting moral dilemmas, to kill them or not to kill them, both choices pose moral caveats. If you were to kill them you face the dilemma of whether or not zombies have the capacity to be saved, if you let them survive you must accept the guilt that accompanies the decision, as the zombie could go on to injure others in the future.

The trait of survival is echoed throughout all animals but none quite as strongly human beings, our nature to survive has driven us to create things that we previously had thought impossible, and not always for the best. “If I had a gun, I know I would have killed him.” This illustrates the anarchic and feral nature of survival and how it can drive us to do terrible things in our own self defence. More ever, it shows that for people with good intentions often are victimised by others who are only out for personal gain. Such as Greg Sims, a previous next door neighbour of Josephine who, when confronting her in a McDonalds parking lot says “Let’s take turns in the back. I know your dying to. It’s in your blood you know.” This vile statement displays the terrible darker side of the human nature, one of lust and desire with a careless disregard for the wellbeing of

The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead, takes on the psychological study of the characters in the renown, American drama series know as The Walking Dead. The author of the book, a professor of psychology himself, is Travis Langley. In it, he describes the mentality of ones who survived and went through horrifying and traumatic experiences, i.e. a zombie apocalypse. He also focuses on the mind of the Walkers (zombies) themselves. Langley separates the book into five different sections: Waking, Responding, Dying, Walking, and Living. Aside from the fact that the author studies psychology, the book includes excerpts, opinions, and ideas from other biologists, psychologists, and professionals. One main focus of The Walking Dead Psychology:

Ever since the first zombie movie was created in 1932, there has been a constant rise of zombie appearances in popular media. Like with all monsters, the majority of zombie media aimed to represent a certain aspect throughout the society in question. Whereas vampires represented romanticism and Dracula represented how a certain social group was viewed during a certain time period, zombies in Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” aimed to create a situation whereby a group of people had to survive a night together, despite their racial tensions between one another. Being the founder of all subsequent zombie films, “Night of the Living Dead” provided a guideline for zombie behavior. As time passed, more and more versions of the zombie came out, whereby zombies stopped being a plot device and turned into the focus of the film itself. The Walking Dead, currently standing as the fourth most popular TV series, took a turn from this progression and decided to imitate Romero’s take on zombies. By including zombies which simply aimed to sustain themselves by consuming the flesh of the “live,” the creators of The Walking Dead caused the remaining survivors to gather together and rely on primitive human instinct to survive. Even though the zombies in this series run rampant, they play a very minimalistic metaphoric role. Instead, by presenting the zombies as a plot device, the characters in this series were able to demonstrate their true prejudiced view on society, ultimately revealing

Zombie and Human co-existence balanced on the edge of a blade. Both sides had gone through the Apocalypse War and were ready to expunge the other. The Zombie Zealots were a group of radicals that would use force to be free from the chokehold of Human condemnation.

Ancient Egypt and modern Egypt are drastically different in many ways, whether it be government, communication, culture, social classes, and alike, this is because Modern Egypt has become more advanced and more logical.

The American jury system is used most commonly in court, but many question if the jury system should still be included in trials. The jury system should be kept in court trials because it will ensure justice is properly made, allow citizens to be involved in the court system, allow citizens to be heard by the government, and it reviews forgotten evidence shown in court. Some American citizens are beginning to doubt the “trial by jury” aspect of court systems, but the majority still supports this system. A jury is a group of people who decide the fate of the defendant. Juries play a large role in court systems and help decide the punishment of the accused.

Throughout works of literature, authors use many different techniques to help enhance a reader’s experience. It is an author’s goal to make the work not just words on a page, but to take readers into their work as if he or she was in the context themselves. One of the ways authors can accomplish this is by using literary devices. By using literary devices, authors can develop their theme. After reading the plot is when the theme becomes more evident. Without the theme, readers are unable to connect to the work. Due to this, theme is argumentatively the most important aspect of a work. In order to determine the theme, the reader must examine the biographical, psychological, and historical aspects the author is portraying. When