Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

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Zombies have established a hold on the people of the twenty-first century. There are books, movies, TV shows, and video games about zombies. AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is a TV show about a group of people trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. While fans of the show may already love zombies, some fans watch the show with little knowledge on what zombies really are. Matt Mogk’s “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies” is a book that is written to inform readers on everything they would want to know about zombies. According to Mogk, zombies need a new definition in the dictionary because the modern zombies are more than just corpses brought back to life through witchcraft. Mogk wrote the book for a wide audience, it was meant be interesting to fans of zombies, and informative to the general population while also educating people at the same time. While it is very difficult to write a book for such a large audience, Mogk effectively appealed to his wide audience through the use of evidence and analysis for everything about zombies.
Section one of Mogk’s “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies” is about “Zombie Basics”. In the first chapter of the book, Mogk introduced the definition of the word “zombie” out of the Oxford English Dictionary. According to the Oxford English Dictionary a zombie is “a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religion” (Mogk 5). After this definition Mogk states that a modern zombie are defined by three elements “(1) it is a reanimated human corpse, (2) it is relentlessly aggressive, and (3) it is biologically infected and infectious.” (Mogk 6). In the rest of section one, Mogk gives more basic facts about zombies and the origins of the mode...

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...e the book “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies” to argue that modern zombies needed a new definition, but he achieved more than just his goal. Mogk defined what he believes the modern zombie is, and he effectively argues why zombies are important. Mogk targeted a very wide audience, but he was able to appeal to that audience because he effectively used qualified evidence and backed the evidence up with a clear analysis. “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies” is a very informative book and it taught the readers many facts about zombies and important tips on how to survive in an emergency. While zombies have not made an appearance in reality, when they do the readers of this book will be prepared to survive the zombie apocalypse.

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Mogk, Matt. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies. New York: Gallery Books, 2011. Print.

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