Rot & Ruin is a fiction novel written by Jonathan Maberry, set in the post-zombie apocalypse. The novel was released in the United States September 2010. 14 years after the zombie outbreak, this book follows Benny Imura five months after he turns fifteen as he looks for a job so that his rations won’t be cut in half. This is a third-person narrative that follows the protagonist, Benny Imura. Benny is 15 years old pale, somewhat skinny, has brown hair, and dark green eyes. Benny needs a job to live in Mountainside, a town in the Sierra Nevadas in Central California, and reluctantly joins his half-brother, Tom Imura, in the zombie-hunting business and discovers the reality of the business. It is not much to explain on how the world views Benny. they just see him as a small average person. He does not truly stand out in Mountainside as an important person. Most of the town (outside of his friends) only know Benny because of his older brother Tom. Most people view me in the exact same way they would view Benny. I don’t truly stand out in society. The world would just accept me as the average teenager going …show more content…
through high school. Outside of my main group of friends, I usually am ignored by the rest of the people that surround me. Benny is not interested in going into his older brother’s business, yet he reluctantly agrees to train as a zombie killer with his big brother, Tom. He anticipates a long boring job, destroying zombies for cash. What he discovers is a vocation that will teach him what it really means to be human. As his worldview is challenged over and over by the lessons he learns from Tom, Benny is forced to confront another terrifying reality: Sometimes the most horrific monsters are human. I view the world as cruel, savage, and unwilling to work together. If a zombie apocalypse were happen now. this world would be in for a rude awakening. The way civilization would be ravished, torn and ripped to shreds without mercy. The undead would claim the earth without hesitation, fueled by an unending hunger that would never be satisfied. All throughout the story, Benny does change an extreme amount.
He sees much less black and white and understands that it’s more of a gray world around him. He is more skeptical of people and understands places and no longer accepts everything at face value. In the great Rot & Ruin, Benny finds out that there are two types of danger, – the mindless unknowing zombies and the deliberate nonuse of mercy from fellow bounty hunters, Charlie Mathias and the Motor City Hammer. The conflict unravels with Benny learning about someone called the “The Lost Girl”, an almost feral teenage woman, who has been living out within the Rot and Ruin all by herself, killing zoms in a very odd and peculiar way. Benny is fascinated upon learning about her, but she knows too much about someone’s secrets and everyone who may have any idea of where the Lost Girl is hiding is now in
danger. I feel like I would possibly deal with the conflict in the same way Benny would. I would be skeptical of everything around me until I completely understood how the world was. Eventually I would have no choice but to start analyzing the world for what it is if I want to survive. Understanding the two types of dangers is key. The obvious amount of undead walking the earth, and the mass of of living people who live in unpredictable times. I feel that if i could live in the same world as Benny, I think we would be great friends. We have a large amount of qualities in common. Benny is a great reflection of who I am and vise versa.
In Lisa Nocks article appropriately titled “Frankenstein, in a better light,” she takes us through a view of the characters in the eyes of the author Mary Shelly. The name Frankenstein conjures up feeling of monsters and horror however, the monster could be a metaphor for the time period of which the book was written according to Nocks. The article implies that the book was geared more towards science because scientific treatises were popular readings among the educated classes, of which Shelley was a member of. Shelley, whose father was wealthy and had an extensive library, was encouraged to self-educate, which gave her knowledge of contemporary science and philosophy, which also influenced Frankenstein as well as circumstances of her life.
The novel sets up for Kristina’s destruction when she goes to New Mexico to see her father. There she meets Adam, (also known as Buddy), a boy with an addiction to crack. Adam turns into her first love interest and in becoming more interesting and daring, Kristina begins to morph into Bree. Such causes her to have occasional internal wars with herself on what is right and wrong, since while Kristina does not welcome change, Bree does. Furthermore, one night Bree is in charge and Adam introduces her to the monster. She states that she has never felt anything near amazement like that in her life, hence falling in love with the drug and bringing the addict...
In the film, after Tom and Judy’s car explodes, Ben is left to fend for himself in the middle of the group of zombies. The zombies encroaching on Ben from all sides is reminiscent of a lynch mob. They loom in on Ben from all sides, trying to rip his flesh off. In retaliation, Ben uses a torch to fend off the zombies and run to the house. The zombies are white oppression; the mindlessness and murderous nature of the zombies is similar to the blind stupidity, violence, and sheep-like mentality of
The Winchester brothers dealt with angels and demons in “Supernatural” Season 9, Episode 21 titled “King of the Damned.” However, the main focus of the episode is the issue of control over Hell between demons Crowley (Mark Sheppard) and Abaddon (Alaina Huffman).
...oom" (pg. 100). His life was changed so drastically during that one night that he could never forget it. Through the Hero's journey, Hawthorne shows the development of Young Goodman Brown as he discovers his true nature as evil. He comes to terms with the reality that humans are evil creatures, no matter how honorable or innocent they may seem.
...ther serves to excite and stimulate our senses as we travel into the deranged mind of a killer ? offering us a unique perspective through the first person point of view. Similarly, the ending of ?Young Goodman Brown? offers a moral, but leaves the main character in a state of discord and callousness towards his wife, and his religion. The story is didactic, because the main character is punished for his transgressions. Symbolism, evident especially in Hawthorne?s allegory, and the repetition of Poe?s suspenseful tale serve to further the goals of each writer. Ultimately, Hawthorne?s Goodman Brown becomes isolated from humanity, an issue of the head and the heart, and Poe?s narrator withdraws inside himself, an issue purely of the mind. Recognizing this discord from the self and humanity is essential to understanding the behavior of these troublesome characters.
Apocalyptic literature gives people some type of hope in a time of crises. A crises could be defined as a time when people think the world is ending, a war going on, maybe even a natural disaster like a flood that wipes out everything. The 17th century was a time where apocalyptic literature helped people feel more at ease when a crisis was occurring. Many people in that time period were on the line of poor and with no power, which made it even more important to have some type of hope.
Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Analyzing a book can be a killer. Especially when it contains tons of subtle little messages and hints that are not picked up unless one really dissects the material. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a prime example.
The obsessed search for knowledge, fame and fortune can often undervalue one’s life and become the main focus of their existence. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, she proves that obsession is a dangerous aspect of the human behavior, which always results in a negative outcome, this is mainly portrayed through the protagonist of the story Dr. Victor Frankenstein, because of Dr. Frankenstein’s obsessive personality he fails to recognize the affects of his scientific experiments which eventually lead to his and his family’s death.
Mary Shelley a famous author that created Frankenstein was born Godwin on August 30,1797 in England and was daughter of famous philosopher and political writer William Godwin. Mary Shelley never got to see her mom because she died when she gave birth to Mary. Mary married a man named Percy Bysshe in 1816. She went to Lake Geneva with Byron and her lover she got inspired to to write to Frankenstein,Staying at some house and told a ghost story at lake geneva . The reason why she Frankenstein was to pass time and cause lord Byron said she should be in a competition with others to see who has the best horror story
In the novel, Frankenstein, the author, Mary Shelley, implements a prevalent nineteenth century structure called epistolary within a frame narrative to introduce a sublime story. Through Robert Walton’s letters to his sister, Victor Frankenstein’s life story, and the monster’s interjection, the author provides multiple perspectives to the plot. By allowing each character to share their story that all contain differing point of views, it enables the readers to remain interested and informed. Through the three contrasting narrators, Shelley strengthens the roles of the characters as they respectively convey their emotions and input their personal thoughts.
The next character is Young Goodman Brown himself. His name also becomes a multilayered metaphor. Being known as “young” represents Goodman Browns innocence and virtue. He is also condensed to represent his own consciousness. But, by leaving his wife, Faith, Young Goodman Brown is giving into the unconscious. "He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind" (Kelly, 191). Taking this path that closes behind him represents Young Goodman’s decent into the unconscious and his loss of innocence. On this journey he soon meets a man who is a condensation of several different factors. The man represents the devil, as well as Brown unconscious mind.
Even upon first glance, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and John Milton's Paradise Lost seem to have a complex relationship, which is discernible only in fractions at a time. Frankenstein is Mary Shelley's reaction to John Milton's epic poem, in which he wrote the Creation myth as we perceive it today. His characterizations of Adam and Eve and the interactions of Satan and God and the impending Fall seem to have almost taken a Biblical proportion by themselves. By the time that Mary Shelley read Paradise Lost, it was indeed a stalwart in the canon of English Literature, so it should not come as a surprise to the reader the it should play such a large part in her construction of the Frankenstein myth, which has become an archetypal ghost story on its own. What makes each of these narratives so fascinating to the reader is the author/authoresses' innate ability to use the ultimate struggle -- that between God and Satan (or Good and Evil) -- which in turn involves the reader in a most personal manner. The characters in Paradise Lost, which is chronologically first, and Frankenstein, seem to appear over and over as aspects of themselves and other characters. The essence of these characters is on the surface relatively bland, but when aspects of Satan start to enter Man and they reconfigure each other, the interest picks up rapidly.
Ever since it’s conception into English Literature, the captivating novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has continued to be reproduced in various ways to honor its renowned tale and its enduring moral. The original novel was published in January of 1818 and since then, the enchanting story has been extremely popular. Frankenstein has been performed many times from its first dramatic performance in 1823 to just a few months ago on Broadway (Young Frankenstein), and numerous productions in between. However, not all reproductions stay true to the original Gothic masterpiece.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a truly famous novel that has been revisited by many, as well as revised by the author in the many years since its original publication. Within this novel Shelley conveys the tragic fictional story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster that he thoughtlessly brought to life, as well as the lives of those affected by his hideous creation. Throughout the novel it is made quite apparent that the monster was not inherently evil, in fact the monster was quite benign, however through its interactions with society the monster is slowly shaped into a being that can truly be called just that, a monster. All of the aforementioned change to the monster are brought about in part by the societal standards of the time period