layers

It seems to me that literature or writings that include the walking dead highlight the stresses of family. When put up against something so dangerous and fearsome, it really puts the ties of family to the test. Family could mean by blood or by the new family formed by a group sharing the same experience. Anyways, when the bonds and ties between people are extremely stressed by the situation, I think that is when the morals and values of a person really shine. I guess in a way, a post apocalyptic situation, or a situation completely different from what a person feels is normal, peels back enough layers of a person to show who they really are. When the boy’s grandfather died in the reading, his last thoughts were for protecting his grandson, but that changed when he turned. Zombies, the undead, or anything similar, play the role of revealing people and maybe all of it is saying that if we peel back enough layers, we are the monsters.