COM 7 A06

"Warm Bodies" seem to play with the uncanny in that the zombies in the book only seem to differ in levels of flesh decay. The zombies have schools, rituals, and a form of government composed of probably the oldest and first zombies. R and M are also capable of speaking and engaging in conversation. it implies that there could be others capable of verbal communication, but they probably just dont know it and dont bother to try. like a non-gender-specific hunter-gatherer group, the hungry ones go out into the city to scavenge for their food, live humans, eat, and bring back the extra for the rest of the group that remained in the "camp". in a distant and twisted way, these zombies appear to be like the beginnings of a new civilization while the humans are the end of another. "Do you really not remember what it was like before? All the political and social breakdowns? The global flooding? Wars and riots and constant bombings? The world was pretty far gone before you guys even showed up. You were just the final judgment" (70) It seems like these zombies are less like the dead that comes barely back to life, but more like the middle ground between the living and the fully dead. To have the zombies arise as a response to the falling out of the human society is an interesting thought, especially since the zombies don't even eat animal meat, they crave the meat of living humans. there is a sort of critique on the human society and we see that in the interactions between julie and R.