Warm Bodies

It seems as though the zombies and the people in this story (all of which are considered human still) establish a greater sense of individuality through the novel the farther away they get from an establishment or an industrialized structure. In part 1, R begins to think even more, to have more emotions, to have certain feelings again like "getting buzzed" and the desire he has for Julie with the more time he spends with her. His sentences become longer, and his speech becomes better as he is more able to communicate more in depth with Julie. In the very beginning, R has a sort of Transcendentalism point of view in life, in that life or death doesn't really matter, nothing is different, nothing has changed, and humans just move through the motions of whatever phase of existence they are in with a routine. But when he eats the memories of Perry, his mindset changes and he takes Julie back with him and sort of selfishly indulges in complications and different things about life besides repetitions and easy going days. He doesn't like the mundane and not unique life that everyone shares at the airport and he experiences a difference when he is around Julie and becomes more of an individual in the crowd. Perry as a contrast becomes less individualistic because he becomes more involved in a structured routine and eventually gets to the point where he welcomes death because life is not worth living anymore and feels there was no further point in it at the time R kills him.