Warm Bodies

“Warm Bodies” makes a statement about humanity in several instances, and I am going to discuss how the novel brings into focus man’s desire to give meaning to life, even though it is so short. There are several instances where this issue is brought up, for example when Perry exclaims “What’s the meaning in all of that work if we are just going to disappear?” I think the answer to this question is answered when Julie explains “it’s about passing on who we are and what we’ve learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.” I think what the author, Isaac Marion, is trying to say here is that we live, so others are able to. There is no set of rules in the world stating what will make life meaningful, so we must come up with that meaning ourselves. We give life meaning, and if we just go around killing people, for example, we will have no one left to continue on to find this meaning. What’s left when we are gone is what future generations will see, and what they see makes life important, that is what will make our lives meaningful.