Warm Bodies (7)

In "Warm Bodies," the story revolves around the themes of memories and possible ideas of racism? It is shown multiple times in the story that without our memories we are basically nobody. We no longer have our own identity, making us no different than anyone else. "We are just here" (4). Without any memories of our past we lack a purpose in life as a result of knowing nothing about ourselves. This says a lot about humanity because as humans, constantly look for goals to achieve is a very important quality to have. "I...find things...sometimes. But we don't...seek." In addition to this theme, I took notice to the fact that R winces whenever Julie mentions words like "humans" or "corpse" due to the reason that he feels like they are all human whether they are the "Living" or the "Dead" (42). This caused me to wonder if this idea was trying to hint about ideas of racism in our society today.