Warm Bodies

I found it interesting that in Warm Bodies, the story was told largely from a zombie’s perspective. This was probably the first, if not only, book that had this unique perspective on the popular topic of a future zombie apocalypse. Never before has a zombie survival story been told through a zombie’s eyes, with many forms of media opting to tell zombie stories through the eyes of a human. I also found it interesting that in the story the zombies are described as to having an almost human-like society, in that like human society they have their own versions of churches, schools, and familial ties, with all of these aspects of society being told through the zombie, R’s, perspective. Isaac Marion may have chosen these unique story elements and narrative perspectives to create the sense that by any definition or word zombies could still be classified as “human,” which contrasts heavily with other stories and how they portrayed zombies. If anything, Marion depicts the zombies as more human than the human survivors themselves, especially when dealing with the interactions with R and General Grigio.