Warm Bodies

I am immensely enjoying Warm Bodies as a novel. I think of it as an easy, lightheart-ed read with tons of gore because it is at its core: the tale of impossible love. What I found most interesting about the novel was the fact that R is struggling to find his identity amidst the chaos, even though he and most of the world is dead. I love how the brains of living humans provide a high for the zombies, allowing them a chance of glimpsing what life could have been. I noticed how the abduction/taking of Julie is quite similar to the rape of Persephone. Whether there is any connection or not, through my reading of the novel, R is acting as "Hades" struck by the potency of the brains - struck by an arrow by Cupid - of Julie's dead boyfriend, wanting to protect/take Julie from her people. And like the myth, Julie is struggling but afraid of the strange zombie, R. She has needs that R struggles to full quite like how Hades tried to convince the increasingly depressed Persephone to cheer up. It's kind of cool in my opinion that a novel such as this one is able to incorporate the ideas of transformation and family.