Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Warm Bodies(Blog #7)

Before going into anything too detailed about the novel, I'd just like to say that it was a very enjoyable read. Marion is able to display humor and discuss central and important themes simultaneously. A few themes arrise in the novel "Warm Bodies," however the important topics that Marion touches upon are themes of memory and themes of humanity. Through out the novel, we see that "R" the narrator transforms from a nobody to a somebody by engaging in human like qualities. For instance, when R kills Perry and saves his brain to have memories, R wishes to become more human. Memories are what define us, and without memories, there seems to lack of purpose in living life anymore. I thought Marion's message about humanity was interesting because when he introduced this "medicine-less" healing of zombies, he's basically saying that "zombie-ness" is not a mental condition, but a state of mind. When R chooses to interact with Julie, to consider his existence, and not follow his instinct, he is able to regain back his human-like qualities. This critique plays on the modern issue of today's society. People tend to lose the ability to relate to one another, and because of that lost relationship/communication, we get a result of a destructive society.

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