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Macnabb The Zombie March

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The Zombie March

In this week’s assignment, I will reveal the title of the text that I read and what it is about. I will then describe the author’s view and the evidence presented by the author to support this view. I will then describe whether I agree or disagree with the author’s view and why.

The story I read was called the Zombie March by Brynn MacNabb. It was about a woman who firsts find her husband who died recently at her doorstep (MacNabb, 2012). After that she notices more people rising from the grave. Interestingly enough the zombies are not the traditional human devouring, brain eating ravenous simpletons. Actually, they hold conversations with woman as they pass by her house. One day she notices many zombies walking past her house on the way to Washington D.C. to march and protest. Upon the zombies return, we find out her deceased husband died again in the protest by setting himself on fire at the steps of the Lincoln memorial. Next, we discover that the zombies may have been protesting to ask for assistance to be dead again as one zombie states “We thought we were finished, and right or wrong no one could ask more of us. But we saw that the world went on, without judgment or rest. He took our hope away.” (MacNabb, 2012). …show more content…

“Fulfillment. Immortality. Love.” (MacNabb, 2012). This is also seen when the zombies speak in clear sentences and have coherent thought processes. Hence the gathering and marching upon Washington. These instances in the story lead me to believe that the author wanted to pose the question if we were zombies how would we live with ourselves? What would it be like to find a job with rotting flesh or to not be part of a society because you were

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