For the book Zone One by Colson Whitehead, this book is talks more about the apocalypse, which took place after the most of places have been infected by a plague that transform people into zombies, which are skels and stragglers depicted in the book. And the main character in the book, Mark Spitz is a member of “sweepers”, and they tried to clean out the zombies from the Manhattan area in New York City even though none of them had any military experience, which was also known as Zone One in the book. And I notice that there is one thing about the narrative, the flashbacks of Mark Spitz. From those flashbacks, we can see that before the Zombie plague, although claiming that he was an average person, since he did not have many friends and lived …show more content…
However, there is a little bit difference between the Tell My Horse and Zone One. In Hurston’s Tell My Horse, I felt that he wanted to tell something through “Zombies” instead of just depicting how fierce they were as in other novels. But the question is what he wants to talk about? Normally, Zombies are extremely ordinary in fantasy and the kind of horror novels, and zombies usually refer to a fictional post-dead human being built through the re-born from people’s corpse. This cause origins from Haitian’s folklore. It is zombies with a unlived body re-borned through different ways, mostly are magical matters. Other contemporary depiction with the re-born of the death never necessarily involve magical matters but usually involve fictional of science approaches such as carrier, radiation, pathogens, mental diseases, and scientific accidents. This does not seem like to fulfill the case in the chapter of Zombies from Hurston’s book. As it depicted in the chapter of Zombies, “This is the way Zombies are spoken of, they are the bodies without souls, the living death. Once they were dead, and after that they were called back to life