Learning about Zombies

Nyomi Mosley

Cline

ENG102

20 November, 2011

Whenever I read something I expect to be educated. Call it what you will but I expect whatever I read to be worth my while, and in order to that to happen I need to learn something from it. I found that the first chapter in the book called “American Zombie Gothic” was interesting and I learned a lot about Zombies. It was great to know that there are so many movies about zombies. Such as: Planet terror, resident evil, 28 days later, and so on. I have seen a few of the ones that Bishop mentioned but I was still shocked when I read about all the ones that were mentioned. I also found it interesting when it was mentioned that the times that movies were made were related to how the movies were made during that time period. I must admit that somewhere deep in the back of my head I knew that but I never really realized how true it was until after I read this chapter. Through various parts bishop points out many movies that relate to certain time periods and zombies. I was surprised by the fact that Zombies have no origin. He mentioned how all of the other fictional characters have an origin except all except for zombies. As I was reading through that part I started to think to myself about all the fictional characters I knew about and their origin. Cinderella originated from the book I read as a child as did all of the princess characters. Jack and Jill originated from that little rhyme I knew when I was younger. The wizard of Oz characters originated from the movie I watched when I was younger and still watch today; just for fun. All of the characters that I thought about had an origin. All except for the Zombies! It was really interesting to me how all of the points that Bishop made were very well supported. I also found that Bishop really researched his points this made his essay believable. I can defiantly say that this chapter was very well written. By the end I felt as if I had just been fully educated on something I knew nothing about before I started reading.
Here is the link for the picture:
http://www.zombieseverywhere.org/2011/08/story-time.html