Hi! Please don't forget to label your posts with the date the reading is due and your name and last name. So, for example, for the first blog post I would label my post with these two tags "09/11/2014" and "Ali Bolcakan" [without the quotes of course].

12/03/2014

The Walking Dead

After reading The Walking Dead, I was able to connect a lot of the previous texts we've read to the story.  One particular scene that stood out to me was when Lori is seen crying and kneeling on the ground after Shane punches Rick.  Lori says, "What's happening to us?" and "It's never going to be the same again.  We're never going to be normal again..."  I thought those quotes were very powerful; in any apocalyptic event, it is very hard to go back to the familiarity and comfortableness of life before.  This reminded me of Sam in The Flame Alphabet.  Sam deals with the idea of normality as well.  Towards the end of the book, he struggles to accept that Claire, Esther, and him will never have the loving relationship they once had.  The takeaway I got from reading The Walking Dead and The Flame Alphabet is that, with time, change is inevitable.  It is hard to replicate the past and if you hold on to it, it will consume you.
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  1. Anonymous12/03/2014 5:00 PM

    I think that's a very good point because that was the point where they reached the realization that nothing was going to be the same again. Another way this was conveyed was when Rick gave Carl a gun to defend himself, even though he's only 7 and how he argues with Lori about this.

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  2. Anonymous12/03/2014 5:08 PM

    I thought you made a very good connection to the Flame Alphabet. The idea of normality is persistent in texts about the apocalypse. Especially the idea of establishing the "new normal" per se. The idea of change and its inevitability is extremely important. It seems that in these situations, not allowing one's self to change with the times is often the most dangerous thing possible.

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  3. Dwight Brisbin12/03/2014 9:03 PM

    That's an excellent point and one that Kirkman makes a few times: consider Shane's breakdown towards the end where he laments losing everything he had before and having the one thing he cared about now ripped away. Both of these instances convey the power of such a realization, able to bring people to tears and to have them lash out uncontrollably. Kirkman does an excellent job of conveying this (somewhat incontestable) opinion.

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