A sudden bite on your arm, the race of your heart knowing you are about to die and become a zombie. There is nothing your friends and family can do to save you but watch you die and become one of them. You know that someone else will get bitten and become a zombie at any minute. There is a way to avoid getting bitten by a zombie is to damaging/destroying their brain, and also by running and hiding in safety. People believe that it could happen and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a preparedness 101 on the zombie apocalypse. The world could be at risk for a zombie apocalypse.
The
Zombie apocalypse first appeared in Hattie in the 17th and 18th century where
they hauled in African slaves to work on sugar plantations. (Mariani)
The
zombie archetype, as it appeared in Haiti and mirrored the inhumanity that
existed there from 1625 to around 1800, was a projection of the African slaves’
relentless misery and subjugation. Haitian slaves believed that dying would
release them back to lan
guinée, literally Guinea, or Africa in general, a kind of
afterlife where they could be free. Though suicide was common among slaves,
those who took their own lives wouldn’t be allowed to return to lan guinée.
Instead, they’d be condemned to skulk the Hispaniola plantations for eternity,
an undead slave at once denied their own bodies and yet trapped inside them—a
soulless zombie (Mariani).
These
people became zombies because they committed suicide and could not go to the
afterlife. These zombies were still
slaves, trapped and soulless. They kept
out of sight, and did not harm the living.
After the 17th and 18th
century the zombie epidemic was still in Hattie with the African slaves, but it
changed a little bit, and it began in the early 1800’s . “The zombie myth folded
into the Voodoo religion” (Mariani).
The Haitians believing zombies were corpses reanimated
by shamans and voodoo priests. Sorcerers, known as bokor,
used their bewitched undead as free labor or to carry out nefarious tasks. This
was the post-colonialism zombie, the emblem of a nation haunted by the legacy
of slavery and ever wary of its reinstitution. The zombies of the Haitian
Voodoo religion were a more fractured representation of the anxieties of
slavery, mixed as they were with occult trappings of sorcerers and necromancy.
Even then, the zombie’s roots in the horrors of slavery were already facing
dilution (Mariani). These people became zombies because of religious practices or
magic of shamans and priests.
These
zombies are different because they are not just slaves who committed suicide,
but they are changed by priests and shamans to more physical beings who
performed tasks. The tasks could be
wicked or criminal, so they could hurt other people. These zombies were more feared.
“There
is some speculation that the word zombie derives from West African languages – ndzumbi
means ‘corpse’ in the Mitsogo language of Gabon, and nzambi
means the ‘spirit of a dead person’ in the Kongo language” (Luckhurst).
Examples
of the zombie epidemics are the walking Dead TV show that comes on every Sunday
night at 8pm. It is about a group of people lead by Rick who live
during/survive the zombie apocalypse.
They live in the state of Georgia. Almost every episode, they kill zombies and
try to survive one more day on the planet Earth. Along the way, they run into
some bad people, and some of the people in the group die by the bad people or
they get bitten by a zombie. Rick lost his wife during the zombie apocalypse. He
has a son named Carl, and a daughter who is 2 years old.
The zombies on the show are slow moving and moan
a lot during the show. It takes the people anywhere from a few minutes to
several hours to become a zombie. At any minute, anyone on the show can be
bitten by a zombie and become one. Sometimes, everywhere you look, there is a
zombie walking towards you, and you have to kill them all. These people became
zombies because they were bitten by other zombies. These zombies are infected
with some kind of virus or illness. They are attracted by loud noises and
people, and follow people when they see them.
The
last example is that interest in zombies began
Only in the 20th Century, after America occupied Haiti
in 1915, that these stories and rumors began to coalesce around the ‘zombie’.
American forces attempted a systematic destruction of the native religion of
Voodoo, which of course only reinforced its power…American pulp magazines of
the 1920s and ’30s were increasingly full of tales of the vengeful undead,
climbing out of the grave and chasing down their killers. There are many movies that have zombies in them (like Resident
Evil, World War Z, Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies, and Zombieland) (Luckhurst).
Zombies
became meaner and more to be feared. They purposefully chased and attacked
people, not for religious purposes, but just because they are infected. These zombies are not controlled by other
people, but by the disease they have. They have not committed suicide but have
been changed by being bitten by other zombies.
The
zombie apocalypse has changed a lot since the 17th and 18th century. Zombies changed from being soulless slaves
who did no harm to being controlled by priests and shamans to do evil
tasks. Then they became controlled by a
disease and became more vengeful on their own.
Religion does not play a part in modern day zombies.
There
are several solutions to surviving the zombie apocalypse. There is not a cure or vaccine to stop the
zombie apocalypse and the only way to survive the zombie apocalypse is to kill
the zombies in the head or avoid the zombies for as long as you can.
The
first way to survive the
zombie apocalypse is to damage or destroy their brain. The
second solution is to avoid the zombies for as long as you can. One solution is to buy a boat. Zombies can’t
swim:
“Zombies can't swim. Buying a boat will enable you to get away from land where zombies are running around and fast. Even if it's a lake or pond, just make sure it's big enough to support a good amount of boats so zombies don't jump off shore and run from boat to boat. Also make sure the lake is deep enough, no one knows how fast a zombie can walk through water but experts think it's slightly faster than mortal humans” (Michaelsen).
Buying a boat is good because you can travel far enough in the water to get away from zombies since they can’t swim. Hopefully you can row faster than zombies can walk in shallow water or your boat motor allows you to travel fast. Also, you could use the motor to attack and kill the zombies that are chasing you. Also, if you get a big boat, you could live on it long enough to outlast the zombies or travel for long periods of time to find a good place to land.
Another solution is to move to a mountain, a remote area, a heavily secured building, or an uninhabited island:
Moving to a mountain is good because the reason that a home that is surrounded by snow
next to an intermediate or expert trail on a mountain will be safe from a zombie attack is
because walking up anything steeper than a green circle trail in shoes is really, really hard.
Experts are certain that zombies don't know how to put on snow shoes, their legs would break
trying to put on a pair of ski boots and they have lost the mental capacity after becoming a
zombie to know how use a boa coiler on snowboard boots. (Michaelson)
Moving to the mountains is good because snow is hard to walk on, and the zombies would have a hard time walking through snow. Zombies might freeze or at least walk slower in the snow. Also, zombies would have a harder time climbing up a slope than on flat land.
Moving to a remote area is good because
Namely, head for high ground to
seize the advantage over your enemy. However, while zombies are likely to be
predictable, this won’t be a short fight, so you would have to properly take
control of your hilltop home. Whether that means finding an unoccupied house or
building some kind of fortress, creating some sort of territory would be
essential. It would then be a case of defending that territory potentially for
the rest of your life. And not just from zombies, but from other survivors
coveting your fortuitous position. (Parrack)
Moving to a remote area is good because there are
less people and there would be less zombies. If the house is on a hill, they
will have a hard time walking up the hill to the house, and it would give you
more time to barricade the house making it hard for zombies to get into the
house.
Moving to a heavily secured
building, like a prison, is good because from The Walking Dead, they can’t
climb the thick or barbed wire walls and you can stay safe in there. Moving to
an uninhabited island is good because there is no people there on the island,
so then there would be no zombies on the island.
Whichever place you go to avoid the zombies, you will need to supplies to survive:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a preparedness 101: Zombie apocalypse document. There are all kinds of emergencies out there that people can prepare for, but are you prepared if a zombie apocalypse happens? The first thing you need is an emergency kit consisting of, water, food, medications, tools and supplies, sanitation and hygiene, clothing and beading, and first Aid supplies. The second thing they say to do is come up with am emergency plan with you family and hear are the steps (Kahn).
1. Pick a place to meet you family to regroup in case of the zombie invade you home, and a place outside you neighborhood in case you can’t make it home.
2. Make a route. If you have to leave town because the zombie won’t stop until they get food; plan where you would go.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Would conduct an investigation very similar to any other disease (1). This is what they say in preparedness 101: Zombie apocalypse document.
There’re many ways to survive the zombie apocalypse. All of the solutions are workable, but the solution that would work the best is to destroy/kill the zombies in the head. It is the only way to stop zombies rather than running and hiding. Killing/destroy the brain would stop them from moving, and there would be more of a survival chance of living.
Camus would understand the zombie because zombie represents life and death in one body. Since there is no cure for the zombie apocalypse, we should enjoy life while we are alive. Camus would say that zombies have no meaning.
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