Monster Island week 4 blog                                                                              MLee

In the novel, its weird and new to me to have an intellectual zombie and for some reason the world seems to react realistically if there was a large epidemic that conveniently wipeout the countries that were advance like U.S.A., UK, etc. It seems so believable that the third world countries could rise to the occasion due to the fact that they were ready and prepare in an already hostile environment. I find it fascinating that we get a somewhat logical reasoning to how a zombie function from an inside scoop of the self aware zombie; Gary who is still human in the mind but has the body and instincts of a zombie and maybe even more since he is able to communicate to the zombie making him probably the most valuable person for either the humans or the zombies depending on which side he feels will be to his advantage. The fact that the story has a self-aware zombie that doesn’t realize that he could be stronger than a normal human is strange, so far in the sixteen chapters. He hasn’t realizes his abilities what could be possibly the second best power in a zombie apocalypse to communicate and control the living dead. It seems weird to me but it is probably normal that there is no explanation to what specifically cause people to turn into zombies and why now(so far in beginning of the novel).

Coming from an American, I feel I understand the main character that is not used to children army, bloody deaths and one's lack of safety, that people like us who live in an "advance" civilization are soft and still very vulnerable and naive to the harsh reality. This may be an indication that if there was a real epidemic, example like World War 3, it would be the end of the world with the major countries gone and only a few sections of third world countries would barely surviving. We are ignorant in our belief that we can escape the harsh reality, that in real life many under-develop countries around the world cannot afford to do. I find that the way humans deal with the zombie crisis in the novel more interesting than the actual epidemic that the way humans' interactions seems to question the functionality of our advanced civilization.  

Cabin in the Wood is like all the nightmares are real it seems like the twist that the main characters would rather everyone die than let themselves be the sacrifice when either way they die either by the end of the world or as sacrifice. It is also weird that the facility that contains the main characters and monsters were not able to control the kids and the kids easily released all the nightmare monsters out. The fact that all nightmares are real and that the world has to do a specific ritual for every country seem unreliable since the preschool Japanese school kids were able to defeat the monsters.