Assignment 1-4-2: Written Analysis 1

            My popular culture topic is The Walking Dead television show.  It is a television show on AMC about what the world would be like after a zombie apocalypse. Although I don’t believe that zombies exist, some people do and there are even books that are available that tell you how to survive a zombie apocalypse.  There are many different myths that are related to zombies. 

One of the biggest myths that come up with zombies is that a zombie is your biggest threat.  “Humans are a much greater threat in a zombie plague than the undead horde itself. Zombies don’t possess a human’s ability to think, plan, plot, scheme, double-cross, negotiate, or cheat” (Top six myths about zombies).  If a zombie apocalypse were to happen, it would be ideal if everyone could be trusted, but in reality everyone would be looking out for themselves and their family; they would do anything to survive.

This myth is shown in The Walking Dead many times.  There is one example from the show that shows what someone will do in order to help their family survive.  One of the characters gets shot and needs some medical supplies from the high school nearby in order to survive.  Two other characters go to the high school to get the medical supplies, but come to find that the high school is overrun with zombies.  One of the characters at the high school ends up shooting the other character in order for him to distract the zombies and get away with the medical supplies.

Although zombies don’t exist, I feel like this show has given me a lot of insight as to how to survive if zombies did exist.  If it came down to it, I’m not sure that I could do what the character from the show did; but then again, I haven’t been put in that situation and I wouldn’t know what I would do until I was in that situation.