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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post How Hard Is Perfect? in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoIn Zone One, Mark Spitz deals with a feeling of mediocrity throughout his childhood and adult life. He describes himself as a B-student, always meeting just the minimum to scoot by without worry of failure or high […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post A Dream Turned Nightmare in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoAs a child I was always interested in novels based around worlds of fantasy and science fiction, anything that showed a spark of magic amidst the boring world of reality. I spent my time reading of heroes […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post Straggler to Skel in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoIn this post I want to discuss a specific incident in Zone One and try to understand what this scene could mean. The scene I’m looking at is the fortune teller scene, here’s a quick recap: While on their duty of […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post Dystopian Religion in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoAs we read dystopian novels dredged in death or oppressive government regimes, religion is brought up. Because of the mass amounts of death and negativity found in an apocalyptic world, we are not only faced with […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post Food in Fiction in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoI’ve found a connection between Clay’s Ark, Zulus, and Zone One: food. In all of these novels, humans have to deal with alternatives to the plethora of foods we have available in any modern supermarket or gro […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post Humor In Humanity in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoOne thing I noticed and enjoyed in Zone One was Colson Whitehead’s ability to convey humor amidst the dreariness and dystopia of the apocalypse. He implements humor in his characters through games like “Solve the […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post Zone One & Morality in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoAs I read Zone One and learn more about the Stragglers, I am faced with the morality of killing them. There are three groups in this novel; the humans, the Stragglers, and the Skels. The Skels are the zombies who […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post What Is Hobbling? in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 10 months agoBlake, in Clay’s Ark, finds his daughters and self captured by the car family in Present 22. He awakes in a dark room to find himself restrained by plastic cuffs and fears he may be “hobbled” (page 575). While […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post Acknowledging Death in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 11 months agoDeath is a common occurrence: it happens every day, every person will have to deal with the death of someone they know and, at some point, death will happen to every person on earth. In Zulus, Sue Kabnis as […]
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Reilly Liberto wrote a new blog post The Unnamed Dead in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 12 months agoChapter five of Harriet Washington’s Medical Apartheid opens with a description of the disappearance of Casper Yeagin, whose body was donated to the Howard University Medical School for anatomical dissection (as l […]
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