![]() Can we read this aspect of the text as a meta-commentary on other zombie texts, and readers’/viewers’/gamers’ participation in those texts? Whitehead draws our attention to this feature of the typical zombie narrative by telling us that every member of Mark’s team sees something different when they kill stragglers, projecting their own worst enemies onto their targets-Mark sees himself (213-4). ![]() ![]() In many books, films, and video games, zombies are easy targets: people can kill them without thought, specific motive, or moral repercussions. ![]() To what extent is the zombie a dead metaphor (ha!) for an unfulfilled person or a mindless consumer, and is Whitehead successful in giving this metaphor new life? The “straggler” makes it easy for Whitehead to emphasize the similarities between literal zombies and metaphorical zombies stuck in their routines. ![]()
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