"Human"

Continually in class we have been talking about the concept of life: where does it begin and where does it stop? Are zombies ‘humans’? How do we determine the difference? “Warm Bodies” was supposed to be a story from the other perspective, to show that they do in fact have feelings and are human as well. Though, when you consider the character R, the only reason he seems more human is because he is acting more human. It seems that he is not changing our view of zombies and making us believe they are human, but solidifying our belief that zombies are in fact not human. R continually wants to divert away from being a zombie. Only when he starts experiencing human qualities – emotions, dreams and love – does he start to believe himself that things are changing. R exemplifies this idea that you are human if you experience these things because the only time he feels at all human if when he experiences these moments of clarity and emotion. Once he starts to distance himself from the acts that quantify a zombie, do we start to believe he is ‘human’.