What I find the most interesting about the zombies in Warm Bodies besides the fact that they can become alive again, as evident with R's gradual transformation into a Living person, is the fact that the zombies can literally consume the Living's memories when they eat the brain. When they eat the brain they get flashes of the Living person's life. And eating the brain and seeing these memories seems to be the favorite part for most zombies. R likes it, saying that biting into the brain makes his head "...light up like a picture tube" (p. 7). These memories hold remnants of someone's life and these zombies can see what their victim's life was like. Zombies being able to see these memories is kind of like a compensation for not being able to remember their own lives. And I think its these memories that probably helps them hold onto what little "life" they have as a zombie.
As is evident from R becoming the Living, these zombies are in a kind of limbo. They aren't exactly full dead nor fully alive. They are given a choice if they want to become human again. R was determined to keep from attacking so this helped his transformation into becoming alive again. He had to embrace change to allow this to happen. It was eating Perry's brain and meeting Julie which influenced R to change.
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