"Help...exhume?". Entry Three

This entry covers pages 102-154

Step two. Taking.

We have all heard the expression "if you want it, you can have it", but that's not true. Of course we might want or wish from all heart to enter Harvard, to fall in love, to become millionaire but if we don't do anything to achieve this dream, we will not come not even near to it. We have to take it.

   For a short moment in the book, Julie lives R behind. She is going home; never the less R is not ready to say good bye. I think that for R, living Julie behind means also to leave his opportunity to re-emerge from the death behind, and now that things are changing not only for him but for "M" also  (his best friend) and even more zombies, that's not a choice. He is going after her, and everything that she means.

 "...and we'll see what happens when we say yes while this rigor mortis world screams no"(pg 113)

R wants to change, to safe everything that's left saving. To help Julie, and he is going to do it. Now things are really going somewhere. The first two parts I read of the book were just introduction and R's self-recognition. Now he is going for it, risking his "life". Its now clear that they want to do something about and that's what this third section of the book is about: to do something, Bush as Perry's dad once golf him: "There's no benchmark for how life's 'supposed' to happen, Perry. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it". Julie have now accepted that what she sees is what she gets, there's no way that things are going to reverse some how and that's really important because now that she has accepted that, Julie can begin to do something with that situation.

  This part is really important because is when thing are begging to change, the confortable static situation they were living is now fading and risks are being taken. 

   R is more alive that he has ever been since all this zombie-mess started, he once actually felt cold, he speaks more fluently, he smells a little bit less and moves faster. He is also more in love that he has ever been (even if he doesn't says anything about it) "-you're... alive- I mumble into her hair - You're...worth living for" (pg. 153)  I believe that this is a really  REALLY weird love story, but also one of the best ones. If you see it in a more deep way, and not just superficially, you can say that love actually can bring someone back from the death, make them feel alive; and that's what Julie, with out knowing it, did to R. That's what makes this couple one of my favorites: it's not the typical, all wear out love story with the typical "macho" and the good girl that falls for him and have all this superficial problems until they AMAZINGLY realize they are made for each other. No. This is so much better, and how's narrated just makes it more enjoyable.

   The few zombies that began to change, M and R have a plan and it has started:
 "I go over the plan in my head. It's not much of a plan, really. It's cartoonishly simple, but here's why it might work: it's never been tried before. There has never been enough will to make a way" (pg. 116) That's actually really amazing and unexpected also. If you really stop to think about all this, you realize that the ones that are so tired with the situation, the first ones that actually have come up with a solution and the first ones to start the change are not the humans. Are the zombies: the main cause of why the world is what it is in that moment. The exhumation has began. 

Finally:

 One character I have not talk about a lot, but it's actually really important is M. M is just the voice of all of the other zombies that still not have one, and all of what he says (or tries to) can be resume to one word: desperation. He and all of the others are desperate to change, just as R once was. They are changing, memories are coming back and also the consciousness of the emptiness inside them. At least humans are still humans, still alive, still feeling (not matter what) but they are not as hollow inside as zombies are. And that's very clear in this section of the book. "You've...felt. Do you know...what it is?" (Pg. 105) Not only R is fighting, everyone around him is.

Vocabulary:

   I. Groggy: exhausted, weakened. 
         She looks groovy, still half-asleep





   II. Stoic: no expression at all. Unmoved by joy or grief
          His face is stoic, but her eyes are damp








  III. Sated: to be satisfied. Fully:
         Im balanced precisely between hungry and sated

IV. Sprawling: To be distribute in an unnatural or ungraceful mane
         The sprawling slums of Brazil





V. Soggy: Soaked, wet.
          Her cloth still soggy from yesterday's rain