Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Boneshaker Question
Overall, I enjoyed the novel and thought it was one of the coolest settings I've read in a while and agree that it should be adapted into a movie. I did have one question though: the story hinted early on that living within the city walls is near suicidal (and even life in the outskirts is pretty illogical), yet no compelling reason is ever provided for why the residents stay. It's apparently not too difficult for humans to leave the city. Yet many citizens have spent a decade or more running for their lives from the zombies while being manipulated by a mad professor. I know the setting is an alternate history where the civil war rages on, but America is a big and open country in the late 19th century. People set out for the plains and southwest on a regular basis. Yet cleaning contaminated water all day or relying on filter masks to step outside is the best existence these people can imagine? Maybe it's just their desire to cling to their homeland and that they're too stubborn to leave. Can anyone else see this more clearly? I might have skipped over it, but it did get me thinking for a while. See everyone in class!
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THIS. That was the most counter-intuitive part of the book for me. They talk about scavenging and fighting for their niche in the world, and they even have pleasant underground bars with shitty beer made out of noxious zombie-gases. They reference staying at one point because the scavenging, but for me, they were really just saying "If we try really hard and fight for our lives, we can live in a city that's only really shitty instead of dangerous," except it was totally dangerous.
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