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Brief History of the Dead - Quotes & Comments

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Brief History of the Dead - Quotes & Comments

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Brief History of the Dead - Quotes & Comments

“There were places in the city where the crowds were so swollen you could move without pressing into some arm or hip or gut. As the numbers of the dead increased, these areas become more and more common.” (12)

S) The main issue/point that makes the book’s society different is the fact that the citizens of “The City” just stay alive if one person still remember that they are still alive on Earth. They are called “the dead-but-not-forgotten”. Besides it, another big problem and also a turning point in the book’s plot is a virus. A lethal virus just came to the city, and consequently it makes its population start to decrease. It creates a kind of contrast between the beginning of the book, where the population and the city started to grow, and then the people who remembered the ‘departed’ die, they start to vanish and the city starts to get emptier and emptier. This fact is affecting the quote cited. The places where the dead-but-not-forgotten used to stay and make the place crowded would be avoided by the population. But as the population started to decrease, these place were becoming more and more common for the citizens and there were no more dead there and no more reason to avoid these places.

“The people of the city flowed around him like water around a stone, and finally he gave up and went home and sat on the edge of his bed, and he watched the shadows as they shifted across the floor of his room…” (110)

(A) Coleman chooses to act this way, giving up of getting out of his home and trying to walk around the city because there was a large concentration of the people classified as “dead-but-not-forgotten” out of his place. This kind of people are definitely avoided by the citizens of ‘The City’, when they are not a relative of them. The reason why they are rejected this way is because they are just like zombies. They act like zombies. And living with zombies is not pleasant for people. But why do they still keep these “zombies” or “dead-but-not-forgotten” in the city, if they are disturbing the alive citizens? The explanation is because the familiars or relatives of these kind of people didn’t forget them and don’t them to vanish from their lives, even though they act like zombies. They want to keep this people in their memory. And they will not leave or disappear until everybody who remembers them dies, or just forgets.

“There was a heaviness to the girl’s features that made him wonder if she might be a bit feebleminded. He used his gentlest voice to ask her, “Do you know about Jesus Christ?” (111)

(R) In this novel, there are several references to religious and other social aspects subject. Some acts before

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