The Walking Dead Themes

The Walking Dead Themes

Violence

This book is called The Walking Dead so you can be pretty sure it's going to be violent. Zombies aren't big on diplomacy. They don't want to sit down to a peace talk or hug it out. If a zombie hugs...

Family

The family that gets bitten together, decomposes together. Okay, you won't see that little motto hanging on anyone's wall, but in the world of The Walking Dead, it's true. Pretty much every charact...

Courage

How would you react if you woke up and saw a zombie outside your window? Or a hundred zombies? Everybody would probably have a different reaction. Some would grab the guns they've been stockpiling...

Morality and Ethics

Most likely you wouldn't whack another person in the back of a head with a shovel if you just saw him walking down the street. If you would… we'll make sure to never turn our back on you. But wha...

Isolation

If you've ever been lonely, you know how it feels to be in a room or city full of people, but still feel completely by yourself. That kind of isolation is cranked up to eleven in a zombified world....

Fear

Zombies are scary. We don't really need to say more, but we will. There are myriad things to be afraid of in the zombie-filled world. (For example, grammar. Is it "myriad things" or "a myriad of th...

The Home

When zombies attack, you have a choice: do you stay and fortify your home against the zombie horde, or do you run, and try to find food, shelter, and safety elsewhere? Staying put is rarely a good...

Gender

Who would you rely on if zombies attacked? We'd find the person who's been hoarding guns… and hope they don't shoot us instead. But we don't think we'd care if they were male, female, or gender n...