Kelvin Michaca
Dr. Hall
English 1101
November 18 2018

Monsters Live, Not Only Among Us but Within Us

Imagine living in a world where there’s Monsters. Well let me tell you this, we already live in a world where there are Monsters. However it’s not only the Monsters you know like Dracula, Barefoot, and Zombies, it’s us instead. Monsters live, not only among us but within us! We sometimes have irrational actions. If you think about it Monsters are figures who are frightening and abnormal. Monsters are also something we fear, so we can consider diseases and criminals as monsters or even yourself.
Our fear is what considers what is a monster. In the article “My Zombie, Myself,” Chuck Klosterman states, “When we think critically about monsters, we tend to classify them as personifications out of what we fear”. Klosterman is saying that, when we think about monster we are always considering them as evil, big ugly creatures but that’s due to your fear overcoming us and describing them in a negative way. For example something as a dog can be considered as a monster. Most Pit bulls are considered as monster due to social media showing the bad side of them which puts fear into people.
Almost everyone describes criminals as Monsters. They are known as monsters due to their irrational actions. In movies you can hear people call a criminal that has harmed their family or robbed them, a monster. Criminals are people who are trying to get money in a easy way which illegal. They try to rob a store or person at first but once things go south it sometimes ends up bloody. Our emotions and mind tell us to consider them as monster. With the definition of a monster a criminal fully suits it. They are frightening people who are abnormal.
How do you think zombies become zombies? The become a zombie by a virus. According to a college student “Humans turn into a zombie from a Solanum Virus”. This shows that he was a human once till he got infected by a virus and is now treated differently. We live in a world where we can get infected by a virus and catch a disease. The fear within us causes us to portray whatever or whoever carries the disease or virus a monster. We call zombies a monster due to them having a virus we don’t want to be infected by. I mean I wouldn’t want to be infected by one. A common disease we have today that is contagious is the flu. I remember as a kid the flu was taken serious by my classmates. Some kid wouldn’t sit next to his friend because he had the flu. He stared at him as if he was a monster. The kid would tell him to go away because he didn’t want to be infected as well. So we consider people with diseases as monsters because of our fear being a infected.

This is the Solanum virus which can be transmitted when bitten by a zombie or scratched.

Going back to when I stated the kid was calling his friend a monster because he had flu, this only shows one point of view. Now if we look at the other kid point of view who was being called a monster, I’m sure he thought the same about kid that was avoiding him. He was afraid the way the other kid was acting towards him because of the flu.So the whole point of that was that we can’t only look through one point of view because we all have a monster inside us but we are to blind to see it. So it’s better to look through two points of view. If we think about animals think of us as Monsters. We are slaughtering and eating them. They should definitely be afraid of us and have the mentality to look at us as monsters. That is what we think is a monster is anyway, right?

As we can see in this picture the apes consider us humans as monsters in the movie and view them as monster.  So they are going to war.

Bibliography:

Harris Michelle. “Zombie Facts”
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall09/harris_m/anatomy.html
Klosterman, Chuck. “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead.”
The New York Times, 3 Dec. 2010,