Essay 3 Assignment, Fall 2021Introduction and first stepsYour third major essay will be an analysis of one zombie film of your own choosing. You will use this film as a template for considering the connection between zombie narratives and the realities (and fictions) of the COVID era. 1. your first task will be to choose a film to analyze. There are a Lot of zombie films and tv shows, so this list is only partial, but it’s a starting point: 28 Weeks Later2. After you’ve got a film chosen, you should consider what themes or concerns in this film overlap with the themes and concerns that have emerged in our society over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, since it began in the early part of 2020, almost two years ago. Some of the overlapping areas I’ve considered are: news media, science, survival, fear of apocalypse, ethics, social isolation, breakdowns in social order, disaster, leaving front line workers exposed, social hierarchies, economic hierarchies, gender hierarchies, race hierarchies, etc…Focus on one of these themes or concerns that is identifiable in society, and in the zombie narrative. 
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3. Once you’ve got the film you want to analyze, and you’ve chosen a theme to discuss, it’s time to work on the thesis. For this paper, your thesis should make an argument to convince the reader that zombie narratives can provide insight into the way we’ve dealt with the coronavirus. I’m going to give you a sample introductory paragraph below. My statement will focus on the film The Rezort and the exploited labor of essential workers during the pandemic. Here’s the sample opening paragraph in italics, with the thesis underlined for effect: The Rezort takes place after the worst of a catastrophic zombie contagion has passed. Where zombies once roamed most of the earth, they are now confined to one island, where tourists come to shoot them for fun. The humans in this world perceive themselves to be safe, but they also enjoy the risk of coming near to and dominating the remaining zombies. This sense of safety even within a space of risk is not unlike the

sense of safety that many of us felt during the COVID pandemic, who were able to work and shop mostly from home, without much interaction with the larger world. For essential workers, though, the risk was often heightened: industries such as meat packing, grocery, and of course medicine experienced higher than average incidence of COVID spread. Alongside those of us who were living safely, there were many of us who were not only bearing higher risk, but who were dying at higher rates as well. I want to explore the way that zombie tourism in The Rezort parallels our own social and economic stratification during the COVID pandemic. The tourists in The Rezort seem cruel for torturing and murdering the infected, but during COVID we discovered that our own society was not that different: we learned to tolerate and even to accept greater suffering for a limited number of individuals who bore the brunt of the pandemic on their own backs. Reading the social dynamics depicted in The Rezort against the economic injustices of the pandemic, we’ll see just how close to the zombie apocalypse our own has pushed itself. Important features of this thesis (these are things you should aim to do with your own thesis, too): It is limited. It ties one zombie film to one issue in the pandemic. It is arguable. A reasonable person can disagree with it. It may even be a stretch to associate our society with such a brutal depiction of social order in The Rezort. It is more than one sentence. I know that some profs tell students to write a thesis in one sentence, but it usually needs more setup than that. Feel free to write a thesis of 3, 5, even 7 sentences if you find it necessary. It introduces the film formally, and discusses the COVID pandemic before the thesis. One other point about thesis statements: they typically occurs at the bottom of the first paragraph, as this allows you to state your main argument early in the paper, and then to have plenty of time to develop and support it later in the paper. Make sure that you put your thesis at the bottom of your first paragraph. That’s where I’ll be looking for it in your draft. Putting together body paragraphs, and a little bit on conducting research: Once you’ve finished your first paragraph and included your thesis, the rest of the essay is really written with the main purpose of supporting the thesis. You’ve already made your argument in the thesis, but the reader still needs to see you "prove" it or support it with citation of scenes in the film, research or citation of secondary sources, and careful reasoning and independent research. Specifically, this essay assignment also requires that you conduct research and include or cite in your paper at least one secondary source that you’ve found yourself. For the purposes of this class, your research should be done using the HCC library website and/or a physical visit to the library itself. Academic research does not include sources like Wikipedia or other information easily available on Google. You need to use the library, and learn how to use it effectively.
(You will have a tutorial on how to do research in this module, so don’t worry if right now this task seems unclear). As you develop your argument and you do your research, remember to cite your research to help you make your argument. This material MUST be quoted or cited within your essay. You can’t just do research to know more, you have to show the reader what you’ve learned by citing and quoting the research that you’ve done, IN YOUR PAPER. Usually, you should cite secondary material in the middle of a paragraph. This way, your voice leads and guides the paragraph, and you have the opportunity to comment on or elaborate on the quotation after you’ve cited it. Quotes at the beginning or ending of paragraphs detract from the development of your own voice as a writer and should be avoided.

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