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Humans v. Zombies

Where does one draw the line between "human" and "zombie"? In other words, what makes us "human" and "alive"?  When we typically think of a zombie, we think of a mangled, mutilated groaning corpse that has only one main goal: to kill humans to eat their brains. A monster with no feelings other than an obsession to consume. A human, on the other hand, can feel emotions like love and anger and grief and are generally seen as much different than zombies, as humans are alive and usually don't eat other people. A living being who can genuinely enjoy the experiences life has to offer, such as creating relationships with other living beings.  "First Person Shooter" by Charles Yu challenges this idea that zombies and humans are vastly different. Yu accomplishes this challenge by having the main character have this obsession with his love interest of Janine, where the main character states that they "hate everything about her except for...