Week 4 Respond

The book I read this week is the Monster Island. I think generally talking about the story, it is not weird at all. The story is about finding medicine in a zombie world and our protagonist is fighting for his daughter’s safe. It is pretty heroic and the zombie became a common story after the success of the Walking dead. However, the book do give people a weird feeling when reading it. I think it is because the whole setting of the book is in a kind of weird way. First, the place that our protagonist come from is Somalia. All the develop country is fallen. Our main character is trying to fight for his daughter’s place in Somalia. It is kind of ironic for me to compare to that people come from the less developed country are trying to fight for a place in developed countries now. Second, the elite soldiers that sent to the New York are groups of girl soldiers. They are trained to follow orders and not afraid to die. However, this also causes a lot problem during the journey in New York city. The immature and education cause those girls not really rational at sometimes that we and the protagonist can’t really understand. An example could be in chapter 15 and they refuse to leave but fighting against zombies. The setting of the whole book could be seen as a reverse for a organic American hero novel setting. The combination of American style story and a totally not fit background create the weird feeling.