Comparison Of The Essays' Outline: Oring & America Zombie Gothic

Comparison of the Essays’ Outline Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Comparison of the Essays’ Outline The quote from Oring in the introduction of what happens next is very captivating. After reading the quote, anybody would desire to know exactly legends are made of. The quote magnifies the ability of legends as supernatural and other unimaginable capabilities; it is a quote that well thought of as the first lines of the story. In the America Zombie Gothic story, the cover pictures are scary and cannot attract many people especially for who do not like horrors. The only hook that the author used is the lines below the title ‘the rise and fall (and rise) of the walking dead' without reading the entire line someone will stop hear and wonder what is really in the book. Devos is the author of what happens next, where he portrays legends as just stories. The stories are more of myth, though according to Devos people have been made to believe the stories are true. The similarities in the two stories are that the legends and the zombies have been made real and popular through movies and human imagination, another similarity is that both the stories portray horrific stories. The difference is that legends portrayed as horrific myths, while zombie stories are true horrific stories which can cause fear and make the legends true. Legends and Zombie stories have become part of our culture Citation “Gillian Bennett affirms that contemporary legends are narratives, “stories of some sort, with a beginning, middle, and end, and traditional in that they are widely disseminated numerous times and places” (Devos XVI, 2012) Analysis: from this cited sentence it can be seen that these stories are part of human culture given since they have a beginning and an end the way a normal person is born and dies. And since the stories are repeated, they passed from generation to generation. This is also the case with gothic stories as is seen in the second citation. Citation “Gillian Bennett affirms that contemporary legends a...