What I immediately noticed about Colson Whitehead’s Zone One is his use of kairotic time similar to what we had read in “The Albertine Notes”. However, unlike “The Albertine Notes,” the use of kairotic time is easier to follow in Zone One. There is no concept of chronological time in “The Albertine Notes”; instead days are marked by events such as before Albertine or after the blast. In Zone One, events still play a big role in marking time, but there is still a sense of chronology. Whitehead emphasizes the before and after by adding a sense of nostalgia of New York pre-apocalypse.
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Gender Roles in 28 Days Later
I thought that the article we had to read today about the three films was very interesting because it is very similar to what I want to write about for my final paper. The film I thought of the most was 28 Days Later because of the similarities to The Walking Dead. Continue reading
