Why are zombies and vampires so popular?

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    Why are zombies and vampires so popular? Television shows such as
    The
    Walking Dead
    and novels such as
    Twilight
    have inserted these once-human supernatural
    creatures into our collective subconscious. In his essay “Our Zombies, Ourselves,” James
    Parker attempts to explain why zombies are such a resonant part of popular culture. In the
    same vein (pun intended), Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, in their essay
    “Vampires Never Die”, attempt to explain why the image of the vampire remains such an
    iconic image in our minds. According to Del Toro and Hogan, “the two main branches of
    vampiric fiction” are (a.) “the vampire as romantic hero” and (b.) “the vampire as undead
    monster” (292). Del Toro and Hogan also claim that the story of the ultimate vampire,
    Dracula (originally written as a novel by Bram Stoker in 1897), is “a mash-up of ancient
    myth in conflict with the world of the present” (293).
    Your assignment is to write a four-to-five-page essay (with 1,000 or more
    words) in which you use Parker’s essay and Del Toro and Hogan’s essay to explain
    the popularity of zombies and vampires in twenty-first-century society. Please use
    quotations from both essays to support your thesis, as well as at least two pieces of
    imaginative literature (one piece of fiction, film or television show depicting
    zombies, and one piece of fiction, film, or television show depicting vampires). Your
    writing task is to synthesize these sources in order to support a thesis about the
    popularity of these two supernatural creatures.
    Your essay should have a
    title
    as well as a
    thesis statement.
    Please list Parker’s
    essay and Del Toro and Hogan’s essay as sources on your essay’s works cited page.
    After answering the above questions as part of the prewriting process, develop a
    thesis statement. Consult the chapters on analysis and comparison and contrast essays in
    your Kennedy book for more help. The final draft essay must be typed and double-
    spaced, on white paper. Relax and have fun with this assignment!

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