Fishing blog

The best thing about English II Honors this year was the class room environment. In class, you were able relax and joke around while getting your work done. It was great that Mrs. Aalbers was able to take part in the joking around and in my opinion that is what really brought the class together during group work. I think that fifth period was a great class and I am really going to miss it. The only really bad thing about class was that we didn't get to finish the year together due to this Corona virus. The essays could be challenging at times, but Mrs. Aalbers was always there to help and made it easier to understand and complete. The only thing I would have changed is what we did after each essay. Instead of jumping straight into something new, I wish we would have taken some time to look over the graded essays, and then done some grammar work. I feel that punctuation errors were the most common errors that all of us made on essays. I do not believe we learned enough about grammar...

The ending of Zone One really caught me of guard.  I didn't expect Mark Spitz to get infected by the plague. Nor did I expect the barricade around Zone one to fall. Mark was almost always cautious. Mark was assigned to patrol with Omega unit in Zone one. Mark and Omega unit were patrolling with Bravo unit who they met up with the day before when they became surrounded by Skels. Mark, in fear for his life ran off towards camp. While running Mark got trapped by the Skels. It shocked me that Mark was trapped and infected by the Skels just outside of the camp that was supposed to be impenetrable being destroyed by the Skels. The author decided to withhold information about the governing body being corrupted until about halfway through the book when Omega unit found out that the Lieutenant had died. I didn't find any cliff hangers at the end of any chapters throughout the book. 

I believe Zone One qualifies as a dystopian. In the book everybody is living in a dehumanized state. They are forced to live in survival camps and work there. The survival camps in exchange say they offer protection from the infected. If you don't live in a survival camp you live in a baron wasteland of death. The military and sweeper units fight to free the world by  exterminating zombie like humans that have become infected. The sweeper units are often groups of three who have little protective equipment for when they get attacked by the zombie like humans. If a sweeper gets bitten then they will most likely die or loose a limb. These are the reasons I believe Zone One is a dystopian.

In Zone One the conflict is introduced as man vs. nature. A pandemic has hit causing many people to fall ill and die. When they die they become zombie like creatures that basically prey on living people. If they get a hold of someone that is alive they try and eat them. If one of the zombie like creatures bites or scratches a living person then that person will most likely become infected and die. Mark Spitz is a sweeper who has to go around New York and exterminate these zombie creatures and rescue the living. He puts his life on the line every time he comes into contact with a zombie. Mark could easily become infected.