In the novel "Cell" zombies take over the world. In the beginning of the book life is business as usual. The main character Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston to sell his drawings when all of a sudden the world changes. He sees people going insane, planes start crashing and car crashes are everywhere. He begins to realise that the world has been taken over by these zombie creatures. He concludes that the cause of the zombie problem is related to cell phones. Along the way he meets Tom and Alice and they become friends in this "adventure". Clay, Tom and Alice start walking and they start to begin to realise that the zombies aren't just blood thirsty savages but that there is an underlying intelligence in them.
This seems to me like a case of not understanding someone or something and trying to destroy it. People have been doing this for ages. Certain people start becoming too self aware so we lynch them. People have destroyed civilizations and chalked it up to the fact that the conquering people didn't believe the native people had any intelligence. I just think that this an interesting thing to ponder. Maybe the zombies are evil, maybe not. Maybe they are just being misinterpreted.
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