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Our lives are driven by a set of morals that we call values. Values move us, they prevent ordinary people from committing atrocities.That sense of right and wrong, it makes us human. People are raised differently than others, but for the most part, we understand that killing another person is wrong. However, in the most extreme of case, killing another person may be necessary to achieve overall good and peace. In the book The Girl With All The Gifts we find a dilemma. The living are now the dead, but they walk about, and they are hungry. We find a group of dynamic characters, huddled together in a close space for years at a time. There are tensions, opaque ideals, compromised morals, and shady values. All of the conflict surrounds a little girl and her struggle to live normally. In a Britain where God did not save the Queen, it comes to this, is it right to dissect one live and cognitive thinking, new, species of human, in order to save your own race? I would side with Miss Justineau. I would try and empathize with these new hybrids; these human zombies. …show more content…
Is it right to kill a “hungry” if the zombie apocalypse occurred? I say yes, it is ok to end a zombie. They are mirror reflections of themselves with the sole goal of eating anything and everything that walks and breathes. However, this book brings a new aspect of the unlikely, yet interesting apocalypse; these zombies are cognitive, zombie, hybrids. They are part human and part zombie. It is almost as if these hybrid children have a medical condition that they cannot control. This changes things. It makes things more complicated. On one side you have a herd of flesh eating hungries coming right for you, but than you have a child walking about in their midst. In the frenzy of battle, would you kill one? Sargent Parker would, but things changed for him when Melanie rescued him (Carey

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