Analyse of From one mind, into another

In the short story ”from one mind, into another,” you will hear about a man who has lost his memories after a car crash, in a zombie world. The man evolves throughout the story, and quickly takes the name Mark Jacobs. It is this developing of a new identity after amnesia, and his ability to quickly adapt to the post zombie apocalypse world, that is intriguing me in this short story. That is why I have chosen this topic to analyse in me paper. What is trigger this progression, is it the environment or a specific event, how does he evolve as a person, and how does he adapt to the world.

The story start by a man is waked up by a radio, in a turned over car. The man looks at his jacket and finds out that his surname is Jacobs. But he cannot remember his first name, but think that Mark sounds nice. But why is it so easy for him to pick a name?

The place Mark wakes up in can be described as a post-apocalypse place. The roads and buildings destroyed, blood everywhere, and bullet casings all over the place. Mark even calls it a sort of a warzone. Mark is properly a soldier, because he is wearing a camouflage jacket with a nametag, just like the uniform worn by the military. So he knows by instinct what to do in a warzone like the one he is located in. He knows that he have no time to spare, and therefore he is choosing the name, that first comes in mind for him. In this case it is Mark, it could be because his unconsciousness still remember his name is Mark, and that is why he likes the name.

Mark very fast realising that he is in a city, but he is wondering why there is no sound at all, despite his memory loss he knows that there should be more sounds. He is beginning to realise that this is not a normal war, it is his ability to keep his head cold and study of the surroundings, that makes it so easy for him to adapt to the “new” world. An example of this keen skill is, when Mark is founding out that not even a single bullet has hit the Humvee. This helps him to embrace that this is not a normal war. Another example is when Mark realizes that there is a blood trial leading into the shop. With this discovery his is founding a new lead for where to go next. An example on the keeping his head cold even in intense moments is, when he is shooting on the zombies for the first time, despite them not dying, he keeps his cools and keep shooting till they die.

In the heat of fire against the two zombies is where his new identity is being crated. Whit his keen abilities he follows the blood trial into the shop, this is here he for the first time encounters the zombies. Here he is demonstrating how good he is with a machine gun, another reason why we can assume he was a trained soldier, with experience in guns. At this episode he also shows his ability to adapt, after killing the first zombie he knows that hey only will die by headshots. As said earlier this is where he found his new purpose with life. “Mark Jacobs set off toward the distant combat, determined to regain his memory and let others know to aim for the head.” Here you get another reason why is so easy for him to adapt, his determination, his determination to learn his identity is what is driving him forward. This becomes his new identity, to learn who he was in this unknown world. It is a life created in the ruins of the world, and just like he is rebuilding his identity from scrap the world will be rebuild.