Quote: Bruce F. Kawin a professor of English and film studies at the University of Colorado, states that ” The horror of the monster, the challenge to human nature and the threat of a new category of life are found together in the dangerous mix” (Kawin 99).

Summary: Throughout the article, Kawin talks about Composite Monsters, which are a combination of animal and human such as, the Gill man and the fly man. The first film that introduced composite creatures was the “creature from the black lagoon” in 1954 which was a combination of human and fish. Kawin also discusses the fly films from 1958 and 1986. He goes on to show how composite creatures are a danger to human lives. composite creatures are intelligent like humans and have the strength but they still remain part monsters so they could use that as an advantage and plan.

Response: In my opinion, this quote summarizes the whole essay. This quote goes on to explain that humanoid creatures are dangerous. Kawin gives us a couple of examples to how anything against nature there should be a line but as you can see from Dr.Moreau he crossed that line. He attempts to create something new, but his creation was beyond his control, and they come back to get him. This reminds me of “Rise of the planet of the apes”, even though the apes weren’t completely half human half animal, they still had the intellectual of a human. They were injected with a drug so they could see if they could cure Alzheimer but the after effect ended up increasing their intelligence. James Franco and David Oyelowo  were the scientist in this movie, Franco was passionate and wanted to find a cure for his father so he was testing this drug on the apes. But David basically pushed the apes too far to the point where the experiment went wrong, people and apes started to die. They became aggressive and went after David for he did to them.This just goes to show that we shouldn’t exceed nature’s limits or mess with any other species.

By : Stephen T. Asma

QUOTE: Stephen assures that “ Monsters are on the rise”(Asma 61)

SUMMARY: The author stephen t. Asma is a professor of philosophy at columbia college chicago. He talks about the purpose of monsters, how they are replicas of our fears to things that we have experienced and things that we have no control over what so ever. Monster seem to be increasing because it seems to be that it reflected people’s anxiety in post 9/11 and the conflict in Iraq. Asma shows us that there is different interpretations of monsters in different cultures.

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RESPONSE: I decided to choose this quote because Asma does a lot of comparing, he compares monsters to human beings. He goes on to explain that monsters have existed throughout history and across culture worldwide. Asma talks about that Monsters have a purpose, whether to teach us a moral lesson or to be seen as a warning. Monsters have existed in the past and will continue to exist in the future because monsters are beneficial to mankind. I say this because we tend to put ourselves in situations were if something were to happen we would be prepared. This is very true well at least for me, I usually do this when I’m watching a horror movie, I put myself in their shoes and think of scenarios of what I could do if this ever happened in real life to me.

BY: Chuck Klosterman

QUOTE: Klosterman states that “A lot of modern life is excatly like slaughtering zombies” ( klosterman 41).

SUMMARY: In the article “my zombie, myself: why modern life feels rather undead” by Chuck Klosterman, he portrays that the modern life is exactly like slaughtering zombies.He compares the daily routine of the modern world to zombies. klosterman suggests that we are interested in zombies because we are able to relate to them for example he describes zombies as being “ wordless and oozing, and brain dead” most of us feel like this when we do things over and over again.

RESPONSE: I decided to choose this quote because it reflects the reality of the real world. In the article Klosterman goes on about that we do things repetitively and never end. He compares zombies to what we do in our day to day life routines. He has a point, we might not realize it but we do things that are repetitive like school work, using social media, and going to our jobs and then we come back again tomorrow and do all over again. This shows that we are slowly turning into zombies or maybe even live in it already without even realizing it but according to Kosterman he state that we do live in a “zombies’ world and we just live in it.but we can live better”(klosterman 44). We can honestly  live better if we change the things we do.

By Del Toro and Hogan

QUOTE: In this essay the authors state that ” Monsters emphasize what is mortal in us, the vampire emphasize the eternal in us” (Del Toro and Hogan 37).

SUMMARY: In this article “why vampires never die” by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, they discuss about how vampires came to be and how they are still popular today. They go on about how John William Polidori was the Creator of “vampyre”and what he had created. The two characteristics he created was, the romantic hero and the undead monster. Del Toro indicates that most monster represents some of human needs, like vampires they represent our Longs for eternal life, adaptability and primal lust. Vampires keep adjusting and mutating to whatever is “in” at the current time.

RESPONSE: I decided to choose this quote because it pretty much sums up why we are intrigued with vampires. Vampires basically display the “reality” of eternal life. They have what humans seek and desire, for example like most of us we wish to stay young and live forever, I mean who wouldn’t. vampires are a representation of what we want to be in a way. The author goes on about how vampires are very different then other monsters and that’s true because they don’t seek to wipe out the population like other monsters but instead vampires provide mortals with an indifferent lifestyle which anyone would like to have.