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6 | [[quoteright:313:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zone_one.jpg]] |
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8 | A novel by Creator/ColsonWhitehead set during the ZombieApocalypse. Humanity is trying to wipe out the remaining zombies while restarting civilization, with the impromptu government based in Buffalo. The main character, Mark Spitz, is a "sweeper" in a reclaimed section of lower Manhattan, called [[TitleDrop Zone One]]. His job is to clear stragglers out of buildings within the safe zone so that new tenants can eventually move in. |
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10 | !!This book provides examples of: |
11 | %%* ActionSurvivor |
12 | %%* AHouseDivided: happens to assorted groups of refugees. |
13 | %%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: the Lieutenant]] |
14 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The zone gets overrun by skels.]] |
15 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: This Mark Spitz is not related to the famous Olympic swimmer. |
16 | * NotUsingTheZWord: The undead are called "skels" because the years of plague have reduced them to little more than skeletons |
17 | %%* NoZombieCannibals |
18 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mark Spitz (nicknamed for the Olympian after claiming he can't swim), the Quiet Storm, and No Mas |
19 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: In addition to the usual flesh-eating, plague-bearing kind, there are also "stragglers", which seem to be frozen mid-action and do not move, notice people, or bite [[spoiler: (at first)]] |
20 | * PostApocalypticTrafficJam: During the I-95 job in Connecticut, Mark Spitz helps to clear the wreckage of vehicles long abandoned by those fleeing the zombie apocalypse. |
21 | * PurpleProse: As a "literary" zombie novel, Zone One strays into this territory frequently. |
22 | ** Mark Spitz, as TheNarrator, often goes into a flashback...and stays there for a long, rambling monologue. |
23 | * RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Although there is occasional mention of soldiers shooting fresher skels in the torso, Mark Spitz makes a point of sticking to head shots. |
24 | * RoomFullOfZombies: The sweepers, like Mark Spitz, are charged with clearing buildings of these. A couple are turned up, with varying consequences. |
25 | %%* RunningGag: "Accursed Connecticut." |
26 | * SafeZoneHopeSpot:[[spoiler: The entire setting of Zone One is this. It seems like the sweepers might keep the skels out, but they're overrun in the end.]] |
27 | %%* ThePlague |
28 | %%* ZombieApocalypse |
29 | * ZombieInfectee: Mentioned more than seen; some of the bitten think that anticiprant, if administered quickly enough and in a high dose, will prevent their undeath. |
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