Formulas - Assignment 1-3-5

 Formulas - Assignment 1-3-5

Jamie Hunter

Professor Omar Alomari

HUMN240-E1FF

February 01, 2012

 

 

 

Formulas - Assignment 1-3-5

 

The time and place of the hit television show, The Walking Dead is present day after massive amounts of people die from a mysterious illness then come back to life. The dead have no other instincts except to walk the earth in search of flesh to eat. Some people survived the illness and they now must find a way to fight the dead, find safety, and restart the human existence.

The hero of the series is Sherriff Ricky Grimes. Each week he comes up against flesh eating zombies and must find a way for him and the surviving group to outlast the walking dead. He also must keep his family together. His wife is his love interest and his son is what keeps him going. His wife and he have the same marital problems as before the zombie holocaust. Each week they work on an issue to get closer in their marriage that seems to be drifting apart. His wife has another love interest (the Sherriff’s best friend Shane) that makes competition between her husband and Shane in the show.

The wife of the Sherriff finds out that she is pregnant adding a twist to the show; she is not sure who the father of the baby is, nor if she wants to bring a baby into a nightmare of a world. She is forced to reveal her affair with his best friend Shane. After it is revealed she has had an affair, it is also revealed that she thought he was dead. Shane stepped in to take care of his wife and son when everyone thought the Sherriff was dead; therefore, The Sherriff forgives the affair. Shane agrees to bow out of the love triangle to spare his childhood friend any more pain. Shane reappears later because wants to know if he is the father of the baby. He wants to interact with the child in the possible future. The possibility that the baby may be Shane’s sets the plot for the next show.