They were taught to be servants and told to be grateful for the opportunity. Children were taken from their families and forced to assimilate into a WASP way of life. I feel like it would be irresponsible to note here that schools intended to indoctrinate Indigenous children were a very real thing.
Things like taking black and Indigenous children from their families and placing them into schools designed to train them to fight the living dead. But there is also raging racism that leads the leaders of America to do horrifying, monstrous things. There is the grotesque living dead, of course. Outside of her family’s plantation, horrors abound. She has a fairly comfortable childhood, being raised by her mother and the other women on the plantation as an adored and willful child. Our main character is Jane McKeene, the black daughter of a plantation owner’s wife. What results is a dark, twisted, entertaining novel that is truer to reality than it should be. Written by Justine Ireland and published in 2018, Dread Nation is an alternate-history horror novel that considers what our nation might have looked like if zombies had risen at the actual battle of Gettysburg. We’ve now entered the world of Dread Nation.
But that it was also the start of a zombie apocalypse. Imagine if you will, a world in which the Battle of Gettysburg wasn’t just the end of the American Civil War. The unreliability of our narrator keeps us questioning what we know to be fact, and we race to the end of the novella to find answers. The tone of this novel morphes from lighthearted to deeply disturbing, very quickly. As the story escalates and things are revealed, shivers will run down your spine. The novel starts out very campy, B-rated horror movie-ish, but quickly turns bone chilling when members of the group begin to die. Is something supernatural at play here, or something much bigger? It is in turn Sawyer and the rest of the group who is shocked when Manny stands up and walks out.
Shanna and her boss nod at Manny in his seat. Sawyer, our narrator, relays watching Shanna and her boss come in to check everyone’s tickets after being alerted to some foul play in ticket purchases. The other four sneak Manny into the theater in pieces and reassemble him in his seat, dressing him in our narrator’s dad’s clothing. One last prank using Manny - what’s the harm? Shanna works at the local movie theater. A group of five teenagers decide to get Manny out of the garage where he’s been stored after finding him years before.
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