Tiffany King
In the
book Red Hill by Jamie McGuire, she
talks about the struggles and tragedies that come along with the zombie
apocalypse. The book bounces back and forth to the viewpoints of different
characters, who all could very well be heroes but really, they’re all just
trying to save their self and their loved ones from the people they would have
considered friends.
Scarlet: Scarlet in the book is
the first character we are introduced to. She works at a hospital and her two
girls are her life. There is something wrong that is going on and the hospital
is over flowing with people with this type of disease. Scarlet thinks about her
girls and does her best to leave, she has to get to them. The phone lines are
down and Scarlet begins to panic. Knowing that the girls are with their father
going to an event that he wanted to take them to, she begins to wonder even
more if they are okay. On her rush to her girls she realizes that the gates
into town are blocked by men with guns, she comes to think that they aren’t
even trained that they are just scared men with guns. On her “adventure” she
meets a man in the same situation she is in. He wants to get to his sister and
his nephew. Together they come up with a plan to sneak into this town, they are
successful and the town seems dead, nobody in sight and this only makes it more
stressful for scarlet. She goes to Andrews’s house and writes a note to him and
the girls to meet her at the red hill. Scarlet soon comes to realize that it’s
happening, it’s the end of the world.
Andrew: Andrew is a father who
is almost in the same situation as Scarlet. He is a father and his daughter is
his world. Although Andrew and his wife are still together (he thinks), he
feels like a single father. We learn about the back story between Andrew and
his wife, she isn’t the mother type. She stays home all day and sits on her
computer all day, she doesn’t pay attention to Andrew or Zoe, their daughter.
As Andrew is waiting for his daughter to be released from school he notices all
of the moms rushing in to grab their kids and get out of there. He’s listening
to the radio and he knows something isn’t right. He runs in and pulls Zoe out
of class. On their way back home he tries to keep zoe calm and try to explain
it to her in a way that won
Skeeter and Jill: skeeter is Andrews’s
brother in law, somehow some way, they all end up in the same place. After
skeeter’s wife Jill passes away, he is alone and fighting zombies on his own.
He finds this house and stays there for safety. When Scarlet and her crew need
a place to stay for the night they stumble upon skeeter. Skeeter is so happy to
hear that scarlet and her friends know Andrew and Zoe, they take him back to
his family and realize that they all have seen each other at least once. Or have
been in the same place and have met the same people.
Miranda and Ashley: These girls
are the ones that hold my heart throughout the entire book. They have been through
so much already and when they finally reach their safety place and are waiting
for their dad to come out and hug them, protect them and be what their father should
be, they realize that he’s dead. They find their ways to coping with the death
of their father and the loss of their mother as well but what makes things
worse is that Ashley’s boyfriend Cooper is there with her and not only does she
have to deal with the death of her father she has to deal with the fact that
the love of her life has died right in front of her. Miranda on the other hand
is in a different scenario, her boyfriend Bryce, who she thought she had been
in love with for a very long time kind of turns to her enemy when she gains new
feelings for the guy that they have rescued, Joey.
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