Employment In Zone One

Employment has a major effect on the world. Not all of society looks at employment as such a major issue, but the effects of employment are endless. Employment dictates the way of life for most of society. Employment gives each citizen their respective income and dictates items such as a citizen's housing and meals. The novel Zone One demonstrates the extremes of employment. In Zone One the significant event of a zombie apocalypse occurs and because of the tragic event a man named Mark Spitz ends up being one of the few survivors. After the apocalypse occurs Mark along with a group of other lower end citizens are tasked with rebuilding society. All of a sudden a group of low end citizens are tasked with the job of a lifetime. Even though
While there are many reasons people are unemployed in the real world, there is no reason as to why some of the unemployed and lower class are treated the way they are. The lower class is constantly looked at as a disgrace whether it be everyday citizens, avoiding contact with the lower class or parents threatening their kids to work hard in school so they don’t end up in the lower class. It’s very pathetic how the unemployed and other lower class citizens are looked at in our society. Plenty of good people like Mark from Zone One are classified as lower class and really don’t get much of a shot at improving their life unless a tragic event such as a zombie apocalypse occurs. Then society's view on the unemployed and lower class changes because often times the lower class has a significant role in rebuilding what was lost in tragic events. All of a sudden the lower class becomes a savior because all these so called “bums” are rebuilding society. In the end the treatment of the lower class in Zone One is similar to the treatment of the lower class in the real world and just like in the novel if the average citizens in our society give the unemployed and lower class citizens a chance to prove themselves society as a whole will be very impressed with the