John Dies At The End Analysis

John Dies at the End (2007) by Jason Pargin (known under the pseudonym David Wong) centres on the author’s self-named protagonist as the narrator with his “booze-hound” best friend John “Cheese” as slackers who ingest a reality-altering drug called “soy sauce”. The “soy sauce” drug offers its taker a heightened sense of time, perception and foresight; but uses their body as a portal to teleport a range of creatures to “infect” more humans. However, the alien God named Korrok intends on replacing humans with his clones with the “soy sauce” inside them to open up more portals. Therefore, David and John take on the responsibility to save their world from an alien invasion while on the “soy sauce” drug.