Temple, her name itself was used as a metaphor for holy and everything righteous. Along the way throughout the story Temple meets a lot of different people most of them with biblical names. It is strange how all this religious out look and religious based book, involves zombies. No where in any bible, have I ever read anything about a zombie attack. What has me most confused through this is though it seems as God has come back for His children and these are the people who were left after the wrath, but how come Temple was still there?
The zombies represent decaying and death. The death of civilizations, desolated land, manners, and even desolate hearts. Throughout the book everything was abandoned, destroyed, vacated, and over taken either by weeds or “meatskins”. The descriptions of the places Temple visited left vivid pictures in my head of the smell of death with the towns just left exactly as if it was untouched for 20years, or destroyed by the touch of the zombies, who were the spokes people for death.
When Abraham tries to rape Temple and she escapes, she comes across the hunters. She never really flinches when they tell her to sleep and none of the men will touch her. I am not sure but most women who have been raped or have had an attempt of rape committed upon them