Fear (metaphor)
Breckinridge "Breck" Scott, who allegedly invents a cure for zombification, is confident that fear is not only a negative feeling. Fear is a metaphor of “the most valuable commodity in the universe” . When you turn on the TV, you can see that people try to sell the fear of you having to live without their products. Then you realize that you must buy some medicine, because you are afraid of getting sick. You buy something for business development, because you are afraid to stay poor. You buy cosmetics, because you are afraid to be ugly. Fear is the most important. It sells absolutely everything.
Confidence (metaphor)
The economy always starts to rise, slowly, but surely. Every day, a few more registered accounts are opened in American banks, a few more entrepreneurs, which are private, are registered and the Dow index chart is raised for a few more marks. Everything will be fine. People just have to wait. People have to be confident that everything will be fine. Confidence is “a fuel, which helps the machine of capitalism to work . ” The economy exists as l ong as people believe in it. People need to be confident in their abilities .
Like wild animal (simile)
Dr. Kwang Jingshu examines the sick boy . The boy is the first infected person in the village “New Dachang”. His skin is “like the cement on which he lies ” , because it is cold and gray . Dr. Kwang Jingshu cannot find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse. The boy’s eyes are wild and they remain locked on Kwang “like a predatory beast” . It means that zombification makes people angry, ruthless, and reckless.
Hellish world (simile)
Todd Wainio remembers how the city of Yonkers looked when he saw it for the first time . The sky was red that day. It was the feeling as if you were “looking at the world through hell-colored glasses.” This comparison makes it clear that the infection has greatly changed the whole world. Everything is destroyed and burned around . There is a feeling that people live in hell itself.
