Heroism In Haiti

Hollywood exaggerates what a true zombie is in the real world for the citizens of Haiti. In the article, a student from Harvard University went down to Haiti to figure out why there were stories about real life zombies. The student, Wade, wanted to pursue his ideas on how voodoo priests were “resurrecting” people. He found that the priests were just using a drug that could be found in Fugu fish around the island. Multiple voodoo priests used this drug in their recipes. The drug paralyzed the person who used the recipe, stopping their vital organs and metabolism to a rate that was close to death. The drug kept the person conscious, but eventually would wear off. The Fugu fish poison does not, however, contribute to the mind control of the zombification, that drug is Datura plant which comes from West Africa and other tropical areas, like Haiti.
Hollywood depicts a zombie being a person who has been resurrected …show more content…
A haiti zombie is just a regular person he or she might be slightly different from when they disappeared but are still recognizable to an extent. Television on the other hand makes a zombie to be decaying in the face and limbs with their muscle tissue gone just leaving dead skin and bones. Then the clothes that they are wearing are most of the time torn and tattered to show the decaying skin. The skin is usually a brown or a green for some reason, probably to show age and the rate at which the zombie is aging. The amount that this is exaggerated is too much to comprehend, with the lack of science. When a haiti zombie is created their is a scientific reason why the act and look the way they do, but there is another reason why they drastically wanted to change the appearance of the formal people. That reason being the more dramatic and horrifying the creature's appearance creates more drama and tension which helps the zombie as a horror

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