ZOMBIE ESCAPE ROOM

Zombie ESCAPE ROOM

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Introduction

The cause of the Zombie Apocalypse lies in the neglect of one of humanity's greatest treasures: classic literature. As people turned away from the wisdom found in these books, a dark force was unleashed, plunging the world into a zombie-infested nightmare. Your mission is clear: venture deep into this abandoned library, where the very books that were forsaken hold the KEY to salvation. By collecting the elements awarded at the end of each puzzle, you will be able to reverse the zombie pandemic and SAVE humanity.

To navigate through the rooms, you must: •explore every nook of the library • decode cryptic messages •solve riddles • reorder history, and •unravel mysteries Your group will draw upon the wisdom of beloved literary works as you work together to collect each of the five elements necessary to reverse the zombie curse.

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You are about to enter the first room of the libary. You must be very quiet and work quickly so you don't attract the zombies! Start where the arrow points you to read your first text. Pay attention to anything that stands out and might be a clue. Then search the library for those clues. Each clue opens up a saying you will want to write down and save for the challenge to get into the next room.

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“If he didn’t teach you, who did?” Miss Caroline asked good-naturedly. “Somebody did. You weren’t born reading The Mobile Register.” “Jem says I was. He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch. Jem says my name’s really Jean Louise Bullfinch, that I got swapped when I was born and I’m really a-” Miss Caroline apparently thought I was lying. “Let’s not let our imaginations run away with us, dear,” she said. “Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage-” “Ma’am?” “Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now.” I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon my crime. I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church—was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow—anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. I knew I had annoyed Miss Caroline, so I let well enough alone and stared out the window until recess when Jem cut me from the covey of first-graders in the schoolyard. He asked how I was getting along. I told him. “If I didn’t have to stay I’d leave. Jem, that damn lady says Atticus’s been teaching me to read and for him to stop it-”

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Question 1

Reading Classics can strengthen your...

Emotional Range

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Control

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Experiencing conflict from someone else's perspective, such as in classic books, helps you make decisions about your own behavior in real life. This is called:

Personal Choice

Personal Values

Personal Ethics

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Often times, reading about a character going through a difficulty or challenge we can relate to helps us in our own journey of ...

Healing

Discovery

Accademic Success

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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork, To Kill A Mockingbird, is about honor and injustice in the deep south The heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred strives not to prove that justice always prevails, but to instill in us the drive to constantly work on behalf of those for whom injustice is insurmoutable.

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One of the major themes in TKAM.

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Hope Amidst Adversity

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Hardship in Migrant Camps

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Struggles in Farm Labor

The Dust- BowlBegins

Journey Westward

Solidarity and Resilience

Eviction and Displacement

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Exposing economic inequality in our country, this novel is considered by many to be The Great American Novel.

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Steinbeck argued for this in Grapes.

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Mystery Millionaire's Lavish Lifestyle Shocks East Egg!

Speculation Grows Over the Source of Jay Gatsby's Vast Fortune

East Egg, NY - The opulent mansion of Jay Gatsby, known locally as the "Gatsby Estate," has become the talk of the town in East Egg, sparking widespread curiosity and speculation about the origins of Gatsby's immense wealth. Rumors abound regarding the mysterious millionaire's extravagant lifestyle, with reports of lavish parties, imported cars, and a personal staff catering to his every whim. Observers note the grandeur of Gatsby's estate, complete with sprawling gardens, a swimming pool, and a fleet of luxury vehicles that rival those of the wealthiest elites in the area.

"Jay Gatsby's rise to prominence has been nothing short of meteoric," remarked one anonymous source familiar with the local social scene. "But where exactly did all this wealth come from? It's the question on everyone's mind." Despite the speculation, Gatsby himself remains enigmatic and elusive, rarely seen in public except during his legendary soirées, where guests are treated to the finest food, drink, and entertainment. The allure of Gatsby's lifestyle has drawn comparisons to the extravagant excesses of the

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Roaring Twenties, with some dubbing him the "King of East Egg" and others questioning the sustainability of his extravagant expenditures. As curiosity mounts and rumors swirl, the mystery surrounding Jay Gatsby's wealth continues to captivate and mystify the residents of East Egg, leaving many wondering what secrets lie behind the gates of the Gatsby Estate.

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The green light across the bay, visible from Gatsby's mansion, held all Gatsby's hopes and dreams. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”—F.Scott Fitzgerald

Speculation Grows Over the Source of Jay Gatsby's Vast Fortune

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“By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever. She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars” F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Daisy is engaged to Jay in February, but marries Tom in June. She is upset "by the next autumn" (September) after a fancy wedding and a lavish gift of a pearl necklace.

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He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired, the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly with a strained sound Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”

Gatsby's Shirts

When Gatsby comes back into Daisy's life, he is a remade man—no longer poor, he now can afford as much or more than Tom, the man Daisy chose over Gatsby for his social security and status.

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Based on the clues, what would you say might be an apropriate theme statement for The Great Gatsby?

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Money Can't Buy You Love

Friends Are Better Than Lovers

True Love Always Wins

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Based on the timeline clues, what would you say might be an apropriate theme statement for Their Eyes Were Watching God?

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True Love Never Dies

Love For God Is The Only Love

Love Of Self Is Most Important

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In the books The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes Were Watching God, both protagonists have a dream. Jay wants his "happily ever after" with his love, Daisy. Janie wants to find love and connection and belonging, also. Gatsby tries to buy love. Janie weathers the trials of life to find it.

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The ultimate goal of each character.

Choose the correct arrow (A or B) to get to the lock. Only arrows pointing away from your position are possible. The unlocking password is the answer to the last question. You need all the clues to answer the question. Good luck!

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Who grows more as a character, Holden or Celie?

Celie

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The books The Color Purple and The Cartcher In the Rye, are both really about COURAGE. Celie, in TCP, finds courage through her friendships and her children to stand up for herself and become a woman. Holden, in TCinR, does not trust enough to grow. He lacks the cvourage.

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This looks like a safe place to keep all our stuff! How many elements have we collected?

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You did it! You have ALL the ELEMENTS!

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You Did It!

You Saved Humanity!

The Zombies are Human Again!

Thanks to you, humanity will continue.

So grab any of the classics that sounded good. Look at the cover. Read the teaser. Read the first few pages. Choose your classic book to read. It's good for you! It's good for humanity!

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Created by Dana Knox with www.app.enial.ly Image Credits: www.freepik.com Canva.com Texts: The Catcher In The Rye The Color Purple The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby Huck Finn To Kill A Mockingbird Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Hurricane

The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

Everybody is united in the same struggle. The sense of self that Janie gains from the love that she shares with Tea Cake enables her to endure. Even unto death.

As Janie and Tea Cake seek refuge from a raging hurricane outside. The struggle at the heart of the novel is set forth in the starkest terms: humans against God, Janie and the others against nature.

The Catcher In The Rye

Holden “tried to rub” off the “‘F$%# you’” signs, but he couldn’t because it was written “with a knife or something”. —Salinger

Holden is trying to save little kids’ innocence by getting rid of the graffiti, though it won’t come off. Even if one could get one “‘ f_you’” off the wall, it would be “impossible” to get rid all the “‘F_ you’” signs in the world because there are so many.

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Reading Classics can help you move through personal healing.

The Catcher In The Rye

"“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.” —Salinger

Holden talks down about everyone, including himself.

"Eviction and Displacement"

The banks took the homes and farms families had lived in for generations, leaving them homeless and desperate, wandering the roads in search of shelter, work, and food.

Quote from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

"They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat...The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it."

CLUE!

Reading Classics can give you the ability to understand cultural and literary references like “Big Brother” (1984), “Wife in the Attic” (Jane Eyre), or “Tilting at Windmills” (Don Quixote).

Janie's Return to Eatonville

Peace at last!

The [tragic events of her past] commenced to sing a sobbing sigh out of every corner in the room; out of each and every chair and thing. Commenced to sing, commenced to sob and sigh, singing and sobbing. Then Tea Cake came prancing around her where she was and the song of the sigh flew out of the window and lit in the top of the pine trees. Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl. Of course he wasn’t dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like

a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neil Hurston

Janie is finally standing alone, but on her own two feet.

"Hope Amidst Adversity"

Through perseverance and resilience, people held onto hope for a better future, determined to overcome the challenges of the Dust Bowl era.

Quote from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

Tom laughed uneasily, "Well, maybe like Casy says, a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one – an’ then – " "Then what, Tom?" "Then it don’ matter. Then I’ll be aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be ever’where – wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ – I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build – why, I’ll be there. See? God, I’m talkin’ like Casy. Comes of thinkin’ about him so much. Seems like I can see him sometimes."

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Reading Classics can strengthen your emotional intelligence and social perception.

The Color Purple

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.” —Walker r

Celie's statement reflects her desire for love and how she is trying so hard to get that from someone.

Marriage

Janie's grandmother hoses Logan Killicks, a much older man, to be Janie's husband. Nanny believes Logan to be the perfect choice for Janie because he offers her protection and stability. But, according to Janie, "The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the tree. . . ." Janie's brief marriage to Logan failed to bring her the happiness, love, and acceptance that she desired. Her second abusive marriage also failed. It was only with his death that Janie found any true freedom: 'Janie starched and ironed her face...like a wall of stone and steel. The funeral was going on outside...Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life. She did not reach outside for

anything, nor did the things of death reach inside to disturb her calm. She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world...She would have the rest of her life to do as she pleased.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neil Hurston

The Color Purple

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” —Walker

This quote signifies Celie's transformation from feeling unworthy and invisible to appreciating the beauty and significance of life's small joys and wonders.

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Gatsby And HIs Race Against Time

Gatsby had loved Daisy for a long time. When she threw him over for Tom,

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Is That A Symbol?

Any person, situation, or object can be a symbol and represent an idea of some sort. Symbolism comes in a variety of formats: water as a symbolization of rebirth, fall representing time change and growth, or the color yellow as a representation of happiness are all common examples. Afamouse symbol is the red letter A, used in The Scarlet Letter. It symbol- ized "adultery", but came to mean "able" or "angel.

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Reading Classics can improve your personal ethics.

Words Are Brain Food

Hearing words helps to build a rich network of words in a baby's brain. Kids whose parents talk and read to them often know more words by age 2 than children who have not been read to. And kids

who are read to during their early years are more likely to learn to read at the right time.

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Kid's Health

The mystical pillars of all world faiths are surprisingly within reach in the form of a bundle of texts and ancient records that have been delicately protected for thousands of years. Between major world religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Taoism, monks from long-forgotten ages worked diligently to ensure the versions we carry today. Their hope was to maintain these texts to accurately represent the histories and faiths of cultures and civilizations that now exist only in their modern-day descendants.

Reading and Religion

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"Journey Westward"

Families packed their meager belongings and set out the long journey westward, facing hunger, exhaustion, and uncertainty, but dreaming of a better life.

Quote from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

"It ain't that big. The whole United States ain't that big. It ain't that big. It ain't big enough. There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat."

The Pear Tree

The beginning of Janie’s spiritual and sexual awakening.

[Janie] was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid.

The embrace between the bee and the flowers imprints itself upon Janie as an idealized vision of love.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neil Hurston

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"Hardship and Migrant Camps"

Life in migrant camps was harsh, crowded, and often took advantage of the people's desperation by offering very with low wages and poor living conditions.

Quote from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

"The migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement..."In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

The Catcher In The Rye

“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move ... Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.” —Salinger

This is comforting to Holden, who is terrified of change and who feels wholly unprepared to grow up and accept his mortality—and his responsibility.

Memoir: "The Dust Bowl Begins"

The land turned to dust overnight, crops withered, and hope faded as the sky darkened with swirling storms.

Quote from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

"Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes."

The Catcher In The Rye

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”—Salinger

Holden sees maturity as inherently bad—growing up leads to corruption and phoniness, and finally death.

"Solidarity and Resilience"

Despite the hardships, people found strength in unity, supporting each other and fighting for better rights and conditions.

Quote from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

''Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falter, for he hath not another to help him up... Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?''

The Color Purple

“Nettie and my kids be comin' home soon, and when they get here we gonna set around and whip your ass.” — Celie, The Color Purple—Walker r

[Celie finally confronts Mr. ____

The Color Purple

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here." —Walker r

Celie's statement reflects her newfound self-acceptance and resilience, as she embraces her identity and asserts her presence despite societal judgments and challenges.

The Color Purple

"You a low-down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.” —Walker

Celie is leaving Mr.____ and striking out on her own.

The Catcher In The Rye

"I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.” —Salinger

Holden is angry and disappointed with the people around him, but even with these feeling, he wants to have healthy closure in a good-by.

Tea Cake

Janie Finds Love

He set [the game of checkers] up and began to show her [hw to play] and she found herself glowing inside. Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play... “Jody useter tell me Ah never would learn. It wuz too heavy fuh mah brains.” “Folks is playin’ it wid sense and folks is playin’ it without. But you got good meat on yo’ head. You’ll learn. Have uh cool drink on me.”

Tea Cake is the first person to take Janie seriosly and love her for who she was. She found her self esteem and self worth growing as she was finally nurtured and respected for being a person, not just a woman.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neil Hurston

Bananas

Bananas are most known for their potassium content but also contain B vitamins, vitamin C, magnesium, and fiber. These support heart health and digestive health. Bananas make for a good snack, cereal-topper, or a great addition to your favorite muffin or fruit bread.

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"Struggles in Farm Labor"

Working in the fields was backbreaking, underpaid labor, with little protection from harsh weather and abusive treatment.

Quote from The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

..."when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at oppression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on."