The Kill Order Analysis

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Imagine living your everyday life, when a fiction like phenomenon occurs. The Earth’s surface is fried up like a bead of sweat drying on your arm in the heat. And on top of it all, an outbreak that spreads like wild fire that eats your brain away. The young survivors in, The Kill Order, have faced the odds and survived. Mark and Trina are teenagers that have abandoned their home in New York City in search of a safe haven. When the youngsters stumble upon an older man, Alec, he helps them escape the insidious subway system filled with dangerous men. The small band of survivors builds a village outside the city that was destroyed by invaders. Most of the inhabitants were infected with the virus in the invasion. Mark, Trina, Alec, Deedee, and

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