In The Walking Dead series Rick Grimes, the protagonist, is driven by trying to find and then help his family and friends to survive the Zombie Apocalypse.
When the series opens, Rick wakes up in the hospital after being in a coma, to find himself in this screwed-up, survival-of-the-fittest world. Once he wakes up, he immediately starts looking for his wife and son so he would be able to protect them.
Once Rick finds his family, his drive is to keep them alive and find them shelter. In the first book, he finds a campsite to stay at, which ends up being overrun by Zombies. In the second book, when Carl, Rick's son, gets shot while hunting, Rick has to stay at Hershel's farm while his son is healing. Rick has to get medical supplies and help care for his son, even though Hershel doesn't want him staying there. And in the third book, he tries his hardest to clean out the jail he found, and deal with the inmates, both alive and dead, so his people will be safe, and have a better chances of surviving.
Throughout the series, Rick has to make hard decisions to protect his family and other survivors, and the decisions he has to make are beyond what most men and fathers would have to think about in the normal world. Sometimes he has to kill people he cares about to save the rest, like (spoiler alert) when he has to kill Shane, one of his closest friends, after Shane goes crazy. Or when he has to kill Thomas, because Thomas killed innocent survivors, like two of Hershel's daughters. Other times he has to hurt in order to save people, like when he amputates Allen's leg when he is bitten by a zombie, or when he has to amputate Dale's leg so that Dale can stay alive, which saves him from dying. Other times, he has to act quickly to save others, like when he kills Dexter, when Dexter was about to kill Rick, Carl, Lori, and the rest of the group. No matter what's around the corner in The Walking Dead, or what Rick has to do to survive, he always cares about his family and friends first, and makes quick and accurate decisions.
Your blog post has a nice fluency to the writing. Good job. Maybe next time you could have a space between paragraphs!
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