9/2/10 Questions

World War Z
Summary
The setting of this book takes place in many countries such as the United States of America to Chile to Israel, about a decade after World War Z, a war that nearly destroyed the human race. Max Brooks travels around the world to interview and record people and their unique experiences during the Zombie War and what happened.

Question
1)The story can make you think about what would happen if the world was plunged into a world of darkness, filled with flesh eating carnivores and how we, as a human race, would survive such a disastrous ordeal. If such a situation were to happen, could we come out on top and survive? Or would we break as a civilization and succumb to our basic instincts and cease to function as a society? It is an interesting viewpoint that we don't see very often.

2)Although there are many characters, there is one that is unique, and that is Todd Wainio, who does what he is ordered to do. Todd Wainio is a U.S. infantryman and fought in the Battle of Yonkers, which was a disaster for the military as it had made the public lose confidence and fanned the flames for the "Great Panic". He manages to survive the Battle of Yonkers and becomes a veteran to the "Road to New York" where the U.S. went on the offensive and led a campaign to purge the country of the zombies.

3)The events that led up to what happened in the book started with an unknown strain originating in China that eventually spread throughout the world. Infected organs that were shipped out of China from the black mark for transplants may have been the cause for why the infection spread so quickly. Another reason continuing reason is that the governments failed to take notice of infection because they were in denial of zombies actually existing. The virus began to spread and millions of people were killed as a result, only to reanimate as the living dead. Thus, the beginning of "World War Z".