The world gets turned upside in a fictional tale by Max Brooks. World War Z, is a great book about the zombie wars. In the year **** A disease starts spreading through the human race, this disease kills. This would not be a problem, well not as big of a problem, except this disease doesn’t just kill; it also brings you back as a walking corpse. The only thought….FEED!!!! At first people don’t know what to do, they think that their loved ones are sick and try to get them better, then they die and come back and bite them! They don’t know what to do. Either they end up killing them or restraining them. The governments tell the world nothing so they know nothing. The main character wrote a report for the ???? on the event, and they told him that there was too much human aspect to it. He argued and they told him to write a book, so he did.
The book is written in a narrative form from different points of view. ???? interviewed several different people, from college students to admirals to officers in the army, American and otherwise. The stories range from the beginning of the epidemic, to the “present” time rebuilds. They range from every continent, and from every background. Every story has a bit of the puzzle to tell you what happened before, during, and after the war.
It shows you just what people are made of, and what they will do to survive, whether that is to shoot at a submarine that may have your only son on it to save the submarine that you are captaining along with about 500 more people, or scaling a building, slowly, ever so slowly, checking out every room on the way down so that you can rummage for food, clothing, supplies. It is a story of hope, even though it hasn’t happened, it could. Maybe not the zombie part but the epidemic part, and what would we, as humans, do? Would the government hide everything, tell us they have it under control, like the Chinese government, or would they give in and broadcast the only way to kill them, like the American government? If you had to shoot a loved one in the head because he or she was no longer themselves, could you? Could you pick up and leave everything that you have ever owned behind, knowing that you will never be back to see it again? Could you go back to living without a cell phone, electricity, computer, or internet? Would you be able to survive if you had to? That is what Max Brooks makes you ask yourself while you are reading this book.
So would you be one of the survivors, or one of the zombies?
