World War Z

Max Brooks
Literary Fiction
Pages 57-111

The Great Panic, marks the worldwide acknowledgment of the breakout of the living dead. Even heavily fortified America has been infested with Zombies, as chaos spreads throughout the world. Many people picture the zombie outbreak as the begging of the end of the world. Brook interviews an average American housewife, who tells of the mob of zombies that devastated her neighborhood. This event showed Americans that they indeed were not safe and put society in a state of total anarchy. The women was making dinner when a gray ghoulish figure broke through the glass door and charged her. Luckily the father was there to save here and fight of the zombie. The family fled to an isolated part of Alaska were they survived World War Z. The next interview was with a professional body guard. Highly trained veterans were able to make a large sum of money at this time because of the chaos and people fearing for their lives. He helped transport and protected celebrities, sports stars, and rappers. On one job he was stationed in a heavily fortified house that had a 15 foot wall guarding it. The place could survive waves of Zombie hoards for years. But they shouldn't have been fearing Zombies. Soon, the public eye noticed that this place could keep them safe and they formed a mob and stormed the house killing the wealthy celebrities and stars.

I believe if America was invaded and in a state of chaos that people would react just as they did in the book. In order to ensure their survival people would do anything, it would be anarchy. people would break into stores and steal supplies, and break into houses killing other humans just so they could be safe. A society facing extinction will do anything to protect themselves, but many things could cause a downward spiral not only zombies. For example, if the world got into a nuclear war, the people who survived the blasts would be on their own scavenging and killing anything to to ensure their survival. The fact that many countries posses these weapons that could result in society reacting the same way as they did in the story.