Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Notes over World War Z class discussion

Key
   Q? – question
   A: - answer
   SN: - side note

Q? How is the book set up?
   A: A bunch of interviews from a guy going around collecting information about what happened from all the surviving important people (12 years later).

Q? How did the book start out?
   A: The UN military branch sends out the guy to go and collect all of the information.

Q? How did the outbreak happen?
   A: A doctor visits a village in China and sees a bunch of sick people and a child culprit. He calls his friend to ask what’s going on, and his friend asks of he’s armed. The doctor says no. the doctor, freaked out by his friends reaction calls his daughter to say goodbye. The military shows up, kills all of the infected, and arrests the doctor and everybody who isn’t infected.

Q? Why is this important?
   A: China is trying to keep the infection a secret, and succeeds for a couple of years. It shows how china is trying to deal with it without causing panic about it.

Q? What stands out as important?
   A: The doctor who makes a placebo drug.

Q? Why is this important/a problem?
   A: It gave everybody hope, but didn’t do anything to help the actual problem.
     SN: He’s super rude about it.

Q? Page 56-57, why did he say that?
   A: He is justifying why he did it, and how it’s not his problem

Q? What interested you the most?
   A: Black-market organs (pg. 21-28).

Q? What’s going on and why is it a big deal?
   A: They have to find a special heart and turn towards the black-market, and the patient gets infected. This seems to be how the outbreak spread across the world.

Q? What else seemed important in today’s readings?
   A: How Israel stepped up to protect itself against the zombies.
     SN: They built a wall and invited the Jews and people of Palestinian descent inside for safety.

Q? How did Israel know to do this?
   A: Some people get an email, saw all of the warning signs and took action.

Q? What’s going on in the paragraph?
   A: They’ve been “burned” before for not listening to warning signs. So when they see the sign/hear about something absolutely ridiculous, like walking corpses, they don’t risk it and immediately take action and investigate.

Q? Why is the report so crucial?
   A: It’s all of the evidence of the zombies being real and they share it with everybody.

Q? What does America do about the report?
   A: They ignore it and think its crazy, as does everybody else who gets it.

SN: I found it interesting that the son fought against safety.
Q? Why did he fight?
   A: Because he thought it was like a prison, and he grew up with believing that the Jews were their (Palestinians) mortal enemies.

Q? What happens with all of the fighting/civil war in Israel?

   A: The Rebels fight back.

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