The Great Panic

This specific chapter goes into detail about what it is really like when people realize what is truly going on and people "panic". Throughout poor attempts to escape the inescapable we learn that there is no true escape. The chapter goes into how there is almost no defense against the zombies. The part that sticks out the most is the very beginning when he was talking about how everyone was on I-80 at an attempt to escape and many people were trapped in a swarm of zombies and how this created more panic and only made it worse. It sets up how people act during this time. it shows us the current state of people and there decision making process. It is important to the book because it shows us how the general public reacted to zombies and how the zombies tend to act towards humans.