World War Z: The Great Panic

Up until this point, many were still in denial over the zombie threat. In "The Great Panic," the chapter describes the events that happened in the aftermath of a news story confirming the existence of the outbreak of the zombie plague. In this chapter you see some of the extreme situations people are pushed into. In Russia, members of an army unit were forced to decide which member out of ten members was to be killed as a punishment for rebelling against having to hunt down zombies. There was also a scene where a girl named Sharon recalls when her mother tried to strangle her.  Another extreme situation was when people tried to flee to the sea and had outbreaks among the passengers, there was one man who desperately swam through zombie infested waters in order to reach a boat. The final event of the chapter was the battle between the U.S military and the zombies that took place in Yonkers. What was meant to be a shining victory intended to restore the nation's morale; ended up becoming a complete disaster. This was due in part to the use of weapons which were ineffective against zombies. The part that stood out to me was when Sharon's mother tried to kill her because killing is mostly seen as an act of cruelty and inhumanity. However, in this case it was an act out of love, as the mother was trying to prevent Sharon from becoming infected and reanimated as a zombie.