Ch 9 Goodbyes

We find out in this chapter that the soldier in Russia, Maria, is 4 months pregnant. It is funny because the book points out how she had time to do more than fight Zombies. She now works privately for Russia. She explains the only reason she can tell the interviewer is because they want him to share her story. In Barbados they are on their last drink at the bar when Sean admits he is addicted to murder. The strange part is the interviewer doesn't seem shocked by this, and almost hopes for lingering Zombies so that Sean won't kill out of habit. In China, things are getting back to normal. Children play outside and the sickness they get is a common cold. The interviewer notes Kwang being thankful that the children are carefree post Zombie. Most of these conclusions they have come to the conclusion that the Zombies were a great awakening to the world. It was not a blessing in disguise, but made a defiant impact on the world. An impact that maybe the world needed. 

Ch 8 Total War

This chapter starts in a blimp thousands of feet above Finland, where the control center is located. It makes sense if the Zombies are on the ground then the safest place is the sky. Anyway, the leaders are worried about the "attack the Zombies" situation. He is concerned about sending men to fight against millions of Zombies. His point is totally valid. We then move to Colorado where we hear about US new army, and how it has evolved from "New School" to "Old School." This is smart and more effective than using the expensive "New School" gadgets that didn't work on the Zombies anyway. They used brute force now. I thought it was very cool when the interviewer talks about the Zombies in the catacombs in Paris. I can not imagine the nightmarish things that happened there and it really gives a spooky realistic feel to the reading. The chapter finishes in Colorado where Todd mentions "feral packs," and even goes on to say he got a scar on his face from the claws of a stray cat that apparently had a very tough time adjusting to the new world. He goes on to explain how difficult some civilians were making the army. These people were scared and did not make wise survival decisions and really were in the way. At the end of the chapter people were scraping for a sense of their old life. It talks about a Native American woman getting emotional over a turtle. This was hope to her, and that was something she had not had for a very long time.

Summary on Around the World, and Above

This chapter discusses the different ways each country deals with the outbreak of Zombies. In the old countries (mostly in Europe) they used old castles as defense. It was useful because of the high walls meant to keep intruders out. Meanwhile in North Korea they went MIA. They cut ties with the rest of the world in hopes to save themselves. I’m not sure if that was the best move honestly. There were some countries that were very giving during the Zombie crisis (mostly Cuba) and they shipped goods all over the world to help others. It was the realization of a lot of people that they would have to get good at hunting these Zombies, so they did just that. At the end of the chapter we hear the account of Ernesto Olguin. He is telling the interviewer about the meeting of world leaders in Hawaii. It was a mess of a meeting, but at the end they all agreed that the plan of action for the Zombies would be to attack.

World War Z chapter 7: Around the World, and Above

Chapter 7, Around the World, and Above, was mainly about how each country dealt with their zombie apocalypse. England and those "Old World" countries mainly used castles, although said that most of the castles were not smart about the safety precautions, or smart at all, and they got overrun. And even if they were smart, disease, lack of food, and even fire is what got some of them. In the federal states of Micronesia, they had Radio Free Earth, formally known as Radio Ubunye, which was basically a means to provide its citizens with information of what was happening and how to get through it, like how to purify water or make penicillin. In India, they said that they thought that their religion would save them, by them flocking to the Ganges, but that really turned to their downfall. In South Korea, they talked about how they thought that North Korea seemed the most prepared to what was happening to the world, but then one day, they practically just disappeared. So my thoughts are a whole country suicide. In Japan, it was about how a socially awkward boy named Kondo survived just by researching how zombies were like via fictional thought, and by talking to his online buddies. He eventually had to escape out the window by tying bed sheets together, and it took him 3 whole days to do so, but he was also searching for weapons and things to use. Cuba was probably the most prepared out of everyone. Once they killed all of the zombies on the island, they started to help other countries by shipping goods to them. In China, they started a civil war, which did nobody any good. What I found the most interesting was how Barati said that in most traditional war, they dehumanize the enemy so that they won't feel bad in killing them. But because zombies were literally not human, it was a bit different. Some people thought that the zombies felt emotion, or were intelligent in some way, while others thought that you could even domesticate them. You would think that the zombie's hunger for human flesh would change their thinking, but it really didn't, and that's what I found the weirdest.

World War Z: Around the World, and Above

This chapter talked about how the countries dealt with the zombie apocalypse. In Bohemia and other European countries, they talked about how they lived in castles. It saved their lives, excluding others countries like Holland as they were killed off by pneumonia. In the Federal States of Micronesia, they used something called Radio Ubunye, now as Radio Free Earth. They used it to spread info on how to survive throughout the country. In South Korea, they talked about how North Korea looked to be the most prepared and then everyone, just disappeared. North Korea was practically gone. In Japan, it was about a kid named Kondo, who spent most of his time on a computer. When he first noticed the zombies, he made bed sheet ropes to lower himself to different levels to try and get ground floor. In one room, he found a sword that was owned by a WWII veteran, and then killed zombies that way. In Cuba, they were able to prepare for the apocalypse because of where they were located. Once they killed all zombies they started shipping goods out to help other countries. In China, they started a civil war which was terrible. It also had two more countries. The part that stood out to me was that a kid who was considered an outsider was able to learn about what to do and figure out how to survive by using his knowledge.

Around the world, and Above

This chapter's main focus is on what various countries around the world did to deal and fight the zombie invasion. In European countries castles are being used to fight off zombies, like how they used them to fight off armies back in Old English Times. It seemed that North Korea disappreaed when the invasion came about. They cut off all connections, paths, and railways between them and South Korea off. In Japan teachers and their students are interviewed on how the became such great zombie hunters, dealing with what was going on all over. Cuba shipped out goods to the whole world, and became a manufacturing base country. World leaders even held a conference in Hawaii to try and put an end to this invasion once and for all. My favorite part of the chapter when Semsei Tomonaga Ijiro gets introduced and interviewed. He was a survivor of the atomic bomb and though to be an outcast. Because of this, he decides to leave and ends up hiking to the Hiddaka Mountains. Their he realizes his duty in life is to become a zombie hunter after he kills one from almost ending his life. Did I mention the man is blind but still capable of doing all of this?

Home Front USA

This short chapter was actually one of my favorites. It showed that even though someone may be wealthy and more fortunate, when it comes down to life threatening situations they are the least needed. What interested me in this chapter was, many rich people were upset because the same people that they hired to work under them, are now the people in charge of them and giving the orders. People were labeled F-6 or A-1 to determined their level of importance. F-6 people did jobs that involved little skill because they weren't fit to do bigger jobs. A-1 people were the ones in the Community Self-Sufficiency Program and they had the most skill out of everyone else.

Turning the Tide

This chapter's main focus is what happened after the zombie apocalypse and everybody realized what was actually happening was reality. It basically talked about the what the soldiers and government had in store to keep zombies far away from them. The part that interested me a lot in this chapter is when Redeker composed plan "Orange Eighty-Four" to help decide who would live and who would die. This plan basically caused people to choose who lived based on skills, income, intelligence, and any other traits that could help in the future. The people that were only average were the sacrifices for the zombies. I was so surprised because the people actually went along with the plan. It didn't matter how many died as long ass the few with the better skills lived to form the new world if needed.

World War Z: Around the World, And Above

This chapter talks about how countries around the world dealt with the zombie invasion. In European countries, many people used the castles from medieval times as fortresses to protect themselves against zombies. However safety was not guaranteed, as shown by the outbreak of pneumonia that wiped out the survivors in a castle in Holland. In Asia, North Korea seemed to have just disappeared off the face of the earth, China had started a civil war and in Japan, the narrator interviews a teacher and his student about how they survived against the odds in order to become skilled zombie exterminators. The civil war in China was so bad that even in space, an American astronaut deduced that Chinese astronauts were killed after an argument about which side was the right one. In other countries, Cuba became the center of manufacturing, and shipped out goods to provide for the whole world and at a conference in Honolulu, world leaders made the decision to go on attack mode to take down the zombies once and for all. What struck out to me the most was the fact that not one of the IR operators mentioned in the beginning of the chapter are alive today because they couldn’t take the emotional toll of answering and hearing transmissions of thousands of cries for help from civilians.

Turning the tide

This chapter was mostly about the Redeker Plan, what its about and the aftermath of it. I found the Redeker Plan extremely interesting because I feel that you would have to be inn very hard times to create a plan like that and actually have people go through with it. The plan was about creating two safe zones as a way to protect themselves from the zombies the first safe zone was not actually safe at all and it was the people that were not "necessary" to the survival of humans. They were used at a diversion for the zombies so the other group can escape without being followed. The other group is the higher up people in the world such as government leaders, military, and political people. They were going to go to a place that they could protect themselves from the zombies that was hopefully by a mountain or other natural protective barrier. I could not believe that someone could actually think up a plan like this and the government actually go along with it. At first they though he was crazy but they realized that it was the only way to safe as many as possible and start over.

World War Z chapter 6: Home Front USA

Chapter 6, Home Front USA, was mainly about getting the remaining American Citizens back on there feet to help the country's "safe zone" in any way they could. People that had a 'white-collar' skill set, labeled F-6, were immediately put to in unskilled labor, which included digging graves, cleaning the streets, cleaning chimneys, etc. People that had war-needed skills were labeled as A-1, and they were the most useful, probably in keeping the safe-zone safe. The part that really stood out to me was how many people were siding with the zombies. That some claimed that they shouldn't stop God's will, and others said that the zombies were doing mother nature's job, which I can only think is getting rid of humans. I think it's just ridiculous how, instead of trying to fight and save themselves, they think that the zombies are a higher calling and that they shouldn't fight the inevitable.

World War Z: Home Front USA

This chapter was about interviews with people across the USA. One person talked about getting America back on its feet after the zombie apocalypse had started. He labeled people an F-6 or A-1. F-6 people were put into unskilled labor because they weren't skilled in what the US needed during the war. A-1 people became part of the Community Self-Sufficiency Program. Rich people were mad about having plumber or construction workers be their bosses, but some people were happy with their new jobs. They worked on three things they did that helped the allies win World War II, which is why they started on doing it again during this war.

World War Z chapter 5: Turning the Tide

Chapter 5, Turning the Tide, was mainly about what was going on after the great panic and what the government and their military were doing to keep everything together, and keep the zombies away from where they are. One part of the chapter that I found interesting was how Paul Redeker re-did Plan Orange, and turned it into "Orange Eighty-four", which was a plan on who lived, and who was sacrificed amongst the African population. Who was chosen was determined by IQ, income, fertility, and anything that seemed a desired quality or trait about that person. But what was even more surprising, that even though this plan made him the most hated man in Africa, when people came for him, they wanted the plan to be taken into effect, and it did. I am just shocked at how desperate they were that they were ready to keep a few of their citizens and then throw the majority out as bait to keep the zombies away from the ones they actually want saved.

World War Z: Turning the Tide

This chapter takes place in South Africa, Ireland, Ukraine, Canada, and India. In the section that took place in South Africa was about a man named Paul Redeker. Redeker was one of history's most controversial figures as many people thought of him as a savior, while others considered him evil. But most people considered him, dispassionate. They believed this because he wants everyone to shed their humanity and lose all emotions. He wrote papers about alternate solutions to quandaries pertaining to history. After he wrote these, the South African government took notice of him and hired him to revise their survival plan, "Orange." Due to his lack of emotion and great logic, he was even able to calculate who should be rescued and who shouldn't which would eliminate the need for the use of as many resources as trying to save everyone. When the Great Panic began, the NIA came to Redeker to find out if he had a plan for the zombie apocalypse, which he did have one in 3 easy steps. Shortly after, no one had ever seen Redeker again, as he is at an insane asylum.

The Great Panic

          The Great Panic, this chapter is about the fact that people begin to understand and realized that Zombies are proberly real.This chapter shows how people were rushing to the coast just to get the boat and swim . It amazed me and for those who were able to swam, they were pulled by the Zombies under the water. I think this is  scary because they are risking their life and taking money for other people  to ride in their boat.

         There was an extreeme situation where a girl, Sharon recalls when her mother tried to strangle her believing that it was act out of love because sharon mother believe she was trying to prevent her daughter from becoming infected by Zombie. Sorry, but  I am not a fan of this book!

Turning the Tide

This chapter discusses the way various governments had to make tough decisions to deal with the outbreak. Much of the chapter is focused on how the different versions of the Redeker plan were carried out in various countries who sacrificed there own citizens for security. One particularly drastic example of this came from the Rajastahn, India chapter where a BRO officer is charged with blowing up a road in the Himalayas to secure the mountain from zombies but the road is still full of refugees trying to cross. The army was unable to keep the panicked civilians from trying to cross so the order was given to blow the bridge up no matter how many people were on it. The general explained how even if they refused, the air force would just bomb the thing which would destroy part of the mountain which would provide the zombies access to the other side making the barrier useless. After the charges fail to explode, General Raj-Singh sacrifices himself to complete the mission. The thing that stood about about this chapter for me is the imagery of the zombies falling off the cliff when Khan wakes up. He described as sounding like water droplets dripping but in reality it was the horde still trying to get to him and falling, in turn, to hit the valley far below.  

World War Z: Turning the Tide

This chapter was mainly about the aftermath of the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse and what militaries and the governments were doing to keep the living dead as far from their territories as possible. A story that caught my attention was told by a girl named Jesika, who lived in Sand Lakes Provincial Wilderness Park, Manitoba, Canada. Her story was about her and her families "trip" to go as far north as possible. This is what they all thought would be the safest idea. She talked of the fun they had at first, everyone being so nice, singing songs by a campfire, until it all came to an end. Slowly, they ran out of food and resources, no more wood to burn, no more fish to catch, or animals to hunt. People began fighting and hating each other, stealing from one another. Everyone just waited for winter to start, then couldn't wait for it to be over. What I thought was most interesting was that she said they couldn't wait for winter because the Zombies would freeze, but as soon as winter came to an end, they melted, and were back to the way they were. Ready to eat brains.

World War Z: Turning the Tide

The beginning of the chapter starts out by introducing a character named Paul Redeker. Paul Redeker was a figure despised in South Africa for having previously created a plan to save the white minority in the event of a revolt by the black majority against the apartheid system. However, because of his ability to separate logic and reason from emotion, he was able to create an efficient survival plan that not only helped South Africa survive the zombie apocalypse, but also served as a blueprint for other countries to survive as well. During this period, there were massive evacuations being undertaken and many refugees continued crossing over borders and into “safe” havens. However this migration of people posed many problems. In the capital of Ukraine, it became increasingly difficult to separate the uninfected from the infected. As a result, high command resorted to their last resort by having a fighter jet use chemical weapons on the refugees being evacuated in order to identify the infected. Another example was the migration of many Americans into Canada, hoping that the winter would make zombies immobile. However, many people died from hunger or the cold because no one planned beyond a stay of a few months. In my opinion, the most extreme example took place in India. A pass that refugees were passing over was blown up to stop the millions of zombies following the refugees from getting through. What stood out to me the most was that because the detonators did not go off as planned, the general in charge was so devoted to his mission that he set them off manually and gave his own life.