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.