Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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.

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