Friends,
I just finished the WWZ, and let me tell u it was pretty different. I mean there were no main character, not even a protagonist. guess u could call the zombies antagonists but to me they really aren't. Have you guys ever seen the movie, I AM LEGEND, thats what this book reminded me of. But in a different way. Both portray a world going to the dust but in different manners.
WWZ is told in a biography description. There is no narrator, there are no main character. The narator is unknown, but it seems that he or she is interviewing serveral people to talk about the zombie pandemic accuring around the world. First we are brought into a discussion with a Chinese diplomat who discusses the beginnings of the disease. A boy was fishing in CHina but was bitten. Then he continued to describe how the boy's body literally tore itself apart. tHE DISEASE BEGAN TO SPREAD AOUND QUICKLY, AND chINA SEEMED TO TRY and keep it a secret. Even the CIA didnt know what was going on because they thoiught that there was a givernment rebellion going on at the time. It is pretty funny because it seems likely that the United States would miss something like that just at the possibility at the communist regime in China to collapse. But then again our economy wouldn't do so well if it did. Anyway sson the whole world goes into chaos and it is amazing!! I mean if it happened in the real world that would suck but the way the author demonstrates politics and zombies is amazing. The author doesn't really focus on the zombies themselves as many books do, but on our reaction to them. Obviously like books like blindness, there are those who dont care about the infected, and decide to Quarantine the victims which I totally disagree with.
I know we have to defend the public to help the people but comeone there has to be a way to help these people i mean look at I AM LEGEND, that guy didnt give up.
Anyways of course the world heads come together and interestingly enough the author makes the united States be the country that decides to come to the offensive side. True un the book the US is the one that suffers most, considering the Great Panic that happens there but why is it there that wants to kill. Arent we the country that everyone comes to for help? Especially for humanitarian reasons. Why? Because the US started as such a noble cause and we were the first o nes to truly rise and become a great power so everyone. But then again sometimes I see it to be hypocritical. I mean I feel like the united States government doesnt really care, but uses that image as a mask for the true intentions.
But anyways usually I hate politics. Why u ask? Because it is so ruthless. There are no morals and it can destroy so may people. True politics can be seen in Roman times, and I mean lok what happened there they freakin stabbed Caesar, and it wasnt by assassins, it was byhis colleagues. I think that is what the book demonstrates, what the power of politics can do to destroy people, literally. I mean by the end of the book the human race is one its way towards extinction, not just because of the zombies, if I might add. I dunno I guess in my opinion politics is such a show. It is like in the book ANNA KARININA where the whole russian views of the outside is so restless and life consuming. It really destroys lives, and we make it so nessescary, why? Competition. We all want to be better than the next, but most are humble about it. No our society makes us be humble, because if we arent we are scorned. This is a very complicated part of life and I am so happy that I am not a part of it.
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