worldwarz


 * //WORLD WAR Z //**

Group Rules:
 - If a member fails to do their responsible work for the end of the week, he must have the tasks thoroughly completed over the weekend, and it must be posted by the end of the weekend.  - If he still does not take accountability of the extra time given and fails to have the work posted on this wikispace, he must have the over-due work done by the following Monday. Also, for the next book club, he must read the pages that are required and do all of the work for the other members.  - If someone gets out of control and still does not do any of this work, he should get a zero for participation or the final book club grade.

=Week 1 (pg 1-70) =

Part A (Jack): On your group's wiki page, describe the main characters in your text. What makes them interesting? What is their story or background? Why are you drawn to them? Conversely, are there any characters that you just cannot stand? Why not?  There are only two characters in the story. There is the interviewer and the men being interviewed. One of the man being interviewed tells about his life of being a doctor when the zombie apocalypse broke loose, who became very rich during the beginning of the apocalypse. He is very interesting because he tells his open opinions on the early stages of the zombies breaking out, so we get to hear how it started and how the people did not realize how bad the situation was. There are only two characters and they don't bother me yet.

 Part B (Jordan): 1.) "The patients were carried out on stretchers, their limbs shackled, their mouths gagged. Next, they went for the boy. He came out in a body bag. His mother was wailing as she and the rest of the village were rounded up for 'examinations.'" pg 9

 2.) "I went back to Herr Muller's room, I knocked several times. I heard nothing. I whispered his and Silva's manes. No one responded. I noticed blood seeping out from under the door. I entered and found it covering the floor. Silva was lying in the far corner, Muller crouching over him... Muller turned to me, bits of bloody meat falling from his open." pg 24-25

 3.) "Something grabbed me from behind, pulled at my collar, tore the fabric. I spun, ducked, and kicked hard. He was large, larger and heaver then me by a few kilos. Black fluid ran down the front of his white shirt. A knife protruded from his chest, jammed between ribs and buried to the hilt. A scrap of my collar, witch was clenched between his teeth, dropped as his lower jaw fell open." pg 30

 4.) "As we approached the border, I saw the Wall for the first time. It was still unfinished, naked steel beams rising above the concrete foundation." pg 40

 5.) "I'm not sure when the other dogs started barking, or when I heard the car alarm don the street. It was when I heard something that sounded like a gunshot that I went to the den." pg 66

 Part C (Jack, Justin): <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1.) How scared would you be if you were infected with the early stages of the disease? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">I would be pretty scared if I was infected with the disease at early stages of the Zombie Apocalypse because no other person contracted this disease ever before. However, it would also depend on the time of when the disease is developed because if other people had this disease before me and it was not that serious, then I would be less fearful. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2.) Would you ever think that the Zombie Apocalypse would result in so many deaths, why or why not? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Yes, I would think that the Zombie Apocalypse would result in so many deaths because in the beginning the interviewee states “I was scared, truly scared, of this frail child.” The frail child’s skin was cold and gray as the cement on which he lay on and it took more than one person to initially control him. Also, the interviewee states that the bite radius and teeth marks cam from a young human being. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3.) Would you be surprised if one of your love ones travels all the way to another country in hope of a cure just for you, why or why not? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">I would be surprised if a loved one traveled all the way to another country because all of the other people would similarly be traveling to the city for a cure, but the likelihood of finding the cure is so slim. If the loved one came back without a cure, then it would truly be a waste of time and death would certainly approach either way. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4.) How shocking was it to hear that outbreaks of the disease were mostly beginning at hospitals and that human organs were illegally being smuggled to other regions? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">When reading the first part, it was shocking. But after reading later and finding out that organs were illegally being transported, it was not that scary because there are other organ transplants taking place at the same time. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5.) On page 31, why do you think the narrator refers to the woman and girls as his mothers and sisters? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The narrator refers to the woman and girls as his mother and sisters because the mother and children were so precious, and he was referring back to his memory. Also, saw how the connection between his own mother and children. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">6.) When the doctor says that vaccines and other medical treatments were purchased because the people feared, do you think this is correct? Also, do you think the media was not revealing the truth because they feared the people would not be able to manage themselves? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> I think both of these are correct because the people are going to purchase the vaccines out of fear and overtime the vaccine has a chance of benefiting the people. Also, the media would not reveal the truth because they would get more chaotic if they discovered that zombies were truly devastating the humans on earth.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part D (Justin):

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">On Friday, October 1, Jack and I (Justin) reviewed the main characters of our text, how they were interesting, and how we connected to them. First, it was a bit difficult to have this book club session with only two members since our dieas were at shared to the same potential of having three members. Still, we discovered that the text was primarily composed of an interview format between characters such as a doctor and an interviewer. Interestingly, as we spoke about the information that the doctor divulged, we realized that vaccines were being sold to the people and that the media could not bluntly reveal many of the truths regarding the Zombie Apocalypse. This was because it would instill fear and agitation to the surviving people, but importantly we related this to our society and questioned whether the mainstream media sometimes concealed the truths regarding diseases or outbreaks in America. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Also, since Jordan was not present on Friday, Jack and I briefly went over all of his quotes and tried our best to analyze its importance. Frankly this was one of the more difficult parts because we were conversing about the quotes, but we did not know what Jordan's interpretation of the quotes were, causing us to be in disbelief at times. Next, we answered the questions that we each created for part c; Jack thought of three questions and asked me to provide my feedback for each and I did the same for my three questions. Many of these questions were personal ones because we tried to relate the distress form the zombies war with our personal lives. Fortunately, with two members for the first book club meet, Jack and I covered a substantial amount of information from what we read, thus far. We are looking forward to a full book club meet for week two

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Week 2 (pg 71-140) =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part A (Justin) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the type of language that your book contains. Is it easy to read? Conversational? "Classic"? Does it use a lot of words you don't understand? What grade level do you think the book is written at, and why? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">World War Z incorporates the style of an interview in its text. This allows for the readers to understand what the topic is focused on because the interviewer's question is stated in the story. Generally, this type of language is easy to read, and because of the back and forth writing style, the book is quite conversational. This book does not have words that I cannot comprehend because most of the difficult terms are history-related, but the author does an exceptional job explaining what the word pertains to. Therefore, this book is not one filled with challenging words; however, it most likely written for students in high school. This book is written at the high school level or higher because the concepts may be very new to those younger, as much of it deals with history and eccentric ideas.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part B (Jack) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1. "'Give me your money,' some of them would say, 'everything you have, then I'll take you'" (71).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2. I could see the tip of his rifle was shaking. He was a skinny little runt, not the bravest or the strongest, but suddenly he lowered his weapon and said he wouldn't do it. Just like that. "No sir" (79). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3. "I don't think anybody ever heard of it. I sure as hell hadn't, and now it's up there with, like, Pearl Harbor..."(93). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4. "They say 11 million people died that winter, and that's just North America" (129) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5. "This is the turning point of the war. We're finally safe!" (136).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part C (Jordan (3), Jack (1), and Justin (1))

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1. How did the Russians control their soldiers and keep them from knowing the truth? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Russians were very harsh in their methods. The army cut off all of the soldiers' communication with the outside world. When the soldiers started getting suspicious about the infection, the "specialist" on zombies killed the soldier leader and punished the rest very harshly. They separated the soldiers into groups of ten and made them vote on which of the ten they want dead. Then, all of the other nine take turns bashing the others' head in with a rock. If they refused to do this, they would be shot.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2. Why did the sand at Yonkers fail? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Yonkers was a huge mistake. The soldiers were over equipped against this kind of enemy. There was no need for bullet-proof vests. Also, all of the tanks only had three shoots and they ran out of ammo very quickly. Finally, they were outnumbered a couple hundred to millions. The number one factor though, was that the soldiers can't instill fear into the zombies.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3. What was the Redeker Act and what country was it for? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Redeker Act of South Africa was a horrible thing to do to anyone. It saved a small group of people while it killed the rest of the survivors. What it did was while a small group of people escaped north, the rest of the survivors were scattered around the country in large groups. These groups would draw the zombies away from the main group and buy them time to escape.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">4. In relation to the Redeker Act, what was the purpose of the "safe zones﻿" and how did it affect the people? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The purpose of the safe zones was to advocate the Redeker Act. Since the Redeker Act stated that everyone would not be able to be saved because the outbreak went too far. In response, the safe zones were where those who were left behind stayed. They were to be like human bait and distract the undead from following the retreating army. Therefore, the isolated, and healthy refugees were to be kept alive and resupplied to keep the undead rooted to the spot.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">5. What did people attempt to try to make the ships? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">To catch the ships many people dove into the water. Some were pulled in but many died. The crazy thing was that many infected people drowned and became zombies then they would pull other people in the water and eat them. One man with no money thought a zombie grabbed him but it was really a person dragging him on the ship.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part D (Jordan)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Since we had a full group, we were able to have better discussions and debates. Although I wasn't here last week, I can tell that it went much better with three people as opposed to two. For part A, lead by Justin, we had several debates over how we interpreted the text. Some parts were confusing for some people and the other two in the group would explain it to them, and other parts people just had different views on. The quotes Jack selected were excellent. The meaning behind them and what they stand for are great. We talked about the fourth quote a lot. We debated whether the 11 million dead were from just the cold alone, people killing other people, zombies, or a mix of any of these. The book left that open to interpretation. Lastly, for part C in which everyone contributed in. We had disputes on most all of them. For the first one, everyone had a little bit of a different view on the topic. All of the group members interpreted "Rat Face" differently. I thought he was an export on zombies. For the second question, everyone had different answers because there was so many things that went wrong. All of us would miss one or two things the book said and the other group members would fill them in. These are just a few examples for what happened with all five of the questions. The only thing I would change for next week is the food. I plan on bringing doughnuts for my group (if I can remember). I'm really looking forward to next week's meeting,

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Week 3 (pg 141-210) =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part A (Jordan) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the mood or tone of your book.What is the overriding emotion of this book? What examples back up your claim? (A) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> We thought this book had a very negative tone. Many people are dying and you are reading their first hand accounts of this very grim situation. We are reading about how some people would kill their best friend if they got bitten, or hunt other humans for food. The one section of the book that was really bad though was the Ubunye radio which is described below. The people working there received distress calls from fellow humans all around the world and they couldn't even respond to them. By the end of the war, every person that worked for the radio killed themselves except for the narrator of the section, and he seemed very depressed. Justin, though, saw it on the brighter side and explained that the governments were making plans to save the human race and he was very optimistic.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part B (Jack, Justin) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1. "He was a male adult, midthrities. Dirty, dazed, shuffling down the sidewalk. We thought he was just in Z-shock, until he bit one of our guys in the arm. That was a horrible few seconds. I dropped the Q with a head shot then turned to check on my buddy" (156). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2. "There were millions of wretched souls scattered throughout our planet, all screaming into their private radio sets as their children starved or their temporary fortress burned, or the living dead overran their defenses" (198). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 3. "I needed every idea, every word, every ounce of knowledge and wisdom to help me fuse a fractured landscape into the modern American war machine" (138). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 4. "They must forever be an example to the rest of us, the strongest, bravest, and absolute best of us" (194). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5. "When the crisis reached Japan, my clique, as with all the others, forgot our previous obsessions and devoted our energies entirely to the living dead" (205).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part C (Jack, Justin) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1. What are the two primary reasons as to why the police taped the deserted houses? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> The two primary reasons as to why the police taped the deserted houses were to detect any zombies shuffling around houses. If the tape was split, this meant that the zombies intruded the houses and it was up for the police to stop them. Also, the other reason was to keep the houses safe from looters, which were people who needed provisions to survive, not those who were pure criminals.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2. If the Chang Doctrine was to be implemented in the north, what would the reaction or feedback be like? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Because North Korea was more radical than the south, they rejected any reform plan because of its dictatorship. If the Chang Doctrine was to be implemented in the north, the leader would detest it and there would be an inconceivable internal crisis. People would rather resort to eating children in the north, even when their government caused a genocidal famine. Also, the people in the north would not obey the doctrine because they were born to believe that their lives were meaningless and had to only serve the State, who was not in favor of the plan.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 3. What problems were there in Washington besides Zombies? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Other than zombies, there are various problems in Washington state. Quislings, or people in Z-shock, were running around acting like zombies. These people went insane under these circumstances. Finally, there was a lot of looting and killing over food whenever supplies ran low. This happens in life today. When Katrina hit, many people took the advantage to rob stores and houses.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 4. What does ADS stand for? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> ADS was a problem all around the safe zone. This was when people people gave up on life and when they fell asleep, they did not wake back up. It was a psychological disorder and didn't just happen when the living dead was at your front door. Even during times of peace in the safe zones, an upward of 100 people died on this day.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5. What was the radio Ubunye? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> The radio Ubunye started as a broadcast for the citizens of South Africa. Since people did not have resources for material aid, the best their government could do was render information. Radio Ubunye later evolved as a multi-bilingual broadcast for the rest of the world, offering survival skills and addressing every fictitious story that was spreading to citizens.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part D (Justin) summary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> For our third book club meeting, it was, once again, with only two out of the three members of our group. Even though we did not bring any food, we were definitely going to try to bring something for week four. Initially, Jordan and I discussed the tone or mood of our book. We mutually felt that the author, Max Brooks, intentionally made the story have an overbearingly ominous mood because it was a book of war and zombies. A few instances of this could be seen when the people in Z-shock bit innocent men in their arm and acted as if they were zombies even though they were not. Despite the tragic accounts of the interviewees represented in the story, I (Justin) felt that at times, the governments of various countries were trying to alleviate the dark mood by introducing the reform plans. For example, the Redeker Act mentioned in week three was supposed to lure the zombies in order to save, at least, the healthy refugees. In this week's read, another plan similar to the Redeker Act was implemented; the Chang Doctrine was supposed to have the same effect as the Redeker Act, only it was for South Korea. Next, since Jack was absent, Jordan and I tried to construe the importance of quotes three to five. Since I found the first two quotes, I asked Jordan to interpret them and we both went over Jack's quotes, too. While going over some of the quotes, we similarly found a part in the story that was interesting to us. The part was when the plane crashed and the abandoned person had to find out how to survive with such limited supplies, but with the help of a woman named Mets. Mets, however, was not a real person and was just a skywatcher whose job was to report on downed aircrews and instruct for rescue. Next, we answered the questions for part c. I created the first two questions for this part, too and Jack did the rest. From these questions, we could tell how the police even reacted to the zombies intruding homes that were not even theirs. They put tape as a signal of invasion and at times, many of the tape breaks signified that mere looters were going around random homes to keep themselves sustained. Also, the other interesting point from the questions we reviewed was radio Ubunye. Amid the apartheid in South Africa, people were in despair and were not notified of the actions of the zombie war. Their government, therefore, had to render information to them and the method of establishing radio Ubunye was beneficial. It provided many people with the techniques to survive, hoping to keep the population of safe people intact. Last, Jordan emailed Jack to make sure to bring in food for week four, and we are expecting the plot of our story to get even better.

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Week 4 (pg. 211-280) =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part A (Jack) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> On your group's wiki page, discuss the themes and images that your book contains. What are some of the images that are used? What do they seem to represent? Why do you think the author uses these images to convey his or her meaning? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Considering that this whole book is about the zombie apocalypse, we are not left with pleasant themes and images. A lot of the images are about destruction of the towns and cities. However, one thing that the author leaves us with that has not crossed our minds before is fear. The author seems to put us in these bad situations and eventually they actually become scary. I think these images are for people who have never been in a helpless situation where they know they are not going to end up okay. The themes are for those people to have a different perspective on life and realize how precious it is just like what the people in the helpless situations think about.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part B (Jordan) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1. "It would not have been 'proper'... Every last one. That time after Tokachi, I dug for three days." 225 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2. "Every day more would arrive, by large ship or private craft, even on homemade rafts that brought an ironic smile to our faces." 230 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 3. "The whole scene was typical of what, I guess, postwar historians are now calling 'the Pacific Continent,' the refugee island culture that had stretched from Palau to French Polynesia." 247 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 4."We made our choice, and, I'd like to think, we made a difference in the end." 264 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5. "For us, our countries, our children, the choice had been made: attack." 269

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part C (Justin) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1. What is Kami and how does it relate to the narrator's reasons for for later using his Ikupasuy? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Kami is a spirit/god in the narrator’s religion. What the narrator was going to do was go into nature and finally end his life. When a bear came along, he was waiting for it to kill him but instead it whimpered and ran away. This gave the narrator a split second warning that saved his life from a zombie right behind him. He thought that the god, Kami, sent the bear to him as a warning to save his life, so he decided to live in the wild of Japan and save its culture.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2. According to Kindo and Tomanaga, what were the motives for staying in Japan? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> The motives for staying in Japan was to take care of the land and to preserve the country. Annihilating it would anger the gods and kill its beauty and purity, so when children return to Japan after the war, there would be nothing left if improperly taken care of. During the war, Kondo and Tomonaga would be facing fifty million monsters, but all would simultaneously have to face the gods.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 3. What was the prewar tropical paradise and why was it important? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Manihi was the prewar tropical paradise. It was the paradise because it was constituted in the Pacific Continent and had food, private boats and huts. These things were essential because refugees relied on these for survival and also, Manihi was the center of trade.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 4. When people observed "zombie holes", what were they looking at? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> People observing zombie holes from their space stations were looking at pits that the undead dug when they were going after burrowing animals. These were spreading all over the world.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5. With the zombies gathering up for war, what was the only method of truly killing them? Also, why is the term "total war" logically inaccurate? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> The only way to beat the zombies was to get them in the head. A head shot was the only way they could actually kill the zombies. Also they could not waist there time by attacking the zombie. They had to try to kill zombies quick and not waist ammo. They just had to shoot one shot to the head. Total war is a very appropriate term for the zombies fighting the war. It means that the zombies were giving 100 percent effort into the war. The people had to eat and sleep but all the zombies did was fight every second.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part D (Jack) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">This week in our book club was definitely the most exciting meeting yet because we had food. Jordan was nice enough to bring in cookies. In addition, the discussion was even better. This week in our book club we had to talk about the themes and images of our story. Since this story was about the zombie apocalypse the themes and images were not positive. When I wrote the themes because i was the leader, i talked about that the they were mostly about destruction and fear. However, Justin and Jordan informed me that it was also about joining together as a union in order to survive, and the book also taught us a few things about all the countries around the world. After we discussed the quotes Jordan wrote. Most of the quotes explain that as the war goes on, it is not getting any easier for people. There are a lot of tough decisions to make and many people are moving to Cuba and the Pacific Continent because they do not have a high population so there is not a lot of zombies. There were also quote that described an astronaut's decision to stay in the satellite which was decaying. Then we went on to read and answer Justin's questions. One of Justin's questions talked about this old Japanese man who was blind. He didn't believe in killing until a bear saved him from a zombie. Then he thought the bear was going to attack him but the bear went away. The man then decided that the gods wanted him to live so that he could kill zombies. There was also another question about the Japanese. The people decided not to leave Japan because there would be nothing left to admire from it. I think this all taught us about Japanese pride. The last question talked about the president of the Untied State decision about the zombies. He wanted everyone to fight and the only way they could win was to hit the zombies right in the head and not to waist ammo. However, it is going to be very hard for the humans to win because the zombies gave total war which meant that they gave 100 percent all the time. I am very excite to read the end of the book and talk about it in the next book club discussion.

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Week 5 (p. 281 to end) =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part A (Jordan) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> On your group's wiki page, discuss your final reflections on this book. Was there a moral or ultimate message to the text? Would you recommend the text to peers? Why or why not? Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? Should this book be considered for the school's curriculum? Will this book go down in history as an "all-time classic" or will it be quickly forgotten? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> All around, this was a very exciting book. The few criticisms, we had were that when they talked about different places, like Israel and its civil war, the author would not go back to the topic. The only real moral in this novel is everyone should stick together. Other than that, there aren't many morals. I would recommend this book to some people but definitely not everyone. Zombies, for the most part, wouldn't be as good of a topic for female readers. I think when the author wrote this book, his audience was teenage boys. I have not read other zombie books, but I have seen several movies about the topic. This book, the way they describe the zombies, make it seem that this could actually be real. I think the zombies were portrait better in this book then in any of the movies I have ever seen. The only possible way this book could be in the curriculum would be a choice book. It is a good book, but definitely not for an in school reading. This movie is supposed to become a movie in a year or two. The only way this book would be remembered is if the movie is a hit, otherwise, it will probably just be another zombie book.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part B (Justin, Jack) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1.) "The army saw it in me that day on a stretch of deserted road somewhere in the Colorado Rockies. I'd been on foot since escaping my apartment in Atlanta, three months of running, hiding, scavenging. I had rickets, fever, I was down to ninety-six pounds." 290 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2.) "The decimations had given our armed forces the strength and discipline to do anything we asked of them, anything but that." 294 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 3.) "The acoustics were evil: they taunted you. Screams and moans came from every direction. You never knew where they were coming from." 311 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 4.) "The numbers are declining, thank heavens, but it doesn't mean people should let down their guard." 329 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5.) "He just smiled and shook his head. I'd made it." 327

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part C (Jack, Justin) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1.) Which type of dog was a major survival asset, and what was their importance? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Daschunds or "badger dogs" were major survival assets because they could hunt in low, badger burrows. Also, they were used as a distraction to occupy to zombies so that the people would not get as easily infected. Their ability to go through pipes, airshafts, in between walls was very useful.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2.) What is the disadvantage that submersibles have in comparison to submarines? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> The disadvantage of submersibles was that they could only stay underwater for a short duration of time, so they were prone to being attacked by zombies. However, submarines were made out of hard outer shells that could easily control the air and maintain its own power. People questioned whether zombies could stay underwater for so long without being affect, but the presence of submarines would eliminate the risk of people being further killed.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 3.) What white zones do the people still need to clear. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Mountain ranges, snow lines, the oceans, and Iceland were the areas people still needed to clear. Unfortunately, clearing the ocean and Iceland was difficult because for one, the officer in Iceland could not regulate the zombies entering the country.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 4.) Why weren't the people celebrating on VA day? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> People weren't celebrating on VA day because they've been fighting this zombie war for so long and wanted to conquer all of the zombies. Peace did not seem real and people were actually waiting to just die because they could not bear the distractions of the zombies. The narrator describes that this day was a dream because it seemed so unreal.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5.) What were the reactions of the people liberated? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> There were many mixed reactions from the people being liberated. The people liberated were called LaMOE’s. It stands for last man on Earth. Some of the LaMOE’s were happy that people came to save them and were saved. Other people were stupid and wanted to be the last man on Earth so they chose not to join the army.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Part D (Jordan)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">We had a great last discussion about “World War Z”. We all enjoyed the book. The idea and how the author portrayed it made it seem so realistic. The only thing that we did not enjoy was the way the author randomly jumped from places to places described in the book. It was a good idea, to get a sense of how all the countries were dealt with the Zombie War and perceived it, but Brooks would never go back. For example, in the beginning, he wrote a lot about how Israel was building its giant wall and the Israeli civil war was occurring, but he never mentioned it again throughout the whole book. Jack and Justin did a great job with their questions and quotes. They captured quotes that vividly characterized the anguish some people experienced. There were a lot of meaningful parts in the end of the book, too. The liberation of the United States and how it was done was an amazing process. It took three whole years to search every square inch of the country. However, the more shocking part was that there were still zombies out there. Iceland, the ocean, mountains, jungles and other islands still had millions of zombies roaming around. If people forget history, just one of these could start this whole thing over again. I personally loved this book, and maybe, in the future, I’ll pick up a zombie book thinking of this one. I can’t wait for future book clubs!