Zombies and American Society.

        Vampire Gentlemen and Zombie Beasts by Angela Tenga, and Elizabeth Zimmerman. The article goes into comparisons between the monsters, and society now. The two authors talk about how America can relate to one more than another, and why that is the reason for this new-found fascination. Zombies are gross beasts that only want to eat you. They have no other function than to eat you. There is no communication between one another, there is only the goal of getting more flesh. They are never satisfied, they do not give up, they are always looking for a meal to sink their disgusting teeth into.
        Vampires are the most elegant of all the monsters. They are good looking, rich, powerful, and almost human. They can live forever, and can seduce their victims. Vampires are a thing of the past because of how unrelated they are to America. That's right, America is a zombie. Vampires are the top 1% in this country, and not many people can relate to the way they live. They live a life of luxury, and have their victims invite themselves over to get their blood sucked.
        Zombies have to always be working, and sometimes they don't get to eat. They don't give up, they don't get frustrated (they have no feeling), and are a true representation of USA.

reading response--home front USA

There was a lot going on in this chapter. A certain 4 people had to be chosen and used for " bait " towards the zombies. cannibalism begins to occur in this chapter of course there was shame upon the people for participating but it was the only way to survive so it wasn't spoken of.  People start reminiscing on the "good times." everyone was traveling north per government orders. A lot of people had to take jobs that they were over qualified for to get them back on their feet. Turning all white collar workers into blue collar needed more of them then white--which meant labor work like farmers and running big machines. I felt like this kind of made it more real feeling as i was reading it, almost as if it kept painting the picture of like the time era of a great depression. Although the world was already in a way worse state than a great depression i think its a good comparison.

Reading response- warning with out blame

the beginning of the book takes place in china. Theres an interviewer who goes around interviewing several people in different countries. the book its kinda skippy at the begging going from once place to another. a little hard to follow at sometimes. In the chapter with out blame it takes about patient zero and how the outbreak first started. a kid shows up infected with something so therefore he was strapped down. The kid rips his arm outta socket,  and while his arm is out of socket it keeps moving. this was a very visual part for me. i couldn't stop trying to imagine in my head what this woulda looked like. The military begin to move in and control the situation quietly.  They send out what is called " zombie hunters " They believe that this could of all started from the organ donations they've been receiving. There was a fake pill made that was called a vaccine. it was mainly made to just decrease the amount of panic and calm peoples nerves. I think thats a great idea to some extent, lying to your community will only get you so far in the long run.

Turing the tide

This chapter is about the interviewing of a person named X Azania. This person then decribes a man named Paul Redeker, The most hated man in Africa. In this chapter "plan orange" the plan was to save all the rich people. This was for lack of better words a failure because the rich people didnt know how to do hands on work, one because they never had to. So it is safe to say their survival skills lacked in many areas. But this chapter did show how roles change when it came to having to do hard labor. All in all the chapter was mainly about the rebuilding of the US. I enjoyed this chapter because of the perspective that it gave the reader.

Total War

I chose to respond to Total War because I felt this chapter was the most knowledgeable. I was really interested in the point made that there is no such thing as total war when it comes to the human race. In order to achieve total war every person from a country would have to devote every second of everyday to the cause, this is impossible because humans need to eat, sleep, etc. However the zombies could achieve this because all they are about is the consumption of human flesh. Another point made in this chapter was the difference in the zombie army and the human army. One the zombies are not really a army. They are more or less each individual that happens to be on the same side. They do not have a central command, nor do they take orders or develop strategy, it is all about eating. Humans however have this, but fighting this type of army would prove to be difficult. Because of the fact that the only way to defeat them is to kill all of them. you can not starve them out, cut off supplies or anything of that nature. I really liked this chapter of the book because of how it broke down the battle of both sides.

Chapter 9-Good Byes

The chapter I choose to talk about this blogger is Good Byes. In this chapter, the first interview takes place in Vermont with a man named Clement Attlee. This man is believed that the goal in order the zombies everyone had to pitch in and end up doing the job they were supposed to do. The next interview took place in Lake Baikal. It was about a women named Maria and how she got pregnant. Also explains how Russia got a new czar who made Russia strong once again. The next interview took place in Barbados, it was about a man named Sean who was addicted to killing and didn't know how to stop once the apocalypse ended. In Montana, the interviewer interviewed a women named Mary Jo. She explained how it was peoples fault that the zombie apocalypse happened and we should blame ourselves. The next interview took place in China and it was about how children are starting to look okay now since the zombie apocalypse is over. In Washington, he met up with a man named Joe and he believes that the apocalypse was good because it brought everyone more together. In the New Mexico interview is about the finances and the money police. In Japon, it is about how they want to get an agreement between the Kondo's belief and Tomonaga's belief. In Ireland, Phillip talks about how they lost more then just people when we left them for the dead.  In Israel, he interviewed Jurgen. Jurgen believes that there is no survivors from World War Z even though people lived; they are still traumatized. Then the interview with Tracy Bowden, it was about whales and how they came close to extinction. The last interview was in Denver, it was about how Waino is still kind of traumatized and how he doesn't really celebrate even though the zombie apocalypse is over.

The reason this chapter is important in my opinion is because it explains life after the apocalypse and how people are living with it. You get the view point of people and see how they are after the war. I personally like this chapter because it explains how people are still suffering from World War Z and how they have to start their lives over. This topic brings up the aftermath of the zombie war. We can discuss how people feelings have changed on war.

Minutes

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Travis (the general) received orders to attack. The battle strategy has changed to old school fighting.
The difference between zombies and humans is: humans had to sleep and eat, zombies could fight all the time so, they were never in total war. Zombies also had no structure to fighting, they just fed on instinct. Three words: Lead, Breed, and Feed meaning, they need to 'breed' enough soldiers and hace enough resources for them to make sure they all have gear, ammo, food, shelter, and clothes. Conventional tactics were used to try to stop the zombies like cutting off their resources, but they did not need anything! Since they weren't human you couldn't bleed them out either. If zombies kill a human it was +1 for the zombies, on the other hand if humans killed a zombie it was just -1.

Colorado: Kevlar gear provided protection from getting bitten. Yonkers didn't use as much modern technology. The rifle bayonet is introduced as a close combat weapon, not used by Yonkers that kept fighting distant.

Good-byes: Last chapter summarizes all the previous regions, complete recap.
After the war, they must rebuild mankind, uteruses are essential, because of so much death. Zombie war was a good because it brought human kind together.

Final thoughts
Differences from the novel and film:
-Interviews jump to different regions, no travel
-Controversial film from the adaptation standpoint
-How Israel built the wall (closest to the book)
-Zombies seem more intelligent in the movie than in the book
-In the film, humans find the weakness and defeat, in the book there is no known cure
-Centralized around Brad Pitt, it's harder to follow and loses attention of viewer, this adaptation makes it easier to bond with he main character and root for the central protagonist

Audience/Genre
-late teens, college students, live their world through books
-older people don't find zombies interesting
-younger teens would;t catch the underlying problems, those connections add to the context of the story, world politics
-20's- 30's, depends on the person 20-44 book
-Film expandes audience 13-60
-Captures your attention, people watch the movie first and then read the book
-Some just went to see Brad Pitt, more than a panic rather than an outbreak
-Different form zombies, they don't eat your brains just bite you, which is not as graphic
-Action packed!
-This film fits mainstream script