World War Z-the great panic summary

                                                                                  Anmol Sethi

Chapter 4

            Chapter 4 continues with the interview style trend. He first interviews Gavin Blaire who tells his version of what he remembers from the great panic. He mentions how congested the highway was and then mentions how he saw the zombies attack their way through the highway. He then heads to India where he speaks to Ajay Shah who headed for Alang in order to get away from the zombies. This was a fatal mistake as Alang is famous ships’ graveyard. However he manages to get away and seek help from a crewman. He continues onto Kansas where he meets Sharon, who lacks social skills. This has occurred because she was left alone around zombies. She cannot speak and mimics a zombie. The author goes to Russia and meets with Maria Zhuganova. She tells her strange story about her adventure on the platoon with the zombie. He then goes off to Barbados and speaks to Sean who is paid to protect others from zombie attacks.

 The author meets with Ahmed from Greenland and he tells his story that occurs during the tension between India and Pakistan. The zombies had attacked Iran and Iran asked Pakistan for help. The help was not given and Iran blew up the Ketch River Bridge. This incited nuclear warfare. The last interview takes place in Denver with Todd Wainio. Todd was in a small suburb called Yonkers when he was experiencing the great panic. There was a huge zombie warfare between the civilians and the zombies.

I thought that it was really interesting how there were so many different perspectives in this chapter about the great panic. The section that stuck out to me symbolically was the interview with Ahmed. This is because I find it ironic that during zombie warfare, the war between India and Pakistan was still going on in full swing. It was interesting that even when Iran needed help, Pakistan was not willing to give it to them and Iran retaliated in order to get their point across. I think this is symbolic because it explains a great human flaw, which is that even in the face of a crisis; we are unable to look past our ego and pride in order to help someone else.