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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