World War Z Pt. 1

     Why are all things made in China?  The infection in World War Z began in an abandoned village in China called Old Dachang where a young man and his father went "moon fishing."  Supposedly moon fishing is illegal but the mother stated that the village was their old home and they went to retrieve some lost items.
     The narrator's name in the first chapter is not given.  He/she is a doctor in China and get an emergency call from the hospital sending him/her to an area where a young boy is being kept with a deadly infection.  What a great way to start a zombie story.  Going to an isolated area to inspect a young by who has an contagious infection and is trying everything to give it to another host.  The doctor is very cocky and thinks that he/she is not afraid of being in the same room as this boy.  The boy's skin was grey as cement and the wounds created by his restraints were not bleeding or even red.  The boy did not have a pulse which is a huge indication that the boy is a zombie.  Yet, with any good zombie story or film, the characters seem oblivious to the fact that the "infected" are not human and they shouldn't go anywhere near them, but they do anyways because it makes for good entertainment.  Just the other day I was told that Hollywood is filming a movie based on this book staring Brad Pitt.  This story would be a great movie and a haven't even read much of the book.  I chose this book because I love zombie stories and especially movies.  That fact that there may be a chance that you will get infected intrigues me because I would want to know how to survive something like that or help the people I love survive something that extreme.
     There is one pat in this story that I don't fully understand.  When the narrator comes to this isolated area where the boy is infected, there are other bodies there that also have bite marks but aren't alive or "undead."  They are just corpses laying around like trash.  Why aren't they zombies or have they become undead and the villagers already shot them?  Yet the narrator did not specify if there were any gun shot wounds, only bite marks from the boy.  I guess I'll have to keep reading.  Also I've seen and read in other stories about zombies that the military and the Ministry of Health are involved but never seem to do a good job of containing the virus.  Eventually one person makes a small mistake and it results in the spread of the infection.  Also I notice that the military and Ministry of Health always seemed terrified even though they are trained to handle the most extreme situations like containing an infection.  If they do their jobs then the infection won't spread.  Yet, if they do their jobs then Hollywood and novelists wouldn't make any money because those stories and movies wouldn't sell.  There's that sense of excitement and suspense that drives authors to write about zombies and its the reason I enjoy reading zombie stories.  I great example of a good infection movie is I am Legend starring Will Smith. It's one of my all-time favorite movies because of the suspense the movie creates in multiple scenes.  Plus Will Smith is in it so he just makes the movie 10 times better.  World War Z created that same suspense when the narrator was inspecting the young boy then one of his assistants let go of the boy's arm to reposition himself and the boy jerked and came loose.  The narrator and his assistants sprinted for the door and shut it as fast as they could behind them while the boy is just dragging himself with one arm because the other arm snapped when he jerked.  Picturing that just gives me the chills.  The infection has taken over the boy's body.  The boy himself is not there.  His soul has been replaced with this nasty infection, and since infections don't have emotions or feelings, the infection makes the body look like it doesn't care that the arm is broken.  It's too focused on transferring more infection cells to another host.  Very creepy.  In conclusion I'm excited to see where the infection travels next and how many people it will consume.

Favorite Sentences

"Only the strong survive" - Only the Strong Survive.  This sentence is from a biography of legendary basketball player Allen Iverson and this sentence summarizes the entire book.  Iverson had a tough route to the NBA, dealing with drugs, family problems, and friend issues which shaped him into the person he is now.

"I prayed they would not notice the color draining from my face." - World War Z.  This sentence is said by the narrator in the first chapter after the infected young boy broke away from his chains while the doctor was inspecting him and chased them out of the room.  The doctor (narrator) was so terrified yet he didn't want to show it because he is a cocky person and a "man."  That fact that he was so terrified made me laugh.  It was like a annoying self-centered character in a movie finally dying or something of the sort.

"His voice was flat, roboticm as if he had rehearsed this speech or was reading from something" - World War Z.  The narrator called up his best friend that's also a doctor to help him diagnose this young man's infection.  Once he told the doctor his symptoms, the doctor frooze and said the line above like he knew what was going to happen and wha the results were going to be if he didn't do something about it quickly.