Zombies and Human Nature in "World War Z"

             I am going to be straightforward as I can be, I do not like zombies. Never have,
             never will. Therefore, I struggled reading "World War Z." I tried to have an open mind, but
             the documentary style isn't interesting to me either. I know this is all a matter of taste, and
             I am probably in the minority. I've never been one to follow the crowd, so I'm not about
             to jump on the zombie bandwagon just because everybody else has. In "World War Z,"
             though, the zombies were not the only monsters. Humans do monstrous things as well
             Zombies bore me. That is the simplest way to sum up my dislike for them. I like
             my monsters to have a bit of intellect. With zombies, you don't get even a flicker. You can't even
             say they have pure animal instinct. Animals are more intelligent by leagues! I did not like
             Rawhead, but I'd take him over a zombie any day. The slow moving feature and human flesh-
             eating penchant does not do it for me, and that's really all any zombie is. In "World War Z," Brooks
             made them strong, made it possible for them to walk along the bottom of oceans and
             survive, but those additional differences were not enough; they were still the same old
             "World War Z" is actually kind of about the human condition, conveyed largely through the
             reactions people have to the zombies. The book is a series of interviews from the survivors of the
             Zombie War. Although this style did not appeal to me, I did find some of the interviews interesting.
             I also noticed that some of the interviewees or the things that happened to them could be
             considered monstrous. Breckinridge "Breck" Scott is the first interviewee who had
             monster written all over his face. He developed a vaccine for the zombie epidemic. It was
             a rabies vaccine, and the zombie disease was labeled African rabies. Of course, he knew
             full well this vaccine wouldn't protect against a zombie bite. "All I did was wha
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