World War Z - Reaction

This book is about a doctor who has been trying to get his information about Zombie's published to the world, but the United Nations Postwar Commissions Report thought his information was too intimate, had too many feelings in it. This book is made up of people's personal recollections that they had with Zombie's. Throughout the book there is an obvious, expected bias to the Zombies. It is story after story about people getting hurt, or by people trying to go the West to get healed from the infection, and how this infected is highly contagious. The doctor is successful, and proud of it. He is going around to different countries, patient after patient, trying to figure out what is happening. At one point, he is able to witness a heart surgeon, that he helped perform a heart transplant, bent over another man eating part of his body. The doctor thinks that the infection is being spread from all the organs donated from China to all around the world. A major theme in the book, is how everyone that has encountered this infection, tries to deny it and call it something else, like rabies, or the flu, or just an illness. What they don't know, is that soon it will become a global issue.

Pages: 6-7 (Description of the patient's wound).

In this section, the doctor is looking at the first patient he sees that has been bitten by a Zombie, but he doesn't know that yet. He describes how the patient's wound is peculiar, different that anything he's ever seen, and how it didn't really make sense. How the injury was so clean, for having a chunk ripped out of the arm; and how the wound was bleeding. He also noticed how the wound, from being bitten by a human which has bacteria, wasn't infected either. The patients were also "writhing like an animal", which doesn't happen with other wounds. He knew that something had, in a way, possessed these people. This section is important in the whole of the story because of how it describes the wound, not having to describe it every time, and how it gives us evidence of how these kinds of wounds are different from any other kind of injury. It is important for us to know how these wounds looked, and how the people were reacting to them, so that we get a sense of how dangerous and serious this was. I didn't like how the doctor automatically knows that the bite was from another human being, how he doesn't even give it a change to have possibly been from something else. He very quickly jumps into the fact that it is a Zombie bight.