worldwarz

Person A- Matt Song

Person B- Kevin Sinisi

Person C- Nick Delia

Person D- Dan Fridland

Week 1 Quotes
 * 1) "They were there in less than one, fifty men in large army Z-8A helicopters; all wearing hazardous material suits."
 * 2) "These were my partners, how do you think I got my homegrown organs."
 * 3) "It protected them from there fears. That’s all I was selling. Hell because of Phalanax, the biomed sector recovered."
 * 4) "We got dozens of reports a week, every administrarion did, all claiming that there particular boogeyman was the greatest threat to the human exsistance."

Questions
 * 1) How do you think these people are getting infected?
 * 2) If you were a doctor, how would you react to seeing these people getting infected?
 * 3) If you were a president what actions would you take to try to stop the spread of these infections?
 * 4) Why do you think this “virus” is spreading?
 * 5) If you were a parent what would you do to try to stop the zombies from attacking?

Topical Question Response

In World War Z, there are no real main characters, so I’ll talk about the first characters that are being interviewed.

The first person is a Chinese doctor. He lives in a small village and hears about some sick patients. He’s a bit annoyed that he has to take care of some patients and said “This better be serious”. When he got there he noticed people acting scared of the fear that they’ll be infected. At this moment, we see that he is very proud of his country. He states that he is angry at how China is advancing so much but the people here are living like ancient peasants.

The second character introduced is another doctor, except he is Greek. He is doing an organ transplant for a patient, and he finds out that the organ he is putting in is infected and causes the patient to become a zombie. The doctor is quite full of himself and pretty annoying.

Since the presences of these characters are so short lived you don’t really feel a connection to them. Their personalities and traits really don’t flesh out like they would if they had the entire book revolve around them.

Summary of the Meeting

Last Friday, my group had the first book club meeting. We all came in and sat down to begin. Mr. Morone told us to take out our book club books and the food we brought to share with our group. He explained the directions and rules and then let us begin. My group started to discuss the summary of the pages we read. Nobody but me brought food for the group so I shared my cookies with them. After we were done discussing the summary of the pages we read, Kevin found four important quotes. Then Nick came up with five questions about these chapters. We typed all of the quotes and questions in Wiki Spaces as we went along. Matt's job in the group is to answer the questions created by Nick and to keep the group organized and working. THe book club meeting was very interesting and our group learned a lot from it.

Week 2

Topical Question Response.

In World War Z, it's hard to understand whats going on all the time. The language is sometimes scientific when the doctor's are talking. Also, there is a lot of cursing and vulgar language. The setting and characters change often and your often left confused. It is conversational because technically, the narrator is telling the story from his point of view. Also the characters are talking to each other a lot. It is definitely not a classic novel, it was written in an interview style because each character is interviewed. I would say that this book is written more for high school students who enjoy a bloody and action packed zombie book.

Questions


 * 1) How do you think the great panic began?
 * 2) Do you think it was necessary for the traffic jams on the highway?
 * 3) Do you think it is the government fault for not solving the problem quicker?
 * 4) Do you think general Raj-Singh survive?

Quotes
 * 1) “By Christmas Day, there was plenty of food.”
 * 2) “I almost wanted him to turn to me and say, ‘This is the turning point of the war! We’ve finally stopped them! We’re safe!’ But instead his little penis popped out and he peed in my face.
 * 3) “As soon as the report came in, he’d sat down at his desk, signed a few final orders, addressed and sealed a letter to his family, then put a bullet through his brain.”
 * 4) “The Vice President was more concerned with public relations. He didn’t want to imagine what his backside would be worth if new of this plan ever leaked to the population”
 * 5) “Paul Redeker, an angel and a devil. Some hate him, some worship him. Me, I just pity him.

Summary The overall meeting for our group went quite well. We told each other on our opinions of the book and learned from each other what we took from the book. We discussed and read Kevin's questions. We each gave our background for each question and learned from our group member's responses. Next we took a look at Matt's quotations and tried to decide in which chapter this was used and what was meant by this quote. While Dan lead the group discussion we ate some donuts and talked about the book. This book so far has used a diverse vocabulary usage and we are really starting to enhance the vocabulary in to everyday conversation. So far we learned from this book and hopefully we do continue to do so.

Week 3 Response

The mood or overall tone of the book varies over time. In the beginning of the book the characters were hectic and crazy because there was a world-wide infection and no one knew how to stop it or what was going on. As the time changes throughout the book and jumps from character to character there are different tones in the book. As they interview different characters the tone is now more of a calm feeling. The overall emotion is dark because of the sanity between the zombies inflicting pain on the human race.

Quotes-

1. “Who the Blank do you think you are to cancel our production of tanks?”

2. “The M-1 Abrams has a jet engine. Where are you going to find that kind of fuel? Why do you need stealth aircraft against an enemy that doesn’t have radar?”

3. “We didn’t leave America. America left us.”

4. “Move your ass, you fuckin’ bitch!” She was getting pretty raw by then. “Don’t you dare quit… don’t you DARE crap out on me!”


 * 1) In the book, they talk about looters, and how they cause a problem; do you think that they understand what’s happened to the world? They stole things like televisions, money, and other valuables. Do you think the looters know that items like that don’t matter anymore or are they really that materialistic?
 * 2) Quislings are people that haven’t been infected yet, but act like it anyways. They are in so much shock and distress; they make themselves believe they are zombies. Do you think they can be converted back to normal ever?
 * 3) Are quislings conscience of their actions or are they completely brain washed?

When we in walked book club immediately began and only nick had brought food. We the response to the book that nick did. then we did quotes, which dan did, finally we finished with questions. Book club seemed to go fast, we never got off topic we were always talking about the book. The overall reaction to the book was positive and everyone seemed to enjoy the pages we read. In conclusion, the book club went well and everyone seemed to be able to understand the book and I think everyone read this week.

Week 4

Quotes

"Something was on the floor beneath it, I guessed a suicide note." "He landed face up on the pavement, his head still hissing up at me from his otherwise broken body." "The army, arrogant bastards that they were, kept insisting that they had the problem under control, that every day was the turning point and before the next snow fell upon the earth they would have the entire country pacified." "No food, no ammo, no fuel, not even water to drink or air to breathe."

Response

There is a lot of violence used in the book. I think the author portraits the violence in the book the very well. they seem to represent the depressing time that is going on in the zombie war. The author uses the violence in the book to keep the reader reading with suspense. The authors use of violence is very effective when keeping the reader reading.

Questions


 * 1) Did Cuba win the Zombie War?
 * 2) What was the mood in this part of the book?
 * 3) Did the characters encounter a lot of problems in this part of the book?
 * 4) Was Captain Chen’s son killed when they attacked the other submarine?

Summary When class started, we sat down and took our books out to get ready for discussion. We talked about the blind guy living in the forest by himself and thought it was really cool how he was able to beat zombies even with his handicap. In fact, the character even made that weak point useful, which we thought was even more amazing. Everyone but Nick seemed to like the pages we read, and even though we got distracted, I think book club went well that day.

Week 5

Questions 1. If you were traveling over the world and a zombie apocalypse was happening would you lose your mind and possibly take your own life? 2. In this situation when the zombies are attacking you what is your emphasis on the importance of teamwork? 3. When the zombies are coming the survivors are using a diverse set of weapons to destroy them. Do you think you could keep your head in the face of violence and have the urge to extend your life? 4. When the survivors encounter the zombies they need wide-spread strategy and ideas. Do you think while this is happening you could be the leader and be the brains of the group? Explain.

Quotes 1. "You're wondering how this "existence" can be reconciled with our new fundamentalist state? Well, stop wondering, it can't." 2. " I tried to fit in, settle in, make some friends, get a job and do my a part to help put america back together." 3. " I wonder what the future generations will say about us. My grandparents suffered through the Depression, World War II, then came home to build the greatest middle class in human history." 4. " I thought it was a dream, sometimes it feels like one, remembering that day, that sunrise over the Hero City."

Summary

World War Z is a very interesting book, I don’t think any other book really discusses a zombie apocalypse, much less capture the feelings as well as the novel did. It really is worth the time to read the book since it so much fun to read. Every one of us with the exception of Nick would recommend this book to others. Although it wasn’t the gory and action-packed book we all expected, it turned out to be something great to read anyways.

I think this book would be really good for a summer reading book. It’s everything that a summer reading should be: fun, interesting, and gets us more interested in books altogether.

Summary of Meeting

Week 5 was our final week of book club.We were all eager to come to class and share our treats and discuss World War Z. But when we all got to class and stat down, everyone in our group forgot to bring snacks in to share. We were all hungry but we looked passed that and decided to talk about the book. We discussed our feelings on the book and what we thought of it in general. Nick seemed to be the only one to really dislike the book, and I kind of agreed with him. I thought that it would have more action and killing, but that was not the case. We finished posting our questions, quotes, and summaries on wikispaces, and relaxed and talked the remaining 5 minutes. Overall the meeting went great and we had fun.