Around the world and above

This chapter to me represents the final nail in the coffin for this book at least to me being considered in any way good. The first character of course like every other character throughout the entirety of this book speaks with the same voice and of course the personality as those who came before him. Almost all characters throughout the book is both in their actions and words are what I would dare to call "nonchalant bad-asses" this means that above all else they react without any sort of emotion to everything happening around them. There are several characters who do not fit this personality which at the surface seems like a good thing but first you should realize exactly why they do not fit this nonchalant bad-ass character and that would be because they are some stereotype or another, though being horribly stereotyped does not stop most characters from having that personality it most of the time encourages it. The characters who are incompetent are of course politicians, and intellectuals (almost exclusively american politicians by the way). The stereotyping of every character goes so far as to be their sole distinguishing characteristic but at the same time erases any personality that they could have had left. None of the characters in the book every have enough time to come up with a full fledged story just short anecdotes on the situation that they were in. The fact that no coherent story is revealed in a singular interview emphasizes the fact that there is in fact no coherent story tying the book together just a cobbled together group of interviews taking place in roughly the same area without any consistent theme to tie them together apart from of course the zombies and the gross incompetence shown by humanity at large.