TGP

This chapter is aptly named The Great Panic. It is about the full scale reactions of the people and governments, people fleeing and governments enacting desperate plans both great and terrible. Demonstrating many of the hardships faced by the people as they attempted to run from the zombies not knowing where their final destination is but rather running as primal panic and fear takes hold. Some desperately fleeing to the ocean with hordes of zombies behind them. Others journeying north and the hardships that such a trip brought them. It also shows how effective proper knowledge and foresight was. The governments did not have it any easier, enacting plans that involved killing many of its own citizens begging the question, does the end justify the means? The answer was yes, survival is a must.

I thought this was a great chapter, it really paints the desperate picture portrayed by the situation, drawing you in with horrid tales of survival and hard decisions made across the world from great to small. My favorite part was no doubt at the end where the US Government attempted to make a stand against the Zombies. It really helps understand why this could happen to such a degree despite all the firepower the Military has. They initially had no idea of how to fight, many weapons didn't work, Old tactics used incorrectly and information that was wrong or just better off not known. Also it reminds us that even in the darkest and most terrible wars it was soldiers who fought in them and soldiers who were still human and the feelings and emotions that come with being human. Facing the zombies denies everything taken for granted was proven wrong. Every mistake was harshly punished costing the lives of citizens.