A political allegory with zombies: Max Brooks’s World War Z, reviewed

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Andres Jimenez

This is a great book simply because you have everything a reader would want to read. When you read this, you can imagine each sequence. In this book, the great thing is the creativity Max Brooks provides because there are different perspectives on characters, political ideology problems, economic problems, and racial differences. There are so many things that we could compare zombies to a metaphor for humans with chaos.  

Max Brooks is a bestselling author of World War Z. The first thing I want to highlight is the perspective the books give about some interesting survivors. In the book, they show a smuggler, a Chinese doctor, a special forces soldier, and a politician. These characters have different views of the zombie apocalypse. This can bring more enjoyment for the viewers and give us the chance to analyze much more than the apocalypse.

The second topic I want to talk about is politics, because it is something that people don’t think about in a zombie apocalypse. The politics come from the conflicts between countries. The USA declares war on zombies, and Europe supports them, so they will fight the zombie apocalypse together, but in South America, some countries see zombies as an economic benefit, because there are fewer people, and so the zombies help re-populate the continent. But in Africa, religion is the thing that causes war because Catholic countries want to declare war on the Zombies because they said they came from hell, but the tribes used zombies for sacrifices, so they didn’t want to fight a war against them.

Overall, this book has its ups and down because it shows people how a zombie apocalypse turns out. Well, it has controversy because Muslims maybe would not like this book, while other people would love to read this book. Politics brings a lot of good things to this book because governments end up fighting with each other. This is something interesting, not just killing freaking zombies.

This a book you should read, and it is really fun most of all for teenagers and the readers that like politics.