The story that has stuck out my mind is for sure the "Vostok Station: Antarctica" story. This man, "Breck" Scott, is purely evil. He used the scare of "African rabies" to make money and make himself rich. He told everyone that Phalanx, a vaccine, would help prevent them from getting this "African rabies." He said, "Fear sells," and that this was his mantra. He thought it was funny that he was made a millionaire off of a fake vaccine and that he conned the American people. This is the first time we see a truly evil person in the book.
My group's story is the "Troy, Montana, USA." Mary Jo Miller is the town's mayor, and they have built all these walls and "protective" structures around their houses and town to keep the zombies out. The zombies have no problems getting through all these security features, and her husband manages to kill one zombie, while she rips another's head off to save her daughter. The story ends, leaving it unclear if the husband shot himself because he might have been infected by the zombie attack or what happened to him. He is not mentioned the second time Mary Jo Miller and Troy, Montana is mentioned. In the second section, Mary Jo Miller takes the blame for allowing the zombie attack to spread so far to her people and says that all people in power should take the blame. I thought this was interesting. Not many politicians take the blame for anything anymore...they just point fingers.
I really did not care for Breck Scott's character at all as well. Even though this is just a book, I am sure there are people in this world that would actually do something like that if something were to occur here. I agree that is the first evil human being in the book.
ReplyDeleteIt is people in this world that actually uses the fears of society to make a quick buck. Look at the commercials with weight lost, most of the products do not work but people spend their hard earned money. They try to get to the dream size to be like the people the media shows us everyday.
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