The final chapters of ‘World War Z’ have a much different tone from the rest of the novel. While there is still horror (the island getting attacked while the sub was docked) there is a lighter outlook on the war. This is primarily because we’re at the point where there’s a ‘light at the end of the tunnel.’ The panic over zombies attacking everyone is subsiding and the shock has left the situation to a degree. Now tales are being told of successes against the zombies, rather than total human massacres. The first big example of there being a hope to end the war was Todd Wainio’s story of the battle at Hope, New Mexico. As is mentioned by Todd, the name of the battleground set the tone. And it was a total 180 from the previous battle at Yonkers. The troops acted as one unit and massacred all the zombies, scoring both a military and moral victory, showing what could be rid the world of the zombies. It was a huge juxtaposition from Yonkers, as it was told from the exact same perspective and showed how the tides had finally changed in the war.
However, at the end of this story, what has been established is what humankind is ultimately capable of in both positive and negative ways. After defeating the zombies, humankind is united for possibly the first time in history, the result of everyone having a common foe. It bears mentioning that it takes a worldwide epidemic and an extremely deadly war to bring humankind together, a comment on the violent nature of our species. It lets us revisit the issue of why zombies are so violent after reanimation. Is this the base nature of our species, to be nothing more than savages seeking meat?
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