Grammar and restructuring sentences

Kwun Ho Ho, Harris

Ms. Caroline Johnson

COM-102-045

13 Apr 2014

World War Z: Chapter 47 Denver, Colorado, USA

This chapter is talking about they find themselves in the Wainio household. Todd returns to telling us about headhunting days across America. The new army was very different than the one at Yonkers. Whereas Yonkers was all about the shiny gadgets and modern tech, the new army felt like something from a history book. The only vehicles used were to transport ammo and supplies. The battle dress uniforms were interwoven with bite-proof Kevlar but were light and comfy. Their arsenal now was a Lobo for head bashing and a standard infantry rifle for head shooting bayonet accessory included if you're feeling sassy with your zombie kills. Even their ammo, the NATO 5.56 'Cheery PIE was better suited for hunting walkers. The army also revised what it meant to be a combat grunt. Physical stamina was still important, but now combatants had to deal with Z-Shock, or losing your head after seeing so many zombies doing the crazy things zombies do. With this new requirement, the army basically began accepting people from everywhere. Todd's battle buddy was Sister Montoya, a fifty-two-year old nun. Their watershed battle came at Hope, New Mexico, and yes, even Todd thinks that name was a cheesy choice. Todd asks if the Interviewer has seen Roy Eliot's film about the battle because it was nothing like that. No harmonica, no campfire, no kumbaya; just silence and waiting and dread. When the zombies came, Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" began playing to psyche up the soldiers. They fought using the army's playbook, using lined formations that date as far back as at least the Napoleonic Wars. One line fires; another stands at the ready. When Line A needs to reload, Line B let's loose. When the zombies started coming around the line or at its flank and rear, they initiated a reinforced square, based on the tactics of Raj-Singh. They even brought ammo for all the graveyard ghouls. The fought that way all night, using searchlights, swapping in new soldiers as others began to tire. The bodies piled up into massive walls of dead flesh. At four in the morning, the zombies weren't hitting them nearly as hard, and the mood lifts. They had won. They use Humvees to push their way through walls of dead bodies. A cleanup crew comes in to do exactly what you'd imagine a cleanup crew should do. Todd and the rest of the fighting group marched ten miles east and set up camp. The next day everyone was laughing and telling stories. They still had the entire march across America to go, but as Todd says, it was finally the beginning of the end.