How Does Bob Brooks Change

Although the novel World War Z, by author Max Brooks, consists of characters as authentic as real individuals, the way in which Brooks reveals the characters and the plot of the novel contributes greatly to its immense success. As a literary device, Brooks uses zombies to add dimension to the story of our society’s response to this enormous threat. Consequently, he implies that our society, largely based upon the idea of a hierarchy, plays a silent antagonist in the novel as the characters, in response to the system, act in inhumane ways to maintain their current social position or rise to another level rather than attempting to solve the existing problem. The characters, whom I believe to have best exhibited these behaviours would definitely
The environment you are surrounded with undoubtedly influences you and it seems Bob just adapted to it without any resistance considering how many of the agency’s characteristics he inherited over his time of employment. The CIA is an organization one fears by name even if they are not intertwined in illegal activities and the fear it creates among people does half of the job for the organization. Bob’s job, to look for and analyze threats, was made to be effortless in many ways as the agency’s name was strong enough to eliminate many threats by itself. When using the CIA’s name to make his job easier, Bob sees no harm, but when that name adds responsibility to his platter, he does not hesitate to criticize the agency or the individuals of the nation claiming, “This was the advantage of our image as some kind of omniscient octopus. The only disadvantage was that our own people believed in that image as well, so whenever anything, anywhere occurred without any warning, where do you think the finger was pointed?”(Brooks, 2006, p. 58). Contrasting greatly with Grover, Bob seems to be one to hesitate or analyze to the extent that his ability to act is restricted. There were few instances where Bob truly let his personality show as if the things he had said had been rehearsed and decided upon earlier because he had the responsibility of protecting the agency’s reputation as they failed to do their job when needed. He learned through experiences that others believe in helping themselves first so if he wanted to gain the power and position he desired, it would be by sticking with the norms and helping himself before others so he has no idea for how to take responsibilities for his actions, but unlike Grover, he realizes his mistakes to a certain