World War Z Characters

World War Z Character List

Narrator (interviewer)

The main character of this book is a narrator. In fact, it is not known , who he is or what his name is. It is only known that he is an interviewer and gathers the information about World War Z in people , who survived during the war, from a ll over the world. This man is very smart and a workaholi , because not everyone is able to travel a round the whole world for the sake of the job . He is also very kind and sociable, because all eyewitnesses of World War Z are happy to talk with him and share their impressions about the war. The narrator is neither a protagonist nor an antagonist of this book. He is a man who aspires to find out the truth.

Zombies

Everyone knows that zombies are destructive creatures, who only need human flesh to survive. In this book, they are antagonists. Millions of people become victims of this infection, which cannot be got rid of. There is only one way out - death. Zombies are characters , who kill many lives, dreams, hopes ... These monsters do not think about the consequences. Although they cannot even think , because zombies do not have brains in the ordinary sense of the word .

Dr. Kwang Jingshu

This positive character is a doctor in China, who is good at medicine. During World War Z, he did not fear the infection and continued to save many people. He is a very strong, brave and noble person, because any other doctor would have run away because of fear. Currently, the doctor still cures all his patients, despite his old age and military injuries.

Nury Televaldi

Nury was an importer: raw opium, uncut diamonds, girls, and boys, whatever was valuable from those primitive excuses for countries. The outbreak changed all that. He had urban professionals, private farmers, even low-level government officials. These were people, who had a lot to lose. They did not care, where they were going, they just needed to get out. Nury helped people to get out of the infected cities, but he understood the high probability of the fact that he could import infected people.

Stanley MacDonald

Stanley was soldier. He is veteran of almost every campaign across the expanse of his native Canada. He first encountered the living dead during a different war, when the Third Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry was involved in drug interdiction operations in Kyrgyzstan. He is a brave man, who defended the country from the living dead.

Fernando Oliveira

Fernando was a doctor who was engaged in transplantation in Brazil I. He was still a doctor, that is what he told himself. Yes, he was rich, and getting richer all the time, but at least his success came from performing necessary medical procedures. He was not just slicing and dicing little teenage noses. He was still a doctor. He was still helping people. Of course, he is not proud of his act during the war now, but he tried to help people.

Todd Wainio

Like most men of his generation, Todd Wainio is old before his time. With an expanding paunch, receding, graying hair, and three, deep, parallel scars down the side of his right cheek; it would be difficult to guess that this former U.S. Army infantryman is still at the beginning of his life. Bravely battling against beasts, Todd also tried to find out, who the politicians, rich people and government are in reality. Like most other characters, he also needed the truth.

Carlson Grover

Grover Carlson works as a fuel collector for the town's experimental bioconversion plant. The fuel he collects is dung. He always criticizes the government and says that there is no need to rely on it. All you need to do is to rely on yourself.

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