World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Homework 2 As we get further into the novel, there are a lot of zombie themes that become very clear. One theme I noticed was the failure of technology and the reverting to older, medieval-like weapons and traditions. This idea strongly presents itself in the interview with David Forbes who talks about humanities use of castles and medieval customs for survival. Technology in a lot of instances became useless since resources such as ammunition were limited in some areas. This caused the people to find other weapons for protection. On page 192 David Forbes says to the interviewer, “what else could we do when the bullets ran out and we were left with nothing else but an odd lot of medieval