The Hot Zone
There are many challenges, and day-to-day obstacles that may challenge ones comfort zone. Not often can you find a book that challenges that zone. Richard Preston writes a gripping novel, The Hot Zone, about the deadly Ebola virus. Through gripping detail and realism, Preston accomplishes informing the reader, and challenges the comfort zone, about the Ebola virus between 1967 and 1993.Throughout this 26-year time period, several people became infected with Ebola. Preston first introduces a French man, Charles Monet. Monet had a submissive personality, and only seemed to connect with women. Following a climbing trip from Mount Elgon with one of his mistresses, Monet came down w
With a gasping groan, he falls unconscious. As if this wasn't a horrifying experience for a man to go through, this was not the beginning, nor the end to this virus. "Ebola had risen in these rooms, flashed its colors, fed and subsided into the forests. Preston goes into great detail on each case, causing the reader to cringe at the reality that these cases happened to real people. As Level 4 pathologist, Jaax wore a space-type suit, and worked with extremely lethal airborne viruses. It was drenched in blood, Ebola blood, but now she saw the hole. It was a rip across the palm of the outer glove on her right hand"(87). Even amid today's technology and medical advances things such as: "He coughs a deep cough and regurgitates something into the bag. Despite some of the graphic content and harsh realisms, Preston writes a gripping book. his lips are smeared with something slippery and red, mixed with black specks, as if he has been chewing coffee grounds"(17).
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