Comment on style language

Brooks uses scientific and formal language to convey the impression of a researched and documented survival guide. The narrator portrays himself as an expert, someone whose opinions can be trusted and relied on, even in the deadliest encounters with zombies. Because of this, the author uses the language of science to sound informed and intelligent. The fictional world of the novel requires its narrator to be trustworthy and believable, even though he is talking of fantastical things.