Genre
Non-Fiction
Setting and Context
The Entire World
Narrator and Point of View
Told from a third-person point of view
Tone and Mood
Solemn, Scientific, Scary, Hopeful, Mysterious, Chaotic, and Overwhelming
Protagonist and Antagonist
The World (Protagonists) vs. Diseases (Antagonists)
Major Conflict
Scientists' struggle to prepare for - and find cures for - emerging diseases which have, are, or will rampage the Earth, as well as their struggle to prepare the world for said diseases.
Climax
This is a non-fiction book and does not have a climax.
Foreshadowing
As a non-fiction book, Deadliest Enemy doesn't utilize foreshadowing.
Understatement
The transformative effect diseases like HIV/AIDS has on the world is understated in the book.
Allusions
Science (Epidemiology, Biology, Medicine, etc.), History, Geography, Popular Culture, and Social Sciences.
Imagery
Osterholm uses stark and violent imagery when describing some of the diseases he mentions in the book.
Paradox
SARS was highly infectious, yet didn't spread the same way as the Spanish Flu, for example.
Parallelism
The MERS and SARS outbreaks, for example, are paralleled in the book.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
MERS = Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
SARS = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Personification
The diseases mentioned in the book are often personified.
