The success of this government is dependent on their ability to deal with the insurgencies at a time of crisis. The apocalypse in Zone One is not heavily covered in the novel considering the author's focus on the post-apocalypse but it can be expected that there were many challenges before the government at Buffalo was effectively established and stabilized in the area. In such a jungle like society, a functioning and powerful government is pivotal at a time of crisis to stop anarchy. The society changes from a sound civilization into a jungle system where people would do anything just to survive. Riots take over the social scenes as people start looting stores to stock up on food and supplies as the system comes to a stand-still. In many apocalyptic stories, the people panic and start an insurgency against a government that they presume to have failed in keeping them safe. In this contemporary fiction, Whitehead launches a tirade against bureaucratic establishments advancing for pursuing parochial interests and hoodwinking the populace.
Thus, in the place of a quarantine is a safe zone where the living and protected from the living dead. Mostly, the story is given in the form of memory and that the prevalent setting is in a post-apocalyptic time after most of the zombies were gone. To enable the survival of humanity, some form of a government was created in Buffalo and their main interest was in enabling the Phoenix' to rebuild and thrive again after the apocalypse.
In this story, Mark Spitz is working as a sweeper, and he represents humanity in its most real and most mediocre form, complete with the indomitable spirit that is portrayed in this man's ability to survive some tough situations.
Mark Spitz is one of the volunteers whose job is to clear out these stragglers after the Marines had dealt with the more violent skels within the Zone One.
These stragglers, along with some of the remaining skelt' remain outside of the safe zones where they are desperately looking for human food on which to survive. The Manhattan area which has been renamed as Zone One is outside the protected areas where many stragglers are seen as the harmless zombies. The novel is about a post-apocalyptic situation in which the government can save a handful of people and rebuild the human race. A zombie apocalypse is probably as imagined as any fiction can be, but in Zone One it acquires some believability through the realistic personality and experience of one Mark Spitz. Zone One is a novel by Colson Whitehead that takes on a rather pragmatic stance on one of the most common dark fantasies of the post-modern world.
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