I Am Legend Essay

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The movie I am legend starts on set in January 1976. Robert Neville is looking at his house to ascertain that it is safe for nightfall because that it the time when vampires attack. He repairs the broken and the vulnerable parts of the house and gets garlic from his hothouse which acts as a weapon for fighting the zombies. Neville then prepares stakes which he uses in fighting the vampires and as usual, the vampires attack at might. The only occupants of his house are a dog and Neville. Neville is the main character and somewhat the single character in the movie. The incidents going on reshape the nature of Neville from a nice person who used to be married to a ruthless vampire slayer who thinks he is immune because he is the only one alive. When Neville is not preparing or responding to attack, he …show more content…

When he is getting gas and house supplies, he often encounters things that remind him of the times when there was no plague.Neville, however, puts his time and effort into ensuring that he is alive while trying to figure out how the vampire plague works and the reason behind the efficiency of the stake in fighting the vampires. He reads about the vampires while reviewing a list of facts and fictions about them. He occasionally despairs and drowns himself in drinking where he sometimes injures himself. After sometime, he begins experimenting on the vampires that are inactive during the day. He drags the vampires to the sun so that he can understand why the sun burns them. While attempting to take a vampire home for experimentation, he realises that he clock has stopped and he has to race home before vampires attack him. He manages to fight his way to his house but collapses inside. The memories of Neville’s wife haunt him. The wife succumbed to a disease and Neville was supposed to bury so that she cannot resurrect. He fails to do so and is thus forced to kill her when she comes back to

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