I Am Legend Survival Quotes

In the movie, Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the

Neville didn’t have the average life growing up, he was even born under a palm tree due to the indigenous population having to be out of the towns before sunset. This prevented his mother attending the town’s hospital which led to his mother giving birth to him under a palm tree. (Government, 2014) This was just one of the many rules presented to indigenous people at the time which made their life almost impossible to live. After his mother died, he and his brother moved in with their grandparents. Neville hadn’t gone to school until him and his family moved to Brisbane between the ages of 14 and 15. He had only had a formal education of around a year and had to attend to the only

All Neville has is himself. If he wants to keep living he has to work hard to keep his home up. He struggles with the motivation but yet he still perseveres. His will to live is often almost non-existent but nonetheless he gets up early and does his daily maintenance routine. He knows that it would be so easy to just give up but he doesn’t and the question is why?

Neville has created a restricted space that fights and defends to keep it for himself. He is an alone white man who tries to survive in an apocalyptic world in which he must learn to adapt himself by controlling the environment surrounding him imposing his authority and establishing his dominance. It is vampire what he must confront and upon whom he must establish his control, they metaphorically are the black population. Neville estimates his own state of humanity against the contaminated monsters with blood as the factor that indicates the difference between the identities of both beings. Neville takes his own blood as the standard to identify what is pure and as a consequence what is human. At some point in the novel, he finds Ruth, a woman of whom he thinks to be a normal human because she can walk in daylight. Although he finally achieves to take her into his house he still does not trust her, being afraid of the fact that Ruth could be infected by the bacillus. After such belief, Neville insists on testing her, first by shoving a plate with crushed garlic on it under her nose, and later by asking her for a sample of blood.

From start to finish the author uses pathos to capture the reader’s attention. Kaplan paints a fearful, gruesome, scary picture of how throughout history people have viewed vampires and zombies. The author shows this with his word choice, metaphors, and the stories he chooses to explain. From the start, the author uses words such as fear, scared, morbid, evil, and terror throughout his entire story. In just the first page of the text he uses the word fear three times accompanied by terror when writing about vampires in ancient times. Kaplan uses metaphors throughout the story, but especially in his introduction to capture the reader’s attention. Examples of this include when he states, “they are predators like lions and play upon the terror

Neville understands that these vampires are obsessive about their basic needs as the narrator states, “their need was their only motivation” (Matheson 11). In this regard, Neville is similar to his adversaries as he, too, is obsessed with his needs as a human, specifically for companionship and intimacy. This idea is demonstrated in the beginning of the novel as he is about to slay a sleeping vampire and the author observes, “…but for some affliction he didn’t understand, these people were the same as he” (Matheson 28). Much like Count Dracula, these vampires are driven mad by their thirst and need for blood; however, in Neville’s case, this need can also be characterized by his desire for companionship. In this

In the short story Lifeguard, Barbara Scott uses one of the main characters, Chris to display the idea that his identity is developed when he is able to place Mikeys needs ahead of his own and when he is able to forgive his father for leaving his family. Through the story mikey loses his parents in a fatal accident, and chris develops a strong sense of compassion for him because of this. Also through mikey losing his family Chris seems to realize how quickly something awful like that could happen and begins to sympathize for his dad despite his mistakes. He begins the story filled with bitterness, however through the story, he begins to appear as a more kind and understanding person.

The shadow hero is a novel written by Gene Luen Yang and it takes place in the 1930s. It is about Hank Chu a Chinese grocery store employee that is run by his family. Hank one day Hank will be the owner of the grocery but it seems like hank doesn’t want to be that he wants to be something else in life. Hanks mother Hua Chu leaves the family and baby-sits. As she is sitting in the car a man goes into the car and tries to steal it.

With the purpose of avoiding the temptation, Neville listens to music and occupies himself by reading. Such frustration is so great, that he even almost got him killed when he got out of the house in fury. Apart from the sexual frustration, what Neville really needs is companionship, a matter shown through his desperate efforts and the huge amount of time spent to befriend with the dog, in such a desperate way the he leaves apart his research for that purpose. He feels so isolated that when he finds another survivor, he thinks it is a product of his mind, a hallucination. This lack of companionship and socialization is reflected as well in the living vampires of the novel, who at first apparently do not talk to each other, and the undead vampires that do not even have the ability to speak.

The various changes depicted in Neville also involves the change of light the vampires are seen through. Through the use of foreshadowing and diction, Matheson is able to manipulate the point of view of the audience so that they can begin to change their expectations for the novel as it progresses. Through the use of Noël Carroll, a preeminent philosopher and aesthetician of modern art-horror, and his assertions in his seminal essay, The Nature of Horror, I will be able to validate how the reflection of feelings between the audience and main character affects the way prejudice is interpreted into the real world. As Carroll also states in his essay, The Nature of Horror, the manipulation of the expectations set upon the context is vital step in being able to correlate the protagonists’ world with the audiences’ world. Furthermore, Matheson also manipulates the expectations set by his audience in order to create this effect. However, before Matheson clarified the true monster in his novel, he portrayed Robert Neville to be the protagonist and the vampires to be the

“He’s a survivor, though survivors are dangerous. Wars exist for people like Basie.” This is a quote from the historical fiction book, The Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard, it shows a scene between the main character Jim and a supporting character Dr. Ransome. This book was very intricate and detailed. It takes place in Shanghai China throughout World War 2 and the Japanese Occupation.

Robert Neville losing his family relates to the theme of Loss of Humanity. In the beginning of

As Robert Neville conducts this very critical experiment on the darkseeker with a newly cultivated program that could be used as a potential cure he indulges in the use of complex and uncommon scientific jargon and processes to fully and extensively carry out the research that he is conducting. Constantly throughout this scene, we see Neville completely devoid of his emotion in the face of a stirring and critical task that requires his utmost attention, we see him constantly verbally recording notes using the same and somewhat unnecessary jargon given the context. In fact, the mise en scene has placed all of these scientific instruments in intricate positions that require the utmost, attention and patience. Things that Robert Neville to me can’t afford to spend his time and energy doing. Rather than determining much more efficient systems of survival or devising an ingenious plan to escape the hell in which he lives or perhaps even liberating himself from his life he continues on, stubbornly in order to accomplish the goal he set out for himself and he shall do it all costs and expenses whether they be emotional or physical as long as what he does makes

This quote is explaining the value of survival over anything else. This value parallels to Yossarian and the theme of his extensive fear of death. It also shows the values of the two types of characters throughout the book, being the stupid and crazy. The stupid would value their freedom and would stand up for what they believe in, but those who have gone mad would be more likely to value their own survival. It’s also ironic that Nately, who was saying that the most important value is freedom, end up dead because he didn’t value his survival as much.

Three years after the outbreak, Robert Neville is the sole survivor in New York City, as everyone is either infected or dead. He is accompanied by his daughter’s dog, Sam, and has a resemblance to normal life through