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I AM LEGEND

I AM LEGEND. Discussion – Chapters 1, 2 & 3 Mr. Wilson English 306. Background?. What do you know about Vampires? Where does the story come from?. And today?. But what is the story really about?. Being alone and the effects of being alone Man vs. Society (Does not fit in!!!)

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I AM LEGEND

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  1. I AM LEGEND Discussion – Chapters 1, 2 & 3 Mr. Wilson English 306

  2. Background? • What do you know about Vampires? • Where does the story come from?

  3. And today?

  4. But what is the story really about? • Being alone and the effects of being alone • Man vs. Society (Does not fit in!!!) • Aristotle = The Agon • The Apocalypse or the end of the world • Motivation – what keeps him going?

  5. Other stories that are similar?

  6. Chapter 1 • "All the knowledge in those books couldn't put out the fires in him, all the words of centuries couldn't end the wordless, mindless craving of his flesh" (Matheson, p.8).

  7. Chapter 1 • After reading chapter 1, what do you know about Robert Neville and what is his character like?

  8. Chapter 2 • Who was Kathy, and how does Robert’s trip to fire pit tell you about his past? (pp.13-15).

  9. Chapter 2 • “Neville had loathed his father and fought the acquisition of his father’s logic and mechanical facility every inch of the way. His father had died denying the vampire violently to the last” (Matheson, p.16).

  10. Chapter 3 • “Something black and of the night had come crawling out of the Middle ages. Something with no framework or credulity, something that had been consigned…to the pages of imaginative literature…Stoker’s melodramatics or…raw material for the B-film factories” (Matheson, p.17).

  11. Chapter 3 • “But are [the Vampire’s] needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men?” (Matheson, p.20).

  12. Chapter 3 • Robert Neville grunted a surly grunt. Sure, sure, he thought, but would you let your sister marry one?” (Matheson, p.21).

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