![]() His time has some peaks but is mostly about how he adheres to a strict schedule in order to survive. The story does an excellent job of portraying the monotony of day-to-day life as Neville tries to stay sane and find a potential cure for the vampire plague. For much of the first half of the book, Neville struggles with loneliness and carnal desire, and facing a gradual mental unraveling. In addition, he also goes out into the community finding the slumbering vampires to kill them and throw their bodies into a fire pit, which has been determined as the only way to ensure they cannot return walk the earth. The first half of the story puts the reader in the mindset of Neville, going through his daily activities to find sustenance, supplies, and maintain his home. ![]() ![]() The story begins with Neville a few months into the vampire plague, having acclimated himself to a ritual dictated by the habits of the threatening vampires and designed to fortify his dwelling and safe enclosure. staying indoors during the day, repelled by garlic and maybe crosses, and roaming the streets at night often in a state of frenzy having attacked and killed the living and continuously returning to the house where the story's main character, Rober Neville, lives. This story is a sharp character study of how one person struggles to survive a world in which they find themselves the only living human, surrounded by others who've succumbed to a virus or disease that's made them like vampires. ![]()
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