iamlegend

__**WEEK** **1:** **September 30**__
 * PERSON A - GROUP LEADER -** Taylor Sisti
 * PERSON B - QUOTATION FINDER** - AJ Scimeca
 * PERSON C - KEY QUESTIONER** - Joe Abo-Ela (absent) and Danielle Collins
 * PERSON D - GROUP SUMMARIZER** - Chris Fiore

//__Robert Neville__// - Neville is the last normal man on Earth and all of the people around him have been turned into vampires by a pandemic. We are not really sure yet why he was the only man to survive, but Neville must be special if he is the only one left. Neville faces many daily struggles to try and stay alive as well as get rid of the vampires around him. //__Virginia & Kathy__//: Neville's wife and daughter that have died. Wed do not know a lot about them other than that they are not with Neville and he misses them greatly. //__Ben Cortman__// - Neville's neighbor that has become a vampire. Cortman taunts Neville every night to come outside so he will become a vampire as well. Neville can hear Ben outside and Ben's comments often drive Neville crazy and cause him to drink excessively. //__Vampires__// - Many vampires throw rocks at Neville's windows and dock on his door, hoping that Neville will come outside. The female vampires try to persuade Neville to come out and many times Neville becomes very close to giving in.
 * Characters:**

// - "They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors." (Chapter 2) // // - "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, fact and figure, to the pages of imaginative literature." (Chapter 2) // // - "That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed." (Chapter 3) // // -"For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete." (Chapter 3) // // -"Come out, Neville." //
 * Quotes:**

1. Does the death of everything around Robert Neville foreshadow death for himself? 2. Does seeing the vampires each night make Robert Neville crazier each day? 3. Would Robert Neville be better off killing himself? Why or Why not? 4. Do you think Neville should just drive until he finds living people? 5. What would be a good way for Neville to get the vampires away from him at night?
 * Questions:**

We talked about Neville's tactics of survival. We also talked about the emotional struggle he must be suffering from. It must be very hard to know that there are vampires who want to kill you at all hours of the night and day.
 * Summary:**

__**WEEK 2: October 8**__
 * PERSON A - GROUP LEADER -** Chris Fiore
 * PERSON B - QUOTATION FINDER -** Taylor Sisti
 * PERSON C - KEY QUESTIONER -** AJ Scimeca and Joe Abo-Ela
 * PERSON D - GROUP SUMMARIZER -** Danielle Collins


 * Language**: The language of the book is conversational because it makes a person think to themselves in a real-life situation. The grade level of the book is definitely a high school plus grade level. There are no words that I feel are above our grade level but there are words that are at our grade level

1) "If I could die now, he thought; peacefully, gently, without a tremor or a crying out. If I could be with her. If I could believe I would be with her." (p.37) 2) "He pressed down on the accelerator. He'd have to take the chance that they were all following him. Would some of them guess what he was trying?" (p.44) 3) "She looked at him and shook her head of the pillow. 'I don't know,' she said. 'I Just can't sleep.'" (p.52) 4) "Outside the carn horn sounded... 'Morning,' he said, getting in the car and pulling the door shut behind him. 'Good Morning,' said Ben Cortman." (p.58) 5) "For seven months now he'd strung [garlic] together into aromatic necklaces and hung them outside his house without the remotest idea of why they chased the vampires away, It was time he learned why." (p.59)
 * Quotes:**

1. In the beginning of chapter 4, Neville experiences terrible symptoms of a hangover. Do you think Neville is border-line desperate? 2. Why did Neville have a flashback of his wife and child? 3. When Neville was stuck outside with the vampires, would it have been better for him to just admit defeat and let them kill him? 4. Slowly but surely, Neville is learning more and more about this vampire race. What does this say about him? 5. How do you think the attack at the end of chapter 5 affected Neville and his opinion of the vampires?
 * Questions:**


 * Summary:** During our meeting on Friday, we talked about what happened in the second part of our book. In this section Robert Neville had a hard time getting back to his house because it was after dark and all the vampires were outside his house. Also, Neville had a flash back of him and his wife. We focused more on the language of the book. We figured out that the book is an easy read and easy to understand. Nothing is to confusing, which is good. Then we just discussed the questions that Joe and AJ came up with. Lastly, we talked about the quotes that Taylor looked up.

__**WEEK 3: October 15**__ **PERSON A - GROUP LEADER -** Danielle Collins **PERSON B - QUOTATION FINDER -** Chris Fiore **PERSON C - KEY QUESTIONER -** Taylor Sisti and AJ Scimeca **PERSON D - GROUP SUMMARIZER -** Joe Abo-Ela

**Mood/Tone:** The mood of his book in the being is sadness and loneliness. The tone was calm and had a continuous routine, until he had to fight for his life. Then he was aggressive. The overriding emotion of this book is loneliness because Neville is always by himself. Then vampires are not much company because all they want to do in take his blood. You see this in the book when he has flashbacks to seeing his wife, daughter, and neighbors in the town. Also, when he drinks because he has no one to socialize with, he drinks to keep himself occupied.

**Quotes:**
 * 1) “Had it been morning or night? Had it been raining or shining? Was anyone there when it stopped?” pg. 79
 * 2) “World’s gone to hell. No germs, no science. World’s fallen to the supernatural. It’s a supernatural world. Pg. 93s
 * 3) It was painfully obvious that liquor was an emotional solace for him pg. 89

**Questions:** 1. Neville’s reacted differently to the death of Virginia and to the death of Kathy. Why might he have behaved differently? 2. Why do Neville's discoveries in his experiments leave him more frustrated than before? 3. Why is Neville’s 3 am epiphany important? 4. What is Neville's new goal in chapter 11? 5. Why did Neville start drinking heavily for days? What does this lead him to find?

**Summary:** So today, we went over the mood and the tone. The mood was very sad, the tone was very sad too. So, AJ and Taylor did some questions. Fiore did his quotation business. Danielle was the group leader, and my second in command. I am the Summarizer, or first in command.

__**WEEK 4: October 22**__ **PERSON A - GROUP LEADER -** Joe Abo-Ela (absent), Chris Fiore **PERSON B - QUOTATION FINDER -** Danielle Collins **PERSON C - KEY QUESTIONER -** Taylor Sisti **PERSON D - GROUP SUMMARIZER -** AJ Scimeca


 * Themes/Images:** Themes found in I am Legend include darkness and independence. These themes represent Robert Neville’s struggle throughout the story.

**Quotes**: 1. "Do you want to be changed into a black unholy animal? Do you want to stain the evening sky with hell-born bat wings? I ask you do you want to be turned into godless, night-cursed husks, into creatures of eternal damnation?" (page 113) 2. "Will you //stop//!" (page 124) 3. "Listen to me. I have every reason to suspect you of being infected. Especially now that you've reacted in such a way to garlic." (page 130) 4. "I've had a weak stomach all my life. I saw my husband killed last week. Torn to pieces. Right in front of my eyes I saw it. I lost two children to the plague. And for the past week I've been wandering all over. Hiding at night, not eating more than a few scraps of food. Sick with fear, unable to sleep more than a couple of hours at a time. Then I hear someone shout at me. You chase me over a field, hit me, drag me to your house. Then when i get sick because you shove a plate of reeking garlic in my face, you tell me I'm infected!" (page 131) 5. "Even if you //are// infected, I can't let you go out there. You don't know what they'd do to you." (page 132)

**Questions:** 1. In chapter 14, what event does Robert recall during the final days of the plague? Why is this important to him? 2. What does Neville believe is symbolically buried along with the dog? 3. Neville meets a normal woman named Ruth. Why is he disappointed with meeting her? 4. What does Robert promise to do for Ruth if she is infected? Do you think that he will follow through with this? 5. Why does Neville think he is immune to the plague? Do you think that this is a logical reason?

**Summary:** During this weeks meeting, we discussed a more climactic portion of the story. At this point in the book, Neville knows a lot more about this "plague" and the people that it has consumed. He meets and new lady named Ruth, who he suspects to be infected because of the instant bad reaction she had towards garlic. Although Neville does suspect her to be infected, he refuses to let his survival tactics get ahead of his good will and does not throw her out to the creatures. Neville believes he is immune to the Krippen Virus because he did blood tests. Now this brings up a controversial point of whether or not Neville knew what he was doing. Throughout the book he constantly seeks more information about the virus and seems to be doing many tests and procedures, but we don't actually know if he has any sort of scientific background.

__ **Week Five: October 29 (LAST MEETING)** __ **PERSON A - GROUP LEADER -** AJ Scimeca **PERSON B - QUOTATION FINDER -** Joe Abo-Ela **PERSON C - KEY QUESTIONER -** Danielle Collins and Chris Fiore **PERSON D - GROUP SUMMARIZER -** Taylor Sisti

Would you recommend it to peers? Why or why not? - No, I would not recommend this book to my friends. I do not believe that they would enjoy it. Reason being is that most people have seen the movie already, and majority of those people believe the idea that books are always better than the movie. In this case, the book and the movie are completely different with just the same main idea of being the last man on Earth. I personally do not think the book was better than the movie. Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? - I'd say the topic of worldwide human extinction is discussed in various different viewpoints. Should this book be considered for the school's curriculum? - Yes. I believe it should be considered for the curriculum just because what we are doing now proves that there is enough relevant information in this book to actually make assignments according to it. 1. “would you let me take a sample of your blood?” 2. “You can’t go out there, the street will be full of them in a little while” 3. “I don’t understand it. Almost three years now, and still there are more of them alive.” 4. “Didn’t you know theyd come back after they died?” 5. “There had been some terrible moments in those days, moments when the most terrible of solutions to his need ere considered, were often dwelt upon until they drove him half mad.”
 * Group Leader:**
 * Quotes**:

1. Why does Neville think he is immune to the plague? Do you believe it? Is there real-world evidence that immunity can be passed cross-species? 2. What happens when Ruth finally lets Robert draw blood from her to test? 3. How does Neville react to Ruth's note? 4. What has Robert resolved to do when the vampires of the new society come for him? Why? 5. As Robert dies, what is his epiphany? Explain.
 * Questions:**

This week we talked about the ending of our novel. We discussed the selected quotes and how they are important to the story. We also discussed the questions with everyone in the group, talking about each question and how they sum up the end of the book. We also agreed that we all enjoyed the book and would recommend it to our peers. It was a great story that was very interesting and it kept us wanting to read more. The book kept us intrigued because we wanted to know what would happen to Neville in the end and if he would be able to survive being the last normal human. Our group agreed that, while this story was unique, there are many other stories that relate to vampires, especially today. We agree that this book should be considered for the curriculum because it is very interesting and we believe that many people would enjoy reading this book.
 * Summary:**