With the dog, Neville pursued it shortly, but then decided to take the approach of gaining its trust by leaving it food. What’s interesting about this, though, is the way he reacts to seeing them, individually. Twice, he comes across possible companions: the dog, and Ruth. No duh, says the reader of this essay, don’t you remember the fact that, he was, like, alone? Well, yes, he was alone, but not the whole time. Speaking of things that aren’t easy to do, Neville struggles with companionship throughout the novel. If you said yes-even Neville knew “it wouldn’t be that easy”. Put yourself in the same scenario would you really want to let go of your past entirely? All the memories and everything you miss? Quite possibly, the only living memorabilia of what your life used to be? Neville likely chose to keep Cortman “alive” because he had the last connection to his personal life: Neville and Cortman carpooled to work in the morning just after he said goodbye to Kathy and Virginia. But instead, he claims to look in any space a human body can climb into, and suffers the results of his denial by seeing Cortman killed by strangers. He knows his friend’s name still.) should be a big sign that Neville needs to look in Cortman’s home. The simple fact that Vampires are aware of their past life to some degree (Even the little things, like Cortman’s “Come out Neville!” Ultimatums. It’s impossible not to make the connection: Neville decided to bury his wife instead of burn her, and when she came back as a vampire, she walked up to the front door of their home. Neville knew that it’s likely that Cortman was hiding out somewhere in his own home. When he says “it was pointless”, it’s apparent that he means “it’s pointless to put myself in denial”. Cortman was not theirs to put to rest” (Matheson, 148). Objectively, it was pointless, but he could not repress the feeling. Further proving my point, Neville asks himself “Why hadn’t he looked more carefully? He couldn’t fight the sick apprehension he felt at the thought of Cortman’s being killed by these brutal strangers. But evidence proves that he wasn’t really looking Cortman was hiding in the chimney of his own house, discovered by the group of living vampires. Neville swears he’s gonna kill Cortman one day. Despite the fact that the people around him are vampires, he still treats some of them like people. Even more technically, none of them are alive. We’ve seen or read comical stories about how people deserted on an island go wonky and start talking to plants, but that’s far from Neville’s situation. Isolation doesn’t fair well for quite a few of us.
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