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I Am Legend And The Girl With All The Gift Comparison

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When you visualize an apocalypse, do you look at the fall of a just world or the beauty of a new beginning? The novella I Am Legend, and the movie, The Girl with All the Gifts are two-post apocalyptic stories that scrutinize the struggles of individuals trying to survive in a world ravaged by an infectious disease. I Am Legend is a bleak and introspective story that analyzes what it means to be the only human in a world where humanity has perished. On the other hand, The Girl with All the Gifts is more hopeful and shows the journey of a group with a desire to rebuild civilization. Both I Am Legend and The Girl with All the Gifts tell a post-apocalyptic story with a hopeful ending, but their main characters, settings, and tones differentiate …show more content…

The ominous tone of the novel I Am Legend offers a deeper exploration of the darker aspect of humanity, such as the psychological toll of living in a world where one is the only human left. While The Girl with All the Gifts shows a more assured view of how even in the face of an apocalypse, the human spirit remains unbroken, and hope can still prevail. Both stories explore the theme of sacrificing the last of humanity to save the world because the end of humanity is not completely the end, it's just a new beginning for a new world. Overall, I Am Legend, and The Girl with All the Gifts portray the apocalypse in two stories, the beauty, and the nightmare, in which both end with sacrifice being a vital part of life to mark a new beginning in time where survival is no longer needed to keep humanity alive because humans are not particularly needed to keep the world alive, as long as there's another form of beings that can think, learn, and evolve in a similar way humans could, the future of the world will continue to prosper for as long as those beings and those to come are

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