Graphic Novel: Post #2 - Similarities

In my last post I mainly discussed the differences of the novel and the movie. In this post, I will discuss the similarities the two stories share. Mainly, they both have the same general plot of the last man on earth trying to stay alive. They both have a monster that only comes out at night and that carries a virus in their blood. Obviously they both have the same name, and family members names. Although the presence of the dog is seen throughout the whole movie, and doesn't appear until over half way through the novel, the dog still plays a role in Robert Neville's fight for life. Overtime, in the movie, Robert becomes lazy about cleaning in his apartment which his like the novels version of Neville, except he starts out being lazy. In both versions of this story, the main character, Robert Neville, deals with psychological problems revolving around his/their famil(y/ies). The main one is about his daughter Kathy, in both they have memories and flashbacks of her when she was happy and living safely with them. Kathy is remembered typically when something bad happens, like having to kill a zombie/vampire, which was a person, and could have well been her. Although there are many similarities and it is the same story technically, the differences still outweigh the similarities.