Answer:
b. To prevent the monsters from jumping onto his house.
Explanation:
Richard Matheson's fictional novel "I Am Legend," tells the story of a young scientist named Robert Neville and his efforts to save the world from a plague that turned every living being into monsters. And in that effort to help rid the world of the plague, he also had to fight and overcome the barrage of attacks from these monsters lying in wait for him.
Neville, whose blood is immune to the infection, tries to help find a cure. But along that journey, he also encountered numerous monsters who lay in wait for him to make a mistake and be taken over. And knowing that the monsters come every night to his house, he decided to burn down the neighboring houses so that these monsters won't jump into his house.
Thus, the <u>correct answer is option b</u>.
