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The Last of Us (THEMES (DARKNESS, LIGHT, FATHERHOOD, LOSS, NATURE,…
The Last of Us
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INTRODUCTION
JOEL STRUGGLES TO FIND WORK
TO SUPPORT HIS DAUGHTER SAM
A VIRUS OUTBREAK IS REPORTED ON THE NEWS WHICH CAUSES THEM TO FLEE THE CITY HE LOSES HIS DAUGHTER SAM AS SHE IS MISTAKEN FOR AN INFECTED PERSON.
PART 2
JOEL DECIDES TO TAKE THE JOB AS IT IS THE ONLY WAY HE CAN MAKE MONEY AT THIS POINT IN TIME AND HE IS STRUGGLING. HE DECIDES TO TAKE ELLIE FROM ONE SIDE OF AN INFECTED POST-APOCALYPTIC AMERICA TO THE NEXT. THE ROAD AHEAD IS DANGEROUS AND FILLED WITH CHALLENGES. ON THE WAY THEIR RELATIONSHIP GROWS AND ELLIE REVEALS WHY SHE IS SO IMPORTANT AND WHERE SHE IS GOING. SHE IS IMMUNE TO THE ZOMBIE-LIKE INFECTION AND IS HEADING TO A HOSPITAL RUN BY A PARAMILITARY GROUP CALLED THE FIREFLIES. WHEN JOEL AND ELLIE ARRIVE TO THE MARKED LOCATION THEY SEE THAT IT IS ABANDONED AND OVERRUN WITH INFECTED AND THE UN-DEAD. ON A TAPE-RECORDER THEY FOUND, LEFT BY ONE OF THE FIREFLIES, JOEL FINDS OUT THAT THEY HAVE MOVED TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION AND THEIR JOURNEY STARTS AGAIN. BEFORE EXITING THE ABANDONED HOSPITAL A TYPE OF INFECTED CALLED 'RUNNERS' CHASE THEM WHICH CAUSES JOEL TO FALL OF THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE HOSPITAL AND TO SERIOUSLY INJURE HIMSELF AS A METAL BAR PIERCES HIS ABDOMEN, ELLIE CARRIES HIM TO SAFETY.
TIME-SKIP TO WINTER JOEL IS RECOVERING AND THEY NOW HAVE A FATHER, DAUGHTER BOND BETWEEN THEM AS JOEL SEE'S A LOT OF SAM IN ELLIE. SHE HAS NOW LEARNED TO HUNT AND IN DOING SO SHE MEETS A PACK OF HOSTILE SURVIVORS WHO TRY AND KILL ELLIE, JOEL WHILST STILL RECOVERING SAVES ELLIE FROM BEING NEARLY HACKED TO DEATH BY A MACHETE WHICH FURTHER STRENGTHENS THEIR BOND. AFTER A FEW WEEKS OF TRAVELING JOEL MEETS UP WITH HIS BROTHER WHO TELLS THEM WHERE THE NEW HOSPITAL IS WHERE THE FIREFLIES ARE HOLD UP WAITING FOR ELLIE. ONCE THEY ARE THERE JOEL FINDS OUT THAT THEY ARE EVIL AND THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN PRODUCE A CURE FROM ELLIE IS BY KILLING HER BY EXTRACTING STEM CELLS FROM HER BRAIN, IN A SELFLESS ATTEMPT JOEL KILLS ALL THE FIREFLIES AND STEALS ELLIE.
CONCLUSION
JOEL TAKES ELLIE BACK TO HIS BROTHERS BASE WHICH IS HIDDEN FROM THE FIREFLIES AND THE U.S. MILITARY WHERE SHE ASKS JOEL TO PROMISE HIM THAT THERE WERE OTHERS NOT JUST ELLIE AND THAT BY KILLING THE FIREFLIES, JOEL DID NOT LOSE THE ONLY CHANCE OF A CURE. JOEL PROMISES BUT IT IS NOT TRUE AS ELLIE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS KNOWN TO HOLD THE CURE.
PART I
TIME-SKIP TO SUMMER THE YEAR AFTER JOEL IS MOURNING THE LOSS OF HIS DAUGHTER BUT STILL STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE IN A QUARANTINE ZONE SET UP BY THE GOVERNMENT, THE VIRUS HAS NOW BEEN DETECTED ACROSS THE GLOBE AND THE ONLY SAFE PLACES ARE MILITARIZED ZONES, MARLENE A FRIEND HELPS JOEL TO FIND WORK ALTHOUGH IT IS ILLEGAL AND OUTSIDE OF THE SAFE ZONE. THE WORK IS TO TAKE A GIRL BY THE NAME OF ELLIE FROM ONE SIDE OF AMERICA TO THE NEXT.
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INFECTED
FIRST INFECTED, SLOW AND WEAK
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