Ellie the last of us part 2 vs 110/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Unlike Ellie, Abby experienced the death of someone she loved wholeheartedly, someone that she did not resent in the slightest. Her quest for revenge leads to a similar emotional devastation that Ellie experiences and yet, surprisingly, Abby’s capacity to forgive seems to exceed Ellie’s own. After all, she spends five years hunting for Joel. To be robbed of a parent so young causes a similar darkness to fester in Abby’s heart. Unlike the 19-year-old Ellie, Abby still depended on her father for love, protection, and emotional support. Abby lost her father when she was around 14 or 15, the same age that Ellie was in The Last Of Us Part 1. Similarly, Abby goes through a parallel circumstance. Joel simply wasn’t supposed to die yet, and so Ellie had no time to emotionally prepare for his death and take the steps necessary to ensure that she found closure after he was gone. However, when a young person loses a parent, the grief is often magnified. While the loss is devastating, a middle-aged adult likely has developed more coping strategies than someone who is very young. More often than not, this sort of trauma occurs in people who have reached middle age, people whose elderly parents have died. ![]() The possibility for closure dies as well, and this can cause an even more devastating grieving process for a child than if their relationship with their parent was completely healthy. When a family member, particularly a parent, dies suddenly, the children of that person are robbed of the ability to resolve any issues they had with that parent in life. Oftentimes, difficult emotional conversations between family members are postponed, or sometimes not possible altogether. In the real world, familial conflicts are often left to fester. And yet the events of the game teach Ellie a powerful lesson that she is once again too young to learn: one must sometimes create closure for oneself. She is unable to let Joel go because her feelings towards him are still unresolved, and that emotional pain stokes the flames of the blackest hatred toward Abby imaginable. She had hoped that she would have the rest of her young life to forgive her father, but instead she was only given a few years.Ībby robbed Ellie of her ability to grow as a person. ![]() When Abby murders Joel, she also murders Ellie’s ability to find true closure in their relationship. Ellie may be close to forgiving Joel before he is taken from her, but it’s possible that she wasn’t quite there yet. It is better than it was, but there is still somewhat of an awkwardness underneath. There is the sense that Ellie and Joel’s relationship is still unresolved. This is perhaps why her hatred of Abby runs so deep, deep enough for Ellie to be incapable of letting it go, no matter how many people suffer because of it. Nevertheless, she’s committed to trying to forgive Joel for his betrayal of her trust, even though she is unsure she will ever be able to. He is something that Ellie can’t help but resent, no matter the depth of her love for him. He is well-meaning, sweet, and overprotective in the way father figures tend to be of their daughters. Ellie is a queer teenager born in the ruins of the northeast, and Joel is a 61-year-old man from Texas who still remembers the old world. ![]() There is even a sense that the pair have grown apart due to who they are as people. You don’t exactly walk away from that without an issue that needs to be discussed in therapy.Īfter all, he took her from the Salt Lake City hospital without her consent and lied to her about what occurred there for years. After all, she opens a man’s head with a machete like a watermelon. During the events of the “Winter” chapter, Ellie has to rely on a newfound savagery that no child should ever have to experience. Her greatest and most painful loss of innocence comes when she is forced to kill a man in the ruins of Pittsburg. She is nearly torn apart by zombies, and eaten by cannibals, and left to fend for herself when Joel is injured. Where Joel sees a murder weapon like a gun, Ellie sees a cool prop used in action movies.ĭuring the events of The Last Of Us Part 1, Ellie is exposed to the cold and brutal realities of the world. Where Joel sees bookstore with no supplies worth taking, Ellie sees a place where she can find a kick-ass comic book. Where Joel sees an abandoned hotel lobby, Ellie sees a stage where she can act out the role of a fancy hotel guest. She experiences the world in a different way than the cynical, battle-hardened Joel. She is curious, adventurous, and altogether naive. Besides a romantic, fateful trip into an abandoned mall with a childhood friend, Ellie has never left the Boston QZ. She is seeing the world as it is for the first time. She is at an age where she is just beginning to be independent. In the first game, Ellie is 14 years old. ![]()
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