description of the non-linear narrative mode, with the Billy and the author himself occasionally appearing as one of the dancers. He jumps from one scene to another, from earth to distant planet, from present to past, he even wears some shoes that make him look like his dancing: Billy had lost a heel, which made him bob up-and-down-up-and-down. The involuntary dancing, up-and-down, up-and-down, made his hip joints sore. (45) The Americans had no choice but to leave trails in the snow as unambiguous
The Last of Us is a near-perfect analog for The Road, a literary masterpiece written by Cormac McCarthy. Both present a hopeless, post-apocalyptic situation navigated by two characters – an adult and a child – with nothing but absolute despair surrounding them. Like The Road, The Last of Us is perpetually dangerous and unpredictable, and like The Road, what happened to get society to a point of rapid decay isn’t the focus. It’s the story of the characters at hand, and those characters alone, at the