Mentorship In The Last Of Us

Mentorship is the key to every apprentice’s development and success. The mentor represents the connection between parent and their child, teacher and student, doctor and patient, god and man. The function of the mentor is to prepare the apprentice to overcome and face the unknown, to accept the adventure. The mentor can either be a wise women or man who leads the apprentice to the duty he or she was destined to complete. In both stories, The Road, and The Last of us, mentorship ultimately leads to the apprentice's heightened independence, as the impact of the mentor, the unintended learning and the obsolescence of the mentor, eventually concludes to the apprentice’s graduation, therefore, allowing him/her to pursue their journey in which they

An example would be when Joel taught Ellie how to fire a rifle. The world Joel and Ellie inhabit is filled with many varieties of dangers. Not only the infected are present, but as well as other non-infected individuals who would kill for survival. This requires the need of defence equipment with guns being the most efficient and reliable. This is the component where the mentor provides the apprentice with a special gift, this case being the rifle which is essential for protection. The gift or help the mentor is providing the apprentice with is usually earned by the apprentice’s learning, sacrifice or commitment. This will aid the apprentice (Ellie) for her journey ahead. (add citation). Joel did not allow Ellie to use a gun at the beginning, where now, he developed the trust Ellie wanted from him, he trusted her with his life. Consequently, Ellie became more of a confident individual and strengthened mentally. These are very important aspects to obtain for her to progress through her journey ahead and becoming more of an independent individual. In relation to the apprentice’s maturity as the plot progresses, he or she develops a sharper

The novel began with The Boy shadowing The Man’s footsteps as countless struggles, which dictated their survival, came upon them each day of their journey. With The Boy having a very little understanding of the current occurrences, he followed The Man’s ideologies and instructions. Through different experiences, The Boy developed a more enhanced understanding based on the current world they inhabit, which in some areas, differs to The Man’s understanding. Nearing the end of the novel, The Man decided to take vengeance by leaving the thief stripped of his clothing. “Papa, we have to go back, we aren’t going to leave him there” (McCarthy, 275). The Boy’s protests compelled The Man to go back and return the thief’s items. When The Man tries to assure The Boy that he “wasn’t going to kill him.” The Boy replies: “But we did kill him” (McCarthy, 279). The unintended learning from this is how The Boy’s understanding has diverged from his father, the Man. The Boy doesn’t understand the need to hurt others in any circumstances, even when they may pose danger to their survival or have already hurt them. However, on the other hand, The Man’s view is to not only retrieve what has been taken from them, but to seek revenge for the thief’s action, which in this case is leaving him on a road naked. The discordance between The Boy and The