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ELLIE WILLIAMS

Ellie is a teenager who was born also a symbol of hope. For those Violence runs through Ellie's life
and raised in a world in ruins, who believe in the possibility of constantly and inevitably, sha-
where life is defined by survival a cure, she represents a miracle, ping her instincts and hardening
and loss. Raised under the wat- the last chance to save a world her view of the world. She grew up
chful eye of FEDRA in a military doomed to destruction. For Ellie, in a reality where killing became
boarding school, Ellie proves to be however, this condition brings an act of survival and a reaction
an intelligent, spirited, impulsive, with it an invisible responsibility, to successive losses. Yet beneath
and unexpectedly special young imposed on her from the moment this hard-won “armor,” a very hu-
woman. In a world ravaged by an she was discovered. No one asked man side stubbornly resists. It is
infection that turns humans into her if she wanted to be saved or in small gestures, knowing silen-
monsters, she is an anomaly, and if she wanted to be the salvation ces, and biting humour that Ellie
that makes her invaluable: she is of others. It is in this condition reveals that, despite everything,
immune to the fungus that turns that she finds herself involved in she still feels. And it is this ten-
people into monsters. a mission that takes her across sion between the brutality she
the country, accompanied by Joel, has learnt and the tenderness she
Her immunity becomes not only with whom she rarely has an easy resists that makes her deeply hu-
an object of scientific interest but relationship. man.

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