Can Ellie Survive This World Without Being Like Joel?

I was so proud that Ellie made it out by herself, but there was a part of me. I'm like, she's now a broken person like Joel. The central question was could Ellie survive this world without becoming like Joel? Yeah. And everywhere we've gone, we've been confronted with what people have to do in order to navigate this world. But we always get little glimmers of hope, right? We see children at Tommy's place and they look like kids. They are kids. It seems as if at least someplace childhood innocence and the civilization that we understood is valued and protected.