January 16, 2014

Time Enough At Last: Last Man Up

If I were going to write an adaptation of “Time Enough At Last,” I would still want to retain the moral of the episode.  It pictures a string of hope despite solitude and loneliness.
Who? The protagonist of the story is a boy born with a very weak respiratory system that he needed to literally live inside a ball for the rest of his life. This ball is a recent invention of his father who desperately sought for a cure for his son’s incapability. It carried the responsibility of providing him a controlled environment which is safe and suitable for him. It is equipped with a portable oxygen tank and all the other stuff he would need to survive. It is the 21st century and technology is a big part of the people’s existence.
Sandy grew while suffering from the discrimination of others. He never got the chance to make friends nor to even start a conversation with anyone other than his parents. He is trapped not just in a ball, but in a world full of harsh people, unable to accept his peculiarity. But one day, an unexpected crisis has changed everything about Sandy’s life. That was the day he started believing in what he couldn’t before.

The whole place was ravaged by the deadliest plague. Everyone was infected and soon they all died. Sandy, being the only one living in the most protected environment, was the only survivor. He dreaded that day, and the fact that he felt, for a moment, the comfort he never felt before. He felt lucky that though he had suffered a lot, there he was, totally fine while all else was gone. But as if that wasn’t enough for him to be grateful, he didn’t wish for any of those to happen. Alone inside the ball he called home, he mourned for his family’s loss.

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