Lost is an American drama TV series. The show is about a group of people who survived a plane crash. When the plane crashed it crashed on a mysterious island.An island that has never been heard of. During the show, the survivors were not only lost on the island they were all so lost with themselves. What I mean by this is that the survivors had battles of their own that they were facing before the crash in which the island help point out their personal issues. The island also showed the survivors the importance of working together. In lost Dr. Jack said a very powerful statement; if we can’t live together we are going to die. This statement is very relevant in so many aspects. The two most important aspects are, everyone isn’t alone on the …show more content…
After Jack’s statement, the truth sunken into everyone’s head. They began to realize they need to work together to survive. They all had skills that were beneficial for their survival on the island. Where one may lack in an area of expertise another one is able to accommodate for the lack of expertise in an area. Take for example Jack he’s a doctor, so his skill is to treat people. You have John who knows how to hunt, so he was in charge of finding food. Then you have Sun, whose good in the garden and knows which natural herbs can be used to treat in absence of medicines. Then you have Sayid whose good with technology and is trying to make a transmitter from scratch. Then you have Shannon how was able to translate what the French woman was saying on the transmitter. Michael who’s a construction worker who created the blueprints of the raft that was used to go seek for help. The raft is one of the great examples of the survivors working together. The raft was only big enough for four people and they were 20+ survivors on the island. The survivors were able to set aside their pride and work on the raft together. They no longer carried on with every man for themselves mindset. If that was still the case they probably would have killed one another or sabotage each other to the point that the raft would have never been made. If the raft wasn’t made no one would be able to go out and seek
Kristen’s tattoo read, “Survival is insufficient.” In the beginning of the novel, Station Eleven, there is a quote, “No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism” (20 Mandel). Emily St. John Mandel portrays throughout the book how survival is insufficient, a repeating statement and theme. Arthur, Kristen, Tyler, Elizabeth, Jeevan, Clark, Miranda, in the book play a main role in this theme and connect into how survival and death is one of the greatest factors in the book. The novel contends that people, to be human, must accomplish something other than survive; they should live.
The crew had to learn how to work as a team. Joe Rantz in particular decided at one point in his life that he would never trust anyone again, since everytime he was comfortable with his life something went wrong, first his real mother died, then his stepmother left him. Joe wouldn’t work with his team until boat build George Pocock gave
The goal of any person stranded in an island is surviving. These boys are well aware of this goal and know they must stick with the leader that will help them survive the longest. The options these boys have for possible leaders are Ralph and Jack. On one hand, Ralph is focused on building a signal fire to be rescued. On the other hand, Jack focuses on settling on the island by providing food and protection.QUOTE OF BOYS NOT CARING FOR BEING RESCUED The biological factor that encourages these boys to follow the orders of Jack is the fact that the majority of the boys have little to no hope of being rescued. They probably believe that Jack can keep them alive for a long time on the island by providing protection against the beast everyone talks
This is an instance of diffusion of responsibility among the boys. In order for them to all survive everyone needs to pull their own weight and work to provide food and shelter. However the boys get lazy and start getting distracted by other things on the island. Golding states, “I mean who built all three? We all built the first one, four of us the second one, and me’n Simon built the last one over there.” (Golding.107). There are so many boys on the island that each one thinks it’s alright for them to slack a little. One by one they all start slacking and there is not enough people actually working in order to make up for all the boys who have stopped. All of the boys fell into witness behavior and watched as people worked rather than helping them. Similar to another part of Darley and Latane’s experiment with fake seizures. A group of students were all in a chat room where they had an allotted time to speak, one actor faked a seizure for the students to hear; yet, only a third of students reacted. They expected the others would help him, so they wouldn 't have to. The same with the boys, they expected the others to do the work for
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, The boys have just landed on the island are have gathered together. They talk about what they need to survive and how they will be rescued, when the meeting comes to an end Ralph mentions that, “there’s another thing. [They] can help them find [them]. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice [them]. So [they] must make smoke on top of the mountain. [They] must make a fire” (Golding 38). In the quote, the first assembly is happening right after the crash. They all group together and decide what their priorities are so they can get rescued. They all decided that they need fire, shelters, and food. It is in this very quote that survival is what drives one’s decisions because even after a plane crash, the surviving boys gather up and decide what they need to survive with. No matter what has happened, they all had the will to overpower the traumatic experience and decide and act upon their decisions. Along the same lines, in the movie, Castaway, Chuck Noland also demonstrates that survival is what influence one’s decisions. In movie Castaway, Chuck is seen doing many things that show how the will to survive impacts his decisions and actions. This is demonstrated when it is his first few days on the island, he
To begin, survival is the key in every ones mindset. You only live once as most people say. However, with Jack and Ralph and the rest of the boys, they all seemed that all hope was lost. They had been stranded in the island for months, hoping that one day, someone will find them and return them home. Ralph was the most panicked person in the group simply because he hadn’t cut his hair and it was growing. He also did not shower at all, and he did not shave or eat as much simply due to the lack of surviving. He had given up on the hope for rescue, until in chapter 12, he, along with Jack and the rest of the boys, were saved by an officer which saw the destruction and the vicious bodies of the ...
Betrayal is a human weakness because humans all want different things, and sometimes without knowing it on the path to getting what you want you betray the people around you by wanting something else than them. Once, you betray someone it tends to create enemies. It is very well demonstrated in this novel. Being stuck on island for many months can bring out your true colours. Jack is the oldest of the group, has dark red hair and he is the story's antagonist. With time, Jack starts changing his true colours are coming out. He is becoming more aggressive with others and is developing a darker side of him. The boys know that they need to stick together to survive on the island, but Jack thinks otherwise and he betrays the group of boys to start his own group. Those actions creates a rivalry between Jack and Ralph who is the other group leader on the island that most of the boys like. They consider each other as enemies which all comes back to humans being each other's greatest enemies. In the following quote you can see Jack trying to become the chief in the group which leads to betrayal,”A chief! A chief!” I ought to be chief” said Jack with simple arrogance. (Golding 18) In that quote,you can really see how he wants to lead and once they pick Ralph as leader he decides to betray the group. The fact that he creates his own group will create many conflicts on the island that will lead to many different
Jack, on the other hand, is doing nothing but causing chaos. Jack fails to realize that the boys need security, stability, and order on the island. Jack was a leader of the choir before the boys landed on the island. These boys, who were in the choir, still want to follow Jack; however, they have no discipline at all. The only thing that is on Jack’s mind is hunting.
When Louie was stranded on the raft, he never let circumstance get the better of him. The three survivors, Louie, Phil, and Mac, all had completely differing perspectives of their trouble. Louie and Phil stayed optimistic, while Maxc slowly deteriorated along with his hope. Hillenbrand wrote that "It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight. Maybe the difference was biological; some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt... Perhaps the men's histories had given them opposing convictions about their capacity to overcome adversity... Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's ...
Since Ralph is in charge, he lets Jack choose what he wants to lead on the island. Although, Ralph chooses the wrong person to lead hunting. Jack takes all of the power into his own hands. “Communism is supposed to mean we’re all in this together” (John). This is something that the boys on the island do not understand.
The political system that they had on the island was corrupt. It wasn't the system but the individuals who were responsible for corruption in society. At first they had a leader, Ralph. He made rules, held meetings and tried to keep things in order. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored and questioned. Jack was too concerned with hunting, to worry about the other things that can keep them alive, like the signal fire that would get them rescued, Madness came into his eyes. "I thought I might kill." "But you haven't yet (51)." Soon, Jack decides he's had enough of Ralph, "I'm not going to be part of Ralph's lot. I'm going by myself. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come (127)." He lures the other boys away and makes a tribe. Ralph's community deteriorates. Jack is responsible for the corruption of their society.
Jack, Roger, Maurice, and a the choir boys made up the savages. On the other hand, Jack paid a significant amount of his attention into the nature side; he spent a vast majority of his time on the island hunting and getting used to their new lifestyle. I, personally, did not understand why his group didn 't just break up into two so that the signal fire could be watched and their need to hunt was met as well. They could have killed two birds with one stone and remained whole with Ralph 's group. Instead, he used Ralph 's ideas to fulfill his interests and went against his theory. He played their conflict of being stranded on an island with no adults as, survival of the fittest, but of course in tribes and not individually. Jack knew it was important to be rescued but he did not want to live off of fruit the whole time he was there when he knew there was meat they were able to
No Bricks and No Temples: Coping with Crisis in “The Open Boat” Stephen Crane’s story “The Open Boat” concerns four people who are trying to reach land after surviving a shipwreck off the Florida coast. During the course of the story, they face dangers that are real physical threats, but they also have to deal with trying to make sense of their situation. The characters in this story cope with their struggles in two ways: individually, they each imagine that Nature, or Fate, or God, is behind their experiences, which allows them to blame some outside force for their struggle, and together, they form a bond of friendship that helps them keep their spirits up. . In “Becoming Interpreters: The Importance of Tone in ‘The Open Boat,’” Gregory Schirmer states that “‘The Open Boat has at its center two quite different views of man: as a helpless and insignificant being adrift in a universe that is wholly indifferent to him and his ambitions, and on the other hand, as part of a brotherhood that binds man to man in the face of that indifferent universe” (222).
Ralph and Jack’s image of what life on the island would be like and how they would go about it was very different in the beginning of the story to the end. Ralph begins saying ‘This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grown ups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.’(p:45). It is ironic how this optimism is shattered by the end of the novel and events turned out so badly as though it were almost foolish to think they’d have fun from the start. Jack also makes a surprisingly ironic turn in the novel where his ideas appear civilized and orderly in the beginning, ‘We’ll have rules! Lots of rules!’(p:44) however he is the one who becomes the leader of the savages and provokes fear of the beast.
FBNH wins the challenge of the government’s right to seize the tablets, because the FDA does not have express right to do so. However, the FDA does have over the “manufacture, distribution, or sale of adulterated or misbranded cosmetics,” (p. 201-202). Effectually, the FDA cannot seize the tablets but they can control the distribution and sale of them. Conclusively, FBNH wins the challenge of the government’s right to seize the tablets, but the government does retain the right to stop distribution and sales of the tablets.