Analyzing The Survivors From The TV Show 'Lost'

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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

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