Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Jack thought of Locke as an intriguing man, physically handicapped but mentally capable, really old in age but truly reborn, deviating from society while always desiring structure and conformance, immeasurably wise but undoubtedly naive, violent and dangerous yet soft and gentle, constantly angry but always kind, immoral in his supposed righteous ideas, vitally important, inescapably meaningful, and truly miraculous, but insignificant, foolish, and pathetic at the same time.
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I love this.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this sentence, because I too am a great fan of the show LOST. The parallelism of the sentence makes it very easy to follow and the many adjectives really paint a picture of what a complex character John Locke is (and how Jack feels about him as well). The complexity of his character really shows through the many descriptions which are often seen as dichotomies like handicapped/capable, old/reborn, deviating from/conformance, wise/naive, violent/gentle, angry/kind, immoral/righteous, etc. This description shows how people are not simply one or the other, black or white, they are a combination of many qualities, some being opposites of each other.
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