Lost Character Personalities – Part 20 of 24 – Ana Lucia Cortez June 28, 2007
Posted by Kelsey Martineau in Lost Character Analysis.Tags: Lost, Lost Character Analysis
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Ana Lucia Cortez. Ana was a very different character. She almost reminds you of a female Sawyer in many ways. Her death, by Michael’s hands, was very unexpected. She is very headstrong, and likes to do things her way or the highway. When I saw her meeting with Jack in the airport, I somehow had a feeling that we would see that character come back later in the show, and to my surprise, I was right.
She struggles day by day with the guilt of killing someone. She killed someone in vengeance. She had the opportunity to turn her in, while at a police lineup, but instead, she let him go, and murdered him. The reason being is the fact he shot her and killed her baby while she was still pregnant, and she couldn’t let it go. It seems like we can see a pattern here with almost every main character of this show, even if they were only a temporary character. Everyone has something that they can or at least couldn’t in their past, let go of. Jack couldn’t let go of Sarah, Hurley couldn’t let go of his eating disorder, Sawyer couldn’t let go of what the con-artist did to him when he was a child, among all the other characters that have issues. Perhaps the island is some kind of second chance to make things right in life? At this point we really don’t know.
Back to the character though, Ana Lucia wished to be a loner. We saw her character begin to come around more and more, just before Michael killed her. Her running to Sydney with Jack’s dad, Christian, shows us precisely what kind of person she is. She wanted to run from her problems, instead of facing them, which isn’t always the best idea in life. We have to confront our issues, just like we have to confront our fears. Running doesn’t always solve something, it just leaves it behind. We see Ana appear in one of Eko’s visions, when Eko was told to help John, and find the “question mark.”
What can we derive from Ana’s personality? That running from problems in life isn’t always the right answer. I think that we can also learn that forgiveness is a very important thing. I think we’ve all had times in our life that we knew we needed to forgive someone for something they had done, but either we are to prideful, or hold a grudge. We can also see in Ana, that we have to be more caring, because being hostile in life toward people won’t get you anywhere.
Naturally, your analysis of Ana-Lucia seemed 100% negative. Were you able to see any positive traits in her character?
” She is very headstrong, and likes to do things her way or the highway.”
You’ve just described most of the major characters . . . including the “exaulted” Jack Shephard.
Actually, you’re wrong. Jack is nothing like Ana-Lucia. Jack didn’t choose to lead these people. They look to him for guidance. He didn’t step up and say, “Look at me, I’m your leader, you will follow.” When stuff happens, they look to Jack. The characters are nothing alike. It’s clear that Ana-Lucia is nothing like Jack, due to the fact that she will hold a gun to people’s head in order to get her way.
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Actually, you’re wrong. Jack is nothing like Ana-Lucia. Jack didn’t choose to lead these people. They look to him for guidance. He didn’t step up and say, “Look at me, I’m your leader, you will follow.” When stuff happens, they look to Jack. The characters are nothing alike. It’s clear that Ana-Lucia is nothing like Jack, due to the fact that she will hold a gun to people’s head in order to get her way.
You really don’t know Jack well . . . do you. He may not have chosen to become the leader, but he became one he was like a lot of the others – “You do it my way, or it’s the byway.”
You complain that Ana would hold a gun to people’s head to get her way? Jack had a habit of holding back needed medication from Sawyer to get the latter to cooperate. Nor was he above using a gun on Locke or any other castaway who gave him problems. Or he would treat you like a chilld . . . like he did Kate countless of times.
Ana-Lucia wasn’t perfect, but neither was Jack. I think you’re suffering from Jack Shephard worship.
Wow. You really like Ana don’t you?
He held back medication from Sawyer because of cause and effect, not purposeful manipulation. Sawyer, just like Kate, was a loose cannon. Sawyer would run around like a madman if someone didn’t keep him under control, and Kate had to be treated like a child. She was a convict for Christ’s sake! I think you look at this characters a little to shallowly. You have to consider their history. It’s what the show’s all about.
If the people look to Jack as a leader, even if he doesn’t want to do it, they need to listen to him.
No one is perfect on the island. That’s pretty obvious to me. The entire show revolves around each and every character having numerous issues. And, for the record, I never said Jack was perfect. We see even more about him and some of his flaws in the latest season.