Speaking Lost Literary Elements

Every type of literary work is identified by certain comprising elements that are relatively unique to that specific work of art and not only they are the brick and mortar of that text but also evidences of the otherwise hidden internals of it. In this paper Lost was decomposed in order to point out the structural components that brought about its success and then a one-to-one mapping between its feature and composite novel's features was performed in an attempt to show how Lost goes beyond being an elementary TV show and enters the realm of literature. Generally speaking Lost is a collection of complex, intertwined short stories that are temporally dislocated and out of order and yet are introduced in a fashion that makes everything clear

All the characters and their back stories always point to why and how they will end of on the Island and even if this fact is not explicitly mentioned, the reader is directed to create the link rather intelligently. The Island is such a huge referential point that characters sometimes refer to it as a person or try to understand its motivations and agendas. The Island binds everything and everyone together in a way that one may feel as if the rest of the world does not really exist in any noticeable way because there is not one shred of evidence that doesn't lead to the Island. It is the host good and evil in its purest form and it is what gives meaning and motivations to those polars because the Island is what drives everyone to be better or worse. The island exists nowhere and has very little physical connections to the real world yet it exists in the collective minds of all the characters and borderlines on reality so much that the laws of physics, time-space continuum and the very matter of life and death becomes blurry pointing the viewer in a direction of a place that only exist in the mind of the characters (or even only

First of all Co-protagonist technique is heavily used as there are a lot of characters each with their own complete and sensible back story which has a meaningful beginning and concludes at some point but still strongly connects to all the other protagonists when it is their turn to be focused on. Then the relatively extensive use of communal protagonist can be observed where people always belong to a certain group or society which is normally in conflict with other groups and in this way sometimes one story can be told using multiple perspectives, every time with its own unique series of events and motivations. The third tool mainly used by composite novels is to create a collective protagonist that the reader can consistently relate to during the story; Lost uses this method by defining a miserable, broken and hopeless human being who needs the Island to add meaning to her/his life and in this way every little short story has the exact same protagonist yet this is secluded carefully by means of telling the story of different