Development
The episode was written to humanize Sawyer and set up the love triangle between him, Kate and Jack. It also shows the moral ambiguity of characters to reveal more of their personalities, with the ones introduced as heroes doing things that are not heroic - Jack beating Sawyer and eventually asking Sayid to torture him - and a villainous one proving to be not much of a bad person - Sawyer's backstory and flashback.
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“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“Such condition of suspended judgment indeed, in its more genial development and under felicitous culture, is but the expectation, the receptivity, of the faithful scholar, determined not to foreclose what is still a question—the “philosophic temper,” in short, for which a survival of query will be still the salt of truth, even in the most absolutely ascertained knowledge.”
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