Hurley Brings Light to the Shadowy BenJun 12 '08 Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line A little chocolate can make a big difference... One of my favorite moments in this fourth season of LOST occurred at the end of Cabin Fever, when Hurley, waiting with Ben to find out Jacob's marching orders from John, opens up an Apollo candy bar and, after sharing a brief glance with Ben, breaks off the bigger piece and hands it over. No words are exchanged, but it's a moment brimming with humanity and compassion. Throughout the show, Hurley's "love your enemies" attitude has helped dissolve many conflicts on the island and transform Sawyer from anti-hero to outright hero. I'd like to think this tiny gesture toward Ben, who has been the source of so much turmoil, might have similar good ripples - maybe taking him back, at an especially opportune moment, to the first time he was offered an Apollo bar, by the best (and, by some measures, only) friend he ever had. According to Wikipedia, Plato connected the name "Apollo" with simplicity, redemption and purification. Coincidence? I hope not. Apollo It isn't much: a silent glance, A second chance, a gentle touch. A careless shrug. The greater half From one whose laugh is like a hug, Whose empathy bursts into bloom Though Ben's presumed the enemy. An act of grace so undeserved; Surprise preserved upon Ben's face. So off-the-cuff, this chocolate clutch. It isn't much, but it's enough. LOST Parodies: Bohemian Rhapsody I Am a Rock White Christmas Christmas Canon Rock We Wish You a Merry Christmas Christmas in Killarney Henry the Eighth Sweet Baby James The Only Living Boy in New York Here, There and Everywhere He Was My Brother For Baby (For Bobbie) Sloop John B. When I'm 64 The Longest Time Run for the Roses You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore Eye of the Tiger Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Leader of the Band Same Old Lang Syne Cat's in the Cradle An Innocent Man The Boxer Sparrow Loves Me Like a Rock Der Fuehrer's Face Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Candle in the Wind Scarborough Fair / Canticle Hey Jude Tears in Heaven Bridge Over Troubled Water House of the Rising Sun Lover's Cross Lasso the Moon Rocket Man El Condor Pasa Hair Why Don't You Write Me? The Greening of Belfast She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Sons and Daughters I'll Follow the Sun What the World Needs Now Is Love Poems: Baby Brother The Pilot in the Pilot Vincent Of Sacrificial Death and Life John the Baptized Not Penny's Boat Finding Vincent I'm Lost Without...  |
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