Jin-Soo Kwon.  Jin is another great character.  It may be a little tough to analyze him, because of his failure to speak English; however his past shows a lot.  It’s kind of funny to me that you can see his personality even though he doesn’t even talk to the other people.  In my opinion, there are two parts of Jin’s life; one before he began working for his wife’s father, and one after.  If you look at the past, before her father came into the picture, Jin seems to be a much more sensitive, easy-going guy.

I absolutely love the episode with the woman in orange.  This can teach us so much in life.  In case you don’t remember it, it’s the episode based on Jin’s history, and we see him talking to a friend of his at the beginning of the episode.  His friend is reading some type of book that would foretell the future, and he told Jin that love would find him soon.  Jin asked what color she would be wearing, and his friend said orange.  Jin took it almost as a joke, and shrugged it off.  Later in that episode, at the very end, Jin is walking down a road beside a river, because he had just quit his newly acquired job, and he passes an absolutely beautiful woman.  He noticed after she walked by that she was wearing orange, and he looked back to take a second glance, and then he bumped into Sun (his wife).  That one single thing teaches us so much.  It shows us that one small occurrence, good or bad, can lead to a better thing.  It shows us that one thing in our life, no matter how right it feels, can lead to something bigger.  It’s a chain of events in his life that lead to her.  Coincidence?  Who knows, but it’s an encouraging thought.  I think we’ve all had those times in our life where we sit back and say, why is this happening to me?  What is going on?  But then, later in life, when you have the ability to zoom out and look at the big picture, it’s a lot clearer.  It’s just getting to that point is sometimes tough.

Jin has a good heart, even after he started working for Sun’s father.  Although it probably hardens over time, we see him spare peoples’ lives in numerous episodes.  It amazes me too how people like Michael and Jin can hate each other’s guts at one point, and then become friends later.  It amazes me even more since Jin can’t speak English.  I think Michael and Jin are actually very similar, but Jin seems to be more caring.  He’s similar to Michael in the fact that they are both stubborn.  That’s one aspect of both of them that I really don’t like.  I think he’s courageous though.  The fact that he went on the raft shows that.  I believe that Jin thinks that hard work will get you far in life, which I don’t necessarily agree with.  He’s extremely hard on Sun, until season two anyway.

What can we learn from Jin?  That hard work doesn’t give us everything.  We can also learn that the little things in life that seem meaningless can really be very important.  Times that we will cry over things will always lead to better situations.  The hard part is realizing that while you’re in that situation, and understanding that things work out in the end.