Ben - Locke Connection (LostLos rambles too) - Page 2

Perhaps the connection between Ben and Locke are they were both born prematurely. According to Lostpedia Locke was 6 months and Ben was 7 months... I wonder if Walt was an early baby as well.

Here is something interesting on Locke and Ben!

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Unmistakable parallels between John and Ben have been drawn:

Both born to a mother named Emily
Both born prematurely
Both have a visitor from the Island almost immediately (Horace for Ben, Alpert for John)
Both are monitored by Richard Alpert from an early age
Both can see and know things that they shouldn't from early childhood
Both are raised by people who are largely indifferent to them
Both are social outcasts

Both kill their fathers
Both suffer, and subsequently recover from, serious spinal injury/disease
Both are aware of and can interact with Jacob

What are we meant to take from this? Are they in some sense brothers?

Well, technically Locke didn't kill his own father. Are they sort of alter egos / yin and yang / Kane and Abel or mirror images of each other ?

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Originally Posted by KatenSawyer4Ever

the Swoozie Kurtz Emily is someone else who showed up or was sent to be Locke's mom when he was looking for some reason?

I think they are from the same Emily and the Cain and Abel references apply. I think you are right that Emily died after Ben's birth and the Swoozie Kurtz Emily is not related to Locke.