*LOST*

Events from History

The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold

On December 12th, 1910, Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold left home and never came back. She was never again found, and even today, remains a mystery. In Lost, the author includes this actual event because it adds to the main theme that one day you could be here, the next gone. Dorothy also helps Essie realize how nice of a family she has, when Dorothy talks about her running away because her parents would throw her out anyways. Some inaccuracies of this storyline is that everything other then Dorothy disappearing is all just a conspiracy theory. We have no idea if she really took the name Harriet, and worked at a factory, or if she died in that factory when a fire started, or even if she was alive after she disappeared.

New Jersey Pier Explosion

On February 1st, 1911, 30 people died when workers were unloading gunpowder on a pier in New Jersey. For miles around, the explosion could be felt. In Lost, the author includes this event because it gave Harriet an alibi for why her husband had died, and it couldn’t be proven wrong, because some of the people who died couldn’t be identified.

Triangle Factory Fire

On March 25th, 1911, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burned to the ground, killing 146 young women, becoming the worst workplace tragedy until September 11th, 2001. The author includes this event in Lost to once again give Essie the belief that one day you could be here the next, gone, by giving her a near death experience in the factory. This also finally pushes her to giving in to the thought that Zelda is really dead. There weren’t many inaccuracies when depicting this. They even talked about how the majority of the woman didn’t die from the fire, but from jumping out the window voluntarily, or how woman jumped down the elevator shaft after the elevator had just past to try to get down.

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