what did that tattoo mean on jacks arm on lost ?? why dic he get in too a fight ??

Answer 1

he walks amongst us but he does not belong...

he got into the fight coz he had offened their religion, and in the ways of the world, they showed thier anger and kicked the crap out of him...

Answer 2

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what did that tattoo mean on jacks arm on lost ?? why dic he get in too a fight ??

Answer 4

It means he is a leader,and because of that he is always going be lonely. He got into a fight because foreigners aren't supposed to get the tattoos.

Answer 5

Jack has a Sak yant tattoo on his left shoulder. Sak Yant or Sak Yan is the Thai name for the Tattooing of Sacred geometrical designs on the skin.

The tattoo contains 4 Chinese characters taken from Mao's poem and a Lebanese Phalangist symbol.

Jack did not get all his tattoos in Thailand – only the bottom rung.

English Translation of the Poem - Ch'ang-sha 1925

Standing alone in the autumn cold:
The Hsiang flowing northward,
Orange Island, the cape.
I see thousands of hills in crimsoned view,
The woods piling up in deep-dye;
The mighty stream, in its gleam of jade,
One hundred barques racing by.
Eagles high up, cleaving the space,
Fish gliding above shallow ground;
Ten thousand creatures, under frosty a sky,
all fighting for freedom.

In the waste's dreariness brooding,
I ask the blue space without bonds:
Who masters fate's rise and descent?

Once I came here with a hundred companions,
Vivid the months and years yet, filled with pride.
Schoolmates we were, and young altogether,
Upright and honest, in the bloom of our lives;
Impetuous students, full of enthusiasm,
We cast all restraints boldly aside.
Pointing to China, its mountains and rivers,
Setting the people afire with our words,
And counted for muck all those ranking high.
Do you still can remember:
How, venturing midstream, the oars lashed the waters
And the waves yet staying the flight of our boats?

In the Season 3 episode "Stranger in a Strange Land", Isabel translates Jack's tattoo for the viewer. She reads "He walks amongst us but he is not one of us." Jack replies "That's what it says, but that's not what it means."

We know what they mean because of the flashbacks - origins of Jack's tattoos are revealed. Jack received the tattoos in Phuket, Thailand from a woman named Achara whom Jack met on the beach. Achara has a gift in which she reveals the true personality of a person, which she then tattoos on them. Jack demanded a reading and the tattoo, even though he was an outsider. Her reading of Jack was that he was a leader, but that this made him lonely, the tattoo however reads: 'He walks amongst us but he is not one of us'
We know what they mean to Jack, that there is a deeper meaning behind the tattoos beyond what they just "say". And that deeper meaning revolves around how he left America to try and "find himself" and all of his pains and struggles and how he is a "leader but this makes him alone and angry".

They are his mark. They are his fate and a representation of his desire to find himself, which is the desire of every character and part of the double meaning of the show; that these people are literally as well as metaphorically lost.

The reason Jack got beaten up is that he broke the rules of an outsider getting a mark.

Answer 6

He walks amongst us but he isn't one of us.
He got beat up because he was not supposed to get the tattoo, the girl had some sort of power/gift she could see who people were, don't know why he got beat up it will probably explain it later on, I hope