The symbol of angel’s wings on a package come to give him hope, but the story never suggests that it has anything to do with God. Reflecting on “fate’s” provision, Chuck concludes that we must always maintain hope because we never know what the tide might bring in next. In the end, Chuck and Kelly both make moral, honorable decisions about their future relationship. He is also very empathetic to a co-worker who has since lost his wife to cancer (in contrast to being awkwardly supportive years before). Upon returning home from his ordeal, Chuck apologizes to others for not being there for them during their own recent trials. In a touching scene, he looks at the ID of one of the dead crewmen who washed ashore just prior to burying him and realizes that he didn’t even know his friend’s real name-a testimony to the tyranny of the urgent and how busyness can distract us from relating to the people close to us at a deeper level. A sense of personal and professional responsibility is evident in Chuck, even after he’s marooned (he sorts and respects the beached parcels for days before opening any). Chuck comes to understand that his former outlook on life has cost him the things that are most important (“I should have never gotten on that plane” he tells Kelly). One of the crewmen on the doomed jet puts himself at risk by heroically assisting Chuck as the plane is going down. He shows amazing perseverance, whether trying to open coconuts or start a fire with sticks. Positive elements: In the throes of a desperate situation with no end in sight, Chuck manages to maintain a sense of hope during his four years on the island. It’s an ironic twist that Chuck’s problem-solving background helps him survive being a castaway while the skills learned as a castaway help him adapt to a new life in civilization. After a heroic struggle, he is saved and brought home. Fate finally offers Chuck a chance to escape the island on a raft. Daniel Defoe’s 18th Century literary hero, Robinson Crusoe, turned to a Bible and found God in the midst of nothingness. He must resist desperation and not reach the point of cracking up. Once Chuck’s physical needs are met, his biggest struggle involves his emotional and psychological health. Along with a picture of Kelly, it becomes a symbol of hope and a reason to endure. There is one package with an angel wing logo on it that he does not open. First, he must find a way to meet basic human needs (food, water and shelter), which he accomplishes with the help of various FedEx packages that have washed ashore with him. With no one there to vote him off the island, Chuck makes the best of it. On one such trip, Chuck’s manic existence abruptly halts when his plane goes down in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and he becomes stranded on a remote, uninhabited island. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment’s notice, to far-flung locales and away from his girlfriend, Kelly. Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock.
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