Chuck Noland

The story ends with Brian cooking a meal on his fire. When a plane randomly comes and lands on the lake. It turns out Brian left on the emergency transmitter. That attracted the pilot.

After a plane drives by and does not acknowledge Brian. Brian tries to commit suicide. He survives and after he survives he begins to hunt for fish. Brian teaches himself how to create a bow and hunt Brian finally succeeds and learns how to do it. He is proud of himself.

He loses faith in himself some time after arriving on the island, so he decides to commit suicide by hanging himself over a cliff. Luckily, the tree branch that supported the noose snapped which would mean him falling to his death instead. Chuck then realizes that it's a sign that he needs to live. Before the departure of the island, Chuck doesn't have much faith that he will survive the trip back to civilization since he writes, "Tell Kelly that Chuck Noland loves her" on a rock in case somebody comes across it later on. If he was certain that he'd succeed in the journey back, he would not be doing so since he could tell her himself in person. Shortly after departing, he encounters a whale swimming close by. It is the first living thing that's seen throughout the movie after the crash, other than Chuck himself and his food sources. There are no sound of birds, either. This gives him more faith that he will arrive back to civilization where people are alive. Wilson is the only companion Chuck has on the entire island, and he frequently holds conversations as well as arguments with Wilson in order to stay sane. It becomes his closest and only companion; Chuck stores so many of his thoughts and emotions in the volleyball that it begins to appear alive. He puts all of his faith in the volleyball. This can be shown when he nearly loses Wilson on

The movie castaway is about a main character called Chuck Noland who gets stuck in an island after a plane crash. At the start of the film, Chunk who was working for the Federal Express was living a paced life, obsessed with time and observed in his job. He also had a fiancé called Kelly and was soon to be married. While Chunk was

“Takes a lot of work to bring a man back to life” means that figuratively, it takes a while for someone to become accustomed to the normality of regular life again.  “I had power over nothing” means that Chuck couldn’t control anything on the island. Which is so weird for him because he is used to being in control of everything in his life. On the island, he couldn't even control how he would die. “And I know what I have to do now, I got to keep breathing” means that all chuck could control was if he lived, and he realized he had to.

364-374). It shows that Jimmy was still in search of civilization around him and thinks that there still might be people alive out there. His goal is still to find the civilization around him. In the movie, cast away, Chuck also has an objective which he uses to survive the stay on the island. His mission was “to build a raft that he can use to reunite himself with the mainland or a passing boat nearby” (Cast away).

“Tomorrow the sun will rise, who knows what that tide could bring,” (Castaway), and “don’t lose hope,”(Martel), “wait for your sun to rise.”(Bliz Pix) In both survival stories, while different, survival skills are reactions are brought out similarly. As well as through the use of humanization both depend on their surroundings to survive the tragic events they will face and the hope they must hold on to. Pi, a strict vegetarian lost at sea with a bengal tiger, and Chuck Noland, a fedex guy stranded on an deserted island after a plane crash must use prior knowledge and a great deal of strength to survive in such a way.

Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old from New York City, boards a plane headed to the Canadian north woods to visit his father because of his parents' divorce. Midflight the pilot begins to have a heart attack and dies in a matter of seconds, forcing Brian to take over the controls. The plane crashes into a lake where Brian is left stranded with limited food and severe injuries.

He ends up being found lying on his boat of Logs and such. Chuck comes back and is surprised but understanding that his

Throughout the movie, the channels of NVC convey to the watcher how Chuck is adapting, i.e., how much time has passed, his personal journey, and his change in ideals, etc. When he gets on the plane, his clothes are fitted, he is wearing long pants, socks, shoes, an undershirt, a button up dress shirt, and a sweater. His hair is short and facial hair nearly non-existent. After he crashes he is soaked, weighted down, his sweater is stretched, pants are hanging past his feet, he has lost his shoes and only has one sock. Quickly, he adapts to his environment; his pants get shorter, his shirt comes off, he commandeers shoes and alters them for his benefit. His hair begins to get longer, which is very evident in his facial hair, and his skin starts to show sun spots and become tan. As four years pass he is wearing nearly nothing, his hair is savage like, long, untrimmed, and not maintained. His skin is so tanned he appears leathery, and he has lost so much weight his skin hangs off of his bones. His appearance, and artifacts help distinguish time, and how he has adapted and learned to survive over it.

Chuck ends up developing this type of character development when he is reunited with Kelly. He expects everything to go back to normal after he will be with Kelly. His relationship with Kelly changes after he finds out that she had moved on with her life, has children and is married. Chuck understands that, just like time, you must move forward. On the island Chuck has a volleyball companion named Wilson. He becomes emotionally attached to this object to keep himself less alone on the island. After Chuck loses Wilson in the ocean, Chuck feels

Wilson, a volleyball who became Chuck’s only companion as he was stranded was who kept him sane during the time they were together. Chuck’s physical needs were being met by Wilson as Chuck was able to maintain his ability to keep up with enough physical activity for him to be able to gather and create tools they would both need to survive, such as starting a fire. As Chuck Argues with Wilson, he fulfills his identity needs by believing that his argument makes him a more logical, smarter person. Chuck is also able to meet his social needs as he uses Wilson’s presence as a listening one he could use to share ideas he had throughout time.

Additionally, this fluctuation of faith can also be seen through Chuck Noland in Cast Away. When Chuck Noland reaches his lowest point of hopelessness, he attempts to commit suicide. As time progresses, his faith in seeing Kelly again slowly diminish because Noland is aware that “she had to let [him] go” (Zemeckis, Cast Away). He realizes that she probably thinks that he is already dead and thus in a sense, Noland knows that he has already lost her. Like Pi, Noland also loses his motivation of surviving, as he believes Kelly has moved on with her life and begins to believe that he is going die alone on this island.

In Castaway, the main conflict that Chuck Nolan faces with another man is his arguments with Wilson. From the time that he makes Wilson, to the time he loses Wilson, he is constantly talking to him. They have arguments about different things that they could do. Wilson will offer one idea, but Chuck wouldn’t like it, so he would offer an idea. They would banter until Chuck made a final decision. Wilson was Chuck’s only friend on the island, without him Chuck would have been even more lonely then what he already was.

The volleyball, Wilson, becomes Chuck’s only companion on the island. Wilson is Chuck’s need for companionship personified. Wilson is a part of Chuck as Wilson’s face is made of his blood and is the physical manifestation of Chuck’s mental state. “I know you.” Chuck repeats to Wilson and this signifies that Chuck is aware that Wilson is a part of him while demonstrating Chuck trying to reassure himself of who he is. When Wilson is lost at sea, Chuck is devastated at losing his ‘friend’ and one of the only things kept him sane on the island. Chuck’s palpable anguish evokes sympathy and grief within the responder.