Thursday, January 17, 2008

Luisita Gutierrez Final exam

Castaway is one of the best movies I have seen this semester. The movie Castaway is not only about how to survive but how to value time too. In this movie chuck learns how to value and survive time as well. Chuck is a man that cares a lot about his job at Fed-x. He is always rushing through things and doesn't have much time for anything not even his girlfriend.
Chuck takes a plane and leaves his girlfriend behind thinking he'll come back soon, but little does he know something bad is about to happen. Chucks airplane crashes and practicaly all the passengers did not survive the accident. Chuck realizes he is stuck on the island and and all he can see is the pure blueness of the ocean ahead. He had lost his shoes in the accident and is walking bare footed. Chuck realizes he's very alone and doesn't know what to do.
Chuck had to overcome some obsticals. He became very hungry and thirsty. He found some coconuts but they were hard as a rock, he tryed breaking it in half but once he did all the juice spilled outof it. He became pretty mad, but tryed again, this time he found a rock and somewhat drilled a hole in it and drank the juice. Next he was hungry so he tryed to catch fish in the ocean water, but all he could catch were little tiny fish. When he was walking along the sand he saw that a man was floating in the water. He swam across to see if he was still alive but unfortunatly he was not. He draged him out of the water and took his shoes and some clothes. He found out he was a dilivery guy from Fed-x. He fond some shipment from Fed-x and took it, there was a box and in it was a dress, he also found a vollyball too. he went back and tryed to build a fire, he couldn't and he became very frustrated he even cut his hand, with that blood he drew a face on the vollyball and called it willson. He continued trying to start a fire while talking to his buddy willson, suddenly he saw some smoke and sparks coming out and soon became a fire out of two sticks. That was a major creation in this movie, he also made like a small shelter so that he could sleep inside of it. once he became so despreate and lonely he tryed killing himself but he remembered that he wanted to go back home. To survive being alone he keep a picture of his girlfriend and talked to willson, even though he didn't talk back he was there to listen he was Chucks companionship while he was stranded. He tryed to get pass the reef once but the waves were to big and strong it tilt him over and he cut his leg. As years went by he became a very good fisher, it was like if he had his own little home there. He wanted to go back home so bad he built a raft with a little shelter on it so that he could off the island, all he needed was to get passed the reef and the waves. When he was ready he went for it, the waves were big and strong and all he had in his head was to get back home. He finally passed the waves and said good-bye to the island he spent four years on.
After four years of being stranded on an island he returned home and the first place he went to was his girlfriends house. He learned to value time when straneded in making a fire, catching fish/food, building a shelter and a raft, passing the reef and having patience while being alone. When he learned to value his time he was more organized and had enough time for things.

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