Castaway is a movie starring Tom Hanks as the main character, Chuck. Throughout the movie, Chuck shows again and again how important communication is to him. It starts out with him delivering packages and such for FedEx, but as a plane he had boarded crashes, he begins to face some difficult challenges. He floated to an island, survived for a long period of time, and constructed a raft to transport him across a vast amount of water to a ship where he was rescued. Four major things in Castaway were: symbolism, the importance of communication, using nature for good, and abusing nature. Throughout Castaway there were many symbols that the viewer could pick up on. The lighthouse in the picture was one of the first few symbols. It represents how
