Tom Hank's Message In Cast Away

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The message in Cast Away is not necessarily about human survival, but survival of the human spirit. Tom Hanks portrays a guy who doesn’t really appreciate what he has. Now he alone on an island with a volleyball as his only friend. He has to accept what he has now, physically and emotionally. He finds a volleyball in a FedEx box. He administers his blood onto the ball. It becomes Wilson. Wilson is his only friend. He never gives up. When he couldn’t get the coconuts open at first, he didn’t give up. It was up to his spirit to up give up. If he lost his ambition to live, he probably would've died. Last of all, survival is easy, living is not. Survival is your basic instinct, it’s how you cope with your survival that counts. It all comes back