He puts on the dead man s shoes. To the outside world he has died. They will bury him in a box, but to God he is very much alive. His first attempt to escape the island on his rubber lifeboat represents man s attempts to get off his isolated island by his own strength. Waves of fear pound him and brutally beat him back, keeping him in place.
Fear is the atmosphere of the fallen world.
Only after much pain and failure does he open the boxes. Sometimes our greatest afflictions can be the very thing God uses to open our hearts to Him. Up to this point, Chuck Nolan has been an unopened box. Now he opens the Fed Ex boxes and, in so doing, finds things that will give him life. Most significant of all is the volleyball.