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Which of the three factors had the greatest impact on Chuck Noles Fate/ability to survive? First of all, I think this is two questions in itself. Chuck Noles Fate is determined by chance while his ability to survive is determined by his heredity. His intelligence ends up being one of the key tools in surviving the four and a half years on a desolate island. Chance also plays an important role because without chance he wouldn’t have survived for as long. Once of the most important times chance shows itself is when Mr. Noles unbuckled his seat belt in the plane and stood up. Why you would do this while experiencing extreme turbulence is beyond me but it actually saves the man from extinction. On the other hand we see the copilot try to use the same trick but we see later that Chuck takes the man size 9 ½ shoe and tries to fit his size 10 in it. Cutting off the toes seems to work for him though. Another example of chance is how the boxes ended up on the island and not sinking to the bottom or