A Survivor 's Story By Brian Boyle

I think the comic book was a symbol Brian’s innocence and he was holding onto it until his father made him give it up. The comic book was with him and helped him get through the traumatic experience in the hotel which could be another reason he was so angry to let it go. In addition, Jeanette hints at Brian knowing what they did since he knows that the women make

The first adversity that Brian had to face was flying the plane when the pilot died. Brian overcame this adversity by remaining calm and remembering what the pilot had taught him about flying the plane. He also had to make up a landing plan for where and how he would land the plane. He wanted to land the plane on a lake.

One of the conflicts in the novel is Brian’s inner conflict he has with himself. He had to learn to accept that he’s alone and he has to keep himself alive in the wilderness with a hatchet. The way this conflict was resolved was through Brian’s characterisation. At the beginning of the novel, Brian kept thinking “He had nothing”. He was always those thoughts and he had to wait until a search team comes. As we read, Brian starts to change physically and mentally. “He was not the same now - the Brian that stood and watched the wolves move away and nodded to them was completely changed.” was the part of the

Although these changes were hard, it helped Brian change in a good way, it helped Brian survive this tragic incident. The first change that stood out most to me in Brian would be strength. An excellent example of this would be the quote on chapter 17, after the tornado took everything away. He had to start completely new. In this chapter the quote clearly states, “Tomorrow, he thought, as he lay back in the darkness.

Brian Robeson in Hatchet is just a normal thirteen year old child who is living a difficult life. His parents are divorced and he has to split time between his mom and his dad. Brian is just visiting his dad up in Canada when the worst thing ever happens. The pilot has a heart attack while flying the plane. Luckily the pilot taught Brian a little about flying before he died. Brian has to just keep moving on with his life which is the theme in this book. He has to keep moving forward in many cases from the crash, learning how to survive, and natural causes, then getting used to life again.

Could you imagine? Through all this Brian had to rely on himself and only himself to survive. He used all of the things that he learned in the city to hep him. Overall, the main reason that he survived was because all of the things that he remembered from the past. When Brian remembered why he was in the plane in the first place, it was a really important moment.

Towards the beginning, of the book, Brian needed to keep his head in the game when the pilot had a heart attack, and he needed to take charge

First Brian starts his journey when he leaves his mother to go live with his dad with a hatchet his mother gave him as a gift and suddenly finds himself stranded in a rough rugged canadian wilderness. With just the single hatchet and the clothes on his back. He doesn't realize it then but he was luckily crashed by a lake for water and wildlife in and around the lake.

“Soon under an hour, there were thirty or forty small fish in the enclosure and Brian made a gate by weaving small willows together into a fine mesh and closed them in”,(page 136). Brian uses his survival skills to catch the fish in a corner of a lake and trap so he doesn't have to struggle to hunt. This shows his progress that takes him to manhood. Later in the book, he realizes that the tail of the plane is sticking out of the water. It occurs to him that the survival pack should be in the plane. He ends up finding the survival pack after several tries of holding his breath under water. Before this event, he constructed a shooting arrow to kill animals. He then realizes that he has changed and he's nothing like he was before. He had adopted to the way life was in the forest and had learned how to make things with natural resources. Therefore, Brian learned to appreciate what he had and learned to survive in the wilderness

After a plane flies over Brian without seeing him, he is so crushed he tries committing suicide, by cutting himself with the hatchet. He survives and decides never to try that again. It is significant because he realises he may not be rescued and discovers he can survive on his own.

The reason that Brian changes is because of his plane crashing which results in him getting stranded in the Canadian forest. The first mental change that Brian undergoes is after his pilot dies and he has to land the plane. He manages to escape crashing in a lake, alive and without serious injuries. This made Brian thankful just to be alive even though he was hurt and in the middle of nowhere. A quote from Brian after the crash, “I’m alive. It could have been different. There could have been death. I could have been done.” Page 38. Brian learns more about himself, he learns his physical and mental limits.

He then tries repeatedly to create fire. He eventually does succeed in making fire. He later finds turtle eggs and hesitantly eats them. Later, a plane flies over Brian, but never notices him and Brian loses all hope. He attempts to commit suicide, but ends up surviving the attempt. Brian makes a bow and some arrows and catches a fish. Later that night a skunk enters his shelter and tries to steal his food. He yells at it and it sprays him, leaving him temporarily blinded. He perfects his tools and catches a bird. While he is cleaning the bird in the lake, a moose attacks Brian. In the attack, his ribs and his shoulder were

In chapter 11 Brian dug a hole and put the turtle eggs in it, he also tried to make a fish spear to catch fish in the lake. After that chapter Brian splits the end of the fish spear in half but it still doesn’t work, so he had started to create a bow until he heard a sound like a plane so he lit a bonfire but a it was too late. In chapter 13 Brian was almost blinded by the bow he made because he the bow to tight and it exploded in his face, then he learned and made a good bow and caught a fish with it. In the next chapter Brian was hit with a direct blow in the eye with a skunk so he decided to upgrade his shelter, create a fish trap, and a way to save his food. In chapter 15 Brian found a way to kill a fool bird and then did. In chapter 16 Brian got attacked a mouse until near death, later that day there was a tornado that stole all of his supplies except for his

Brian feels it’s not important that he doesn’t know where he is because he needs food, water, shelter, and he doesn’t know how to get home, but if they don’t know where he is they have to search for him because he went off course.

When he woke up it wasn’t as bad as he thought it was. Brian survived a week of rain non stop rain just kept on raining.