Analysis Of The Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

I am currently reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. So far in the book the main character Brian has been sent to his dad’s for the summer, but his plane crashes along the way. The pilot dies and Brian is left in the Canadian wilderness and must fend for himself. He has made a shelter, a fire and found food.

Have you ever wanted to experience living in the wilderness on your own? Do you think you would last very long? This question is what started the novel of Hatchet, wrote by Gary Paulsen. After being the only one who survived a plane wreck, though there were only two people in the plane, Brian Robeson had to survive until someone could find him. Brian lived in the wilderness for a total of 54 days.

What does it mean to survive? Have you ever imagined yourself in the Canadian wilderness without anything but a hatchet and not knowing how you ended up there? Well, a 13 year old boy named Brian has put his life and soul to finding a way to survive. He survived by using trial and error, by not giving up, and his senses to survive. He doesn't have any food ready, no matches, and no tools besides his hatchet.

Gary Paulsen’s story,”Hatchet” is about a young boy whose plane crashes in the woods close to a lake on the way to see his dad. Before the plane took off, Brian's mom gave him a hatchet to put in his waist belt. When his plane crashed the pilot died but Brian didn't, so Brian is left to survive off of the skills he already knows. He didn't quite know that many, but he had a few gadgets, like the hatchet his mom gave him. When the plane crashed Brian could've easily just killed himself but he didn't, he did not give up trying. Therefore because Brian didn't give up, so, he soon started to survive.. Brian would use his hatchet to build his shelter and get food.The nights that Brian was hungry and wanted to look for food, he got up made a spear

Brian used his hatchet all throughout this book to help him survive. Brian tries to make a fire with the hatchet with the hatchet but fails. Brian first tries by rubbing two sticks together which was a fail. One day an animal was trying to attack him so he throws the hatchet at the animal and misses causing it to hit the wall of the cave. When the hatchet hits the wall it makes sparks and Brian realizes that the sparks can make a fire. So then Brian continues to throw the hatchet at the wall until he makes a fire with the sparks. Brian also used the hatchet to cut a hole into the plane to retrieve the survival pack. Brian couldn't get the survival pack by going in through the door because the plane was too deep into the water. Some things that were included in the survival pack were a sleeping bag, a fork and a knife, a

He carried this lesson throughout the book. This theme is also shown persistently in many parts of the book including the beginning, middle, and end. In the beginning it is shown, when Brian must fly the plane and successfully and accurately land it, and when he must adapt to all the mosquitoes in the forest that are biting him and “bugging” him. Then in the middle of the book, the theme is shown when Brian must adapt to the turtle eggs and when Brian realizes that he has adapted to living in the wilderness and that he is much more skilled than before. Lastly, in the end of the book it is shown when Brian is much more content about his parents’ divorce. Stephen Hawking once said, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”. This strongly relates to Brian in the novel, Hatchet and adds on to the theme,the importance of learning to adapt. All in all, Brian Robeson has showed many signs of change reflecting towards the theme--The Importance of Learning to Adapt--in the award winning book, written by Gary Paulsen,

Hatchet, a survival novel written by American author, Gary Paulsen, is an inspirational story about a thirteen-year-old protagonist named Brian who is stranded in the Canadian wilderness. As Brian encounters numerous challenges throughout the novel, he is forced to adapt to his situation and gains perspective as a result. This character development is evident when Brian decides to stay more motivated as he remembers the advice of his English teacher, Mr Perpich. Brian then realises that self-pity accomplishes nothing, following his painful experience with a porcupine; lastly, after a skunk attack, he learns to be cautious of his property.

The exposition of Hatchet begins with a thirteen year old boy named Brian on his way from New York to Canada on a two person plane to see his father. Brian’s parents recently divorced and Brian is really disheartened about the situation he calls the reason why they broke. Before to long on the plane the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies leaving Brian to land the plane this is when rising action begins . Somehow Brian lands the plane in a crash-landing and only has a few bumps and bruises. With Brian the only one alive he would have to find food and shelter to survive against nature. With only the hatchet his mother gave him, Brian went out and found some berries to eat and made a shelter. Brian learned how to make a spear, fire and learns

This book, called is about a survival story of young boy, Brian. Before I read this, just looking title on its cover, I've thought it may be about a murder case because hatchet is a kind of an ax. So I was a bit frightened and start this book with anxiety. However, the book was about a young boy whose name is Brian Robeson and he had left alone in Canadian wilderness owing to an accident.

The protagonist of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old boy from New York. The setting of this book is the northern Canadian wilderness. At the beginning of the book, Brian is going on a plane from New York to Canada to visit his father after he and Brian’s mother got divorced. The divorce and “The Secret” that Brian’s mother is having an affair plagues Brian for the majority of the book. As the pilot of the plane is flying them over the Canadian wilderness, the pilot has a heart attack and the plane crashes into a large lake. Brian survives, but the plane has sunk in the lake. Brian is injured and has no food. He eventually finds a bunch of strange berries and eats them, but they end up making him sick. He then finds a large amount of raspberries and spots a bear while he is there. He makes a shelter, but in the middle of the night, a porcupine wanders into his shelter and Brian throws his hatchet at it. It shoots quills into his leg and runs off.

An important event in Hatchet was when the pilot died and Brian had to talk to someone and then he had to get the headset and ask for help. Brian was freaking out and he did not want to grab the headset because he would have to touch the dead pilot. After Brian got the headset off the pilot Brian was talking but he did not know he had to press the switch so that he could hear what to do otherwise. After Brian hears the voice of the other man he knows that he has to crash the plane but the debates on if he should crash the plane in the water or in the woodsy area which either way he had a slim chance of living.

Brian Robeson, is the main character in the story the hatchet. Brian is a thirteen year old boy from new York city. Brian took for granted his life until one day he was in a devastating plane crash, that left him stranded alone in the forest. Hatchet, is based solely on brians survival in the forest and how it changed his life forever.

These bad memories made him feel helpless, and he focused on all of the things that were going wrong. However, memories like the one about his accident on his dirt bike, helped him stay healthy. I think that some of the memories Brian had actually helped him, like the

In Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, setting plays a significant role in the story. In the book it says, “ There were wolves, he thought, and bears- other things. In the dark he would be in the open here, just sitting at the bottom of a tree (55).” These quotes show the dangers of being in the forest alone. Since the whole story is about a stranded boy, it would not make sense if it did not take place in the wilderness.

eing all alone on an wilderness for a long period of time isn’t every ones everyday thought. But when you start to think about it, you don’t realize how much of a responsibility is on one person when you have no stores to go to, no house to live in, nothing. In the book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, a thirteen year old boy named Brian Robeson took on a big responsibility by directing a plane onto an island causing him to be the only survivor and being along for fifty-five days. It wasn’t easy for him to adjust to the new lifestyle but he managed to survive with only him and his hatchet that was very special to him. After comparing what Brian knew about the wilderness and the strategies he used to my own, I wouldn’t of survived for fifty five days.