Book Report Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

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.

Brian Robinson from “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen, is a thirteen-year old boy from New York City. This novel essentially deals with the matter of man and nature alongside, of self-cognizant. On his way to visit his father, his plane crashes leaving him alone in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. The story mainly progresses through Brian's experiences existing alone in the wilderness and the struggle to survive with nothing but a hatchet his mother gave him as a gift. Thus, he is primarily the only paramount character. Throughout his survival in the woods, Brian develops notion of how things work for survival and alters his thoughts and action based on the environment he is positioned. The character demonstrates several psychological stages he undergoes to survive based on his prior knowledge and contemporary challenges.

He uses the shelter to protect him from the rain and some animals. After he builds the shelter, Brian uses his hatchet to make spears and arrows. He takes branches and sharpens the tip of them to make arrows and spears. "He had worked on the fish spear until it had become more then just a tool. He shoots the arrows at birds and throws the spears at fish. "I know about fire; I know I need fire." Brian says this the second night he's there. Brian needs a fire because he needs it for heat, to cook food and to keep animals away. Brian makes the fire with his hatchet and a rock. First, he figures out that he needs some paper so he takes his 20-dollar bill and tries to burn it. Unfortunately, the bill just burns right out and leaves him with no fire. After that, he takes his hatchet and cuts small pieces of bark. Then he piles them up under twigs. Then he takes his hatchet and hits a rock with a great blow and sparks catch the bark on fire. He hits another blow and the sparks catch the twigs on fire. Therefore, he has a fire. This process shows that whatever Brian sets his mind to he can do it. About two months later Brian went to the bottom of the lake to see if there was anything useful in the plane. He brought up a survival package. There were many useful things in there like bandages and matches. Couple months later, just before winter was going to hit a man shows up in a plane. The guy in the plane was the man Brian had talked

The young boys are all alone and scared on the uninhabited island. They begin to get hungry, which means they will need to hunt. Jack gathers his group of followers and heads into the forest with weapons. They come across a sow who is

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.

“I'm hungry and i'd trade everything I have for a hamburger.”(47) Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is an exciting story about a character named Brian Robeson who is left in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a hatchet and must survive until help comes. Hatchet supports my belief that hard work helps overcome obstacles.

When Jack leaves to start his own tribe, he takes many of the littleuns with him. But they are not ready to be surviving on their own and having to hunt food themselves. They are stuck at square 1: being afraid of the hunting spears. But Jack persuades his tribe into believing that this is the only way to survive and that civilization has no power in these circumstances. "These spears are made of wood don't be silly" Jack sneered at him. "Frightened?"

The smallest bit of knowledge can greatly influence your chance of survival. This is shown in hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. In Hatchet Brian is a kid who is stranded in the Canadian Wilderness with nothing but a hatchet. Brian has to learn how to make tools, find food, and make a suitable shelter. Brain slowly learns and progresses until he is on top of the food chain. Through the novel, Brian slowly gets stronger physically and mentally, as he rises through the foodchain.

They put them in the desert down in Arizona or someplace and they had to live for a week. They had to find food and water for a week. For water they had made a sheet of plastic into a dew-gathering device...´´ This quote shows how much he has changed through the heartbreaking time in the wilderness. In the beginning he was to scared to do anything and was not trying new things so he started to panic, and as he progressed through his time there he started to get curious and found all kinds of ways to survive. However he learns from his mistakes and he learns that if you are not curious, then it will have deadly consequences. If he did not relize that he needed to do something and did not find those berries when he did, there was going to be an increasing chance that he would not have been able to survive or live as long as he did. Although he made bad choices in the past, he learned from them and made the smart choice to not hide behind walls because he has changed from when he first got

Do you think you would survive by yourself in the middle of the woods for 54 days? The question that I asked you is because of the novel Hatchet and this novel is written by Gary Paulsen. Out of all of the things in the story that stood out to me was the AHA moments because I think they help brian the most. The two biggest AHA moments was when he had to put his food up higher and that he can't be lazy.

Have you ever been stranded in the wilderness? I know someone who has. He is cunning, resourceful, and also brave. His name is Brian, and he is the main character of Hatchet. The author, Gary Paulson, has written a very good one this time.

Have you ever wondered what you could learn if you needed to survive in the Wild? Well in the book Hatchet, Brian already answered that for himself when he crash landed in the wild and survived in the wild. He shows what he has learned and how he has changed in chapter 11, when he realizes that his hearing and seeing has increased since living in the wild and in chapter 16, when he shows that he has learned to manage his food in order to survive in the wild. And the upcoming paragraphs are about how the things that Brian learned helped him through surviving in the wild.

Do you ever wonder how you would survive in the wilderness all by yourself? Do you think that you would survive with nothing but yourself and a hatchet? After surviving a plane crash on the way to his dads, the main character Brian survived in the Canadian Wilderness for 54 days. Throughout the 54 days, Brain realized a lot of things that would help him survive. Out of all of the things Brain realized, I think that the two most critical aha moments was when he realized that he could make fire by using his hatchet, and when he saw the tail of the plane and realized that there could be some kind of survival pack in there.

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

One thing that Brian did that I would've never thought about doing is on page 124, it says,“He wove long branches in through them to make a truly tight wall and, still not satisfied, he took even thinner branches and wove those into the first weave.” I wouldn’t of had the first clue on how to make a shelter. My dad is all about outdoors but he hasn’t taught me how to do a lot of things on how to survive in the wilderness. And I wouldn’t know the first thing about how to get it to stay up and not fall over or even how to create the structure of the shelter.