Book Report On Hatchet

After he crashes, even though he knows things are not going his way he retains a positive attitude and keeps busy. This is a very smart and important move when trying to survive, any doubting will finish you. Brian is very strong mentally because he manages to keep positive after he sees his mother with a man other than his father, his parents divorce, his pilot dies and he gets stranded in the forest. I don’t think most people could cope with all that, I don’t think I could cope well with all that. Not only is he strong mentally but he is also strong physically. After a crash most people would be hurt and discouraged but he is up and moving the next day. He knows to get food, water and a shelter asap. By the third day he had made a proper shelter, a fire for warmth and a fire for signaling, found food and started planning next

At the beginning of the story, Brian could be described as worried Gary Paulsen writes, ‘’Going to die Brian thought going to die’’ on page 26. This quote shows he was so worried that he thought he

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

Brian stays alive because he stays positive and never gives up even when he’s nervous and sad. When Brian was sad, he thought of his teacher and how Mrs.Perpich always said to keep going and stay positive. For example, He never gave up when he had spent weeks building his camp and a tornado came and destroyed the entire house and all things in it, he had his fish spears, bow and arrows, his bed which took hours to make and his walls were all lost. Also, when he drops the hatchet in the lake trying to get the backpack out the plane he keeps trying to get it even when he feels stupid for dropping it.

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

In the novel Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen, the main character Brian is flying to his dad’s house and suddenly the pilot has a heart attack. Brian didn’t know how to fly the plane or didn’t know where he was going, but the plane crashed. Brian was stranded in the middle of nowhere. While he is stranded he displays quite a few character traits to the reader. The three that he shows the most I think is committed, courageous, and hard-working. These are the traits that Brian possesses in the novel and help him survive. There is many evidence to back up these traits that I choose for Brian.

As they flew over the Canadian Wilderness, the worst thing that could possibly happen to the pilot, happened. “He stopped as a fresh spasm of pain hit him. Even Brian could see how bad it was--the pain drove the pilot back into the seat, back and down.” (page 10). This was the start of the symptoms for a heart attack, the pilot was having a heart attack. All Brian knew about the plane he was in was a brief lesson from the pilot and what he had read in books. “He was flying but did not where, had no idea where he was going. He looked at the dashboard of the plane, studied the dials and hoped to get some help, hoped to find a compass, but it was all so confusing, a jumble of numbers and lights.” (page 16). Once he had the plane in control, he had to use his knowledge to land. As a result of the heart attack, this was the start of the longest 54 days of his life, he was all alone

Brian was put some really interesting trials in nature and realized things from his past life to help him through it all. Just like when he was depressed and hungry, that food was everything in nature. Chapter 14 staded “ Food is all. Food was simply everything. All things in in the woods from insects to fish to bears, we're always, always looking for food- it was the great, single driven, influence in nature. To eat. All must eat.” This is an important aha moment because he figured out that the main drive for all things in to survive in nature, and that he would have to find food to survive. This also changed things because layer in the novel he used the scraps from the other fish as bait to catch other fish. Also that he can hunt other animals such as the foolbirds,

The last survival strategy that Brian used in this book was thinking positively. One way he uses thinking positively is he uses it to never give up. Brian would always push himself to the limits and never give up, all the while thinking that he was going to get home. Another way Brian uses the survival strategy of positive thinking is that he hoped for the best. Like I said before he would always hope to get home, he would always hope that the search planes would come and find him, and that's what drove him to actually do things. Lastly, Brian used the survival strategy of thinking positively by looking at things a different way. Brian would always analyze things from all different angles, and all different

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.

When Brian was stranded in the wilderness, he was very scared. For example, he did not have any food or clean water. One reason he was scared was when he went into the woods to find food he ran into a bear, he walked away very slowly

Brian struggles with many challenges throughout the book, but overcomes them all. One of the obstacles he overcomes is the swarms of ravenous insects that come out at sunset and sunrise. To show how excruciatingly painful the bugs were, the narrator states, “...and with the heat came clouds of insects-thick,swarming hordes of mosquitoes that flocked to his body,

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 decides to make a raft and get the survival pack in the plane, and he finally succeed. He had got sleeping bag, cook set, butane lighters, an aid-kit, fishing kit, and even a .22 rifle. Brian felt richness and he was no fear of everything. Also, there was a lot of freeze-dried food, and an Emergency Transmitter. Brian used it, and fortunately he got rescued after a 54days-survival by a pilot who heard Brian's Emergency

After Brian managed to make fire, he was fascinated by the scene of the fire. He kept it on feeding it with dry leaves and wood till he got very hot. Brian needed more wood for the night, so he brought the pine trees he cut few days ago. When he started the fire at night, mosquitos began to escape because if the smoke. Brian could make a signal of fire to get attention. His need for wood made him make many wood trips to get raspberries. His leg got tired and loosened that he fell asleep. He could not sleep well as he had to get ip at night because the fire burned down and he was lucky to find the bottom glowing and he could keep the fire on. Outside the door was too dark to see the source