Book Report On Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

(Intro) Introduce Topic: However, in Gary Paulsen’s novel, Hatchet he is 13 year old and he got in a plane wreck. While he was in the plane wreck he was flying to go see his dad.

How would you deal with living in a community in isolation, feeling lost with those around you, and having your whole life changed with one drop of blood? FOUR by Veronica Roth displays all this with a story of a young man named Tobias Eaton. This book demonstrates the drama and strategy which keeps readers involved. From being placed in one environment from birth and choosing something precisely different, readers can see what Tobias had to go through. The main elements of this book are conflict, style, and mood.

Miguel Leon-Portilla author of Broken Spears- The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, tells the story of the Spanish conquest over the Aztecs from the Aztec point of view. It is more familiar in history that the Spanish led by Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztecs with a powerful army and established an easy victory all while having intentions to gain power and greed. However, Leon-Portilla focuses on the Aztec Empire and their story. Leon-Portilla does a great job giving readers the real occurrences and events from Aztec members. This paper argues that history must be told from all sides. It is more common to hear about the Spanish conquest

At a young age many of us are faced with problems that we don’t understand. Whether its problems with family, friends or ourselves; we have some difficulties overcoming them. “Hole in My Life” by Jack Gantos is about Jack in his younger years wanting to write but also wanted to make money. He chose the money over his career and got himself into serious trouble. “My Friend Dahmer” by Derf Backderf is about a young boy, named Jeffrey Dahmer, who had trouble fitting it and making friends. With no one to turn to his dark twisted fantasies consumed him and made him do things he later on paid the price for. These two books share many similarities and many differences however they both portray the consequences

Betrayal hits the most not when by a friend, but by a loved one. In the novel, Flight, by Sherman Alexie, a half Native-American half Irish teen calling himself Zits, struggles with moving from abusive foster home to the next while in the constant search for a real family, real parents. In the act of crime, Zits is shot which transports him into a cycle of different bodies portraying different themes that majorly affects zits life and understanding of the world. The scene in which Zits meets a boy named Justice develops the theme of betrayal by portraying Justice, who seems like a very wise, trustworthy friend, but ends up betraying Zits which changes his view of the world forever.

The Europeans had begun conquering the land the natives. An example is the Spanish, Cortes and his followers had taken land in Mexico. They Spaniards and massacred Aztec as they left Tenochtitlin according to Crossroads and Cultures (563). The book, Broken Spears, provided real accounts of the Spanish conquering through Mexico. Within the book, mentioned was the Spanish attacking villages when they were most vulnerable (ex sleeping, or traditional celebrations). This had changed the America’s peaceful societies into ones that fear for their lives. The accounts mentioned in the book stated that, “They attacked the man who was drumming and cut off his arms. Then they cut off his head, and it rolled across the floor” (pg 67). This type of unjustifiable murders will occur for a long period of time. This type of brutal killings happened throughout America’s by the European’s changing the way of life for the natives.

In the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, a thirteen year old boy named Brian is flying in a plane to visit his father, when the pilot has a heart attack and the plane crashes. Brian survives the crash and is forced to live in the wilderness of the Canadian forest. Throughout this book, the author, Gary Paulsen, shows time and time again that no matter how rough things get, never give up. “He ripped at it until it released… somehow he pulled himself out” (29). This is an example from the beginning of the story from when Brian crash landed in a lake and tore himself out.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines grit as; “firmness of mind or spirit: unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger.” (1) Throughout the whole story of Gary Pulse’s book, “Hatchet”, Brian Roberson, the main character shows grit when his life is transformed in an adventure where he always demonstrates determination, he is up to challenge, never gives up even when things go wrong. Brian constantly approaches every problem he faces with thoughtful mind and remaining in calm. After being stranded in the wilderness of Canadian Woods, Brian needs to fight for his survival, at the beginning; it started as a result of his instincts but as the story evolves he realizes the possibilities of him being rescued decrease each passing day: “…Not hope that he would be rescued-that was gone. But hope in his knowledge.

The book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and the article “Juvenile Justice Program Teaches Boy's Life Lessons and Accountability” by Dallas Morning News share a common theme of positive thinking, initiation into manhood and man vs. nature. The theme I am focusing on is positive thinking. In paulsen’s book “Hatchet,” Brian has to have positive thoughts to keep his hope that someone will rescue him. In the article by Dallas Morning News “Juvenile Justice Program Teaches Boy's Life Lessons and Accountability,” George Ashford is the judge of a court called the DMC (Diversion Male Court). He helps kids, who have done bad cramps, change their ways into good with positive thinking.

The book by Jared Diamond “Guns, Germs and Steel” outlines a brief history, of how countries and groups of people became more prosperous and powerful through history. The book is focused on Diamond’s theory, of “Guns, Germs and Steel”; he argues that guns, germs and steel are the three main reasons for different countries rise to power. That being said the theory also places a tremendous amount of weight on the geographical attributes that certain groups of people had at their disposal, which allow for technological advances. Through this concept, Diamond in his theory attempts to demonstrate that prosperous groups of people through out history is not based on sheer intelligence and the different intellectual levels of people. He then looks at the advantages that different regions where given based initially on their geography. Such that China was unified much earlier in its history then Europe, due to there are less geographic barriers in China than Europe, therefore making communication easier between regions in China. Diamonds theory does go on to explain many of the worlds power differences

My passion for reading began the summer before junior high, the English class I would be taking had a required summer reading list. I had no desire to read “boring books” over the summer and summarize them. Fortunately, my parents made me read the first book and I was hooked. Consequently, I became obsessed (in a positive way) with this unbelievable adventure; “The Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen; transported me to the wilderness that summer and sparked my love for reading. From that moment on reading became my favorite pastime. Literature expanded my world beyond the Rio Grande Valley I visited the “Island of the Blue Dolphins”, and decided I needed dogs with “Where the Red Fern Grows”. I have several beloved books that I never get tired of reading,

In the book Guns, Germs and Steels, Jared Diamond illuminates how and why the human societies of different continents followed widely divergent pathways of development over the past 13,000 years. In the preface of the article, Diamond mainly demonstrates the problem about what cause the huge disparities between Euraisa and the rest of the world. Among the various answers to this complicated question, the easiest one is to attribute these differences, mainly of human technology and culture, to the inherent differences in the minds and bodies of the various peoples. However, Diamond refutes this point of view, and, instead, he puts forward that the roots of inequality in modern world lie in differences among peoples’ environments. To support

Jared Diamond’s nonfiction book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, was a national bestseller and won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. Among the thousands of other nonfiction books published at the time that focused on personal relationships and diets, Diamond’s work captured interest by coming out with a book that intrigued everyone with questions such as, “Why did empires decide to conquer one region over another?” “Why did one civilization flourish in one practice and another civilization in another practice?”, “Why is one culture different from another?” Diamond answers these questions by examining millions years of history, mapping out the migrations of early humans and following humans as they evolve biologically, and the technology, government, and religion of human civilizations that influenced the cultures we see today.

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Hatchet's survival story, then, is two-fold. Because stereotypically boys are less focused on the emotional aspect of things, and boys raised on G.I. Joes as opposed to a game of “house” are less interested in domesticity, the adventure trappings of Hatchet serve to mask what is really happening in the story.