Brian's Analysis

Finally Brian is here, he is now on the top of the foodchain. Some ways that prove that is how Brian Learns how everything in the wilderness has to eat. Also Brian now has a lighter from his survival pack, Brian can now cook food and make a fire wherever he wants. Most importantly he now has a .22 survival rifle. Hunting and self protection is now easier with his gun.The survival pack brought Brian insane amounts of power over the wilderness.

In the novel Brian tries to keep a good mindset and not think negative. For examples Gray Paulsen quotes:

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

Most kids would think about the “what if’s” instead of about thinking what you need to do. So, all of the aforementioned examples explain why one of Brian’s main character traits is responsibility.

Later, he sees a plane fly in the air and is finally rescued from the wilderness because of that man’s hospitality. In the book The River, The government wants Brian to go back to the wilderness and survive, but he won’t be alone this time because he will have another person with him. The other person’s name is Derek. When they get to the wilderness they are surviving pretty well

Brian seemed to have total control of Roz. Brian seemed to have his own personal issues with dealing with the loss of his wife, taking care of four children by himself, and although the book does not reveal any other issues, it’s quite evident that he had trust issues and insecurities of his own. His behaviors indicate that his violent ways is his way of being in power and control. He would use his grieving as an excuse for his behavior. His non violent actions were just as repetitive, his continued absence at home, no concern for his children, promiscuous behavior, his insensitivity to her needs in her time of illness and his accusations of mistrust were just as heartbreaking for Roz. The series of

Brian starts out scared and full of self-pity but as time went by he realized self-pity would not help him. Brian values self-reliance for it helped him survive. Throughout the book, Brian becomes self-reliant in making a shelter, fire, and finding food. Without self-reliance, Brian would not have survived; he would be to dependent to others to find food and make a shelter and a fire to stay warm. Even once the tornado made Brian start from scratch again he did not give up hope and was able to redo many of the things from before.Though Brian’s choices, I learned to be self-reliant in many thing I do; being a dependent child would make life hard as I grow up.

As it is seen the author has a couple of good examples and meanings in the

Also in Hatchet, Brian has to figure out how to get to the crashed plane, then get on the plane to find the hatchet. Brian shows his ability to make a plan for what he needs to do. For example, Kummerfeldt says, “You have to accept the fact that, as good an outdoors-man or women as you may be, sometimes things happen that precipitate you into a crisis when you least expect it and you’d better be ready to cope with…” For instance, Brian is following Kummerfeldt’s advice by making a

“In the kitchen, he stirred the coals in the old Home Comfort wood range. The coffee in the black percolator on the side of the range was still hot. He had made it by lamplight before going out. He poured a mug of the strong brew and sipped it as he took a heavy cast iron skillet from a hook on the wall and placed it on the range top. He set the coffee down and dropped a tablespoon full of soft butter into the warming skillet and broke two eggs into it, lightly salted them and sipped his coffee until they began to whiten around the edge.”

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.

Igf he would of hrown in that little bit of knowledge and numbers I think he would of hade his auidnce seton reading skaespeare. You have to rember who hes preaching to collage freshman, everyone loves to her facts about themselves and how their brains and bodies work. If he would of thrown in a fact or two about the bebifits of reading his work then tht would have been an A plus speech.

Brian is certain the plane will never come so has to make tools, more fire, and better shelter. Brian also, has to learn how to catch fish and fool birds with his weapons. Brian makes lots of mistakes and learns from them and that's how he stays alive.

d. Which character recently earned an MBA? What was his or her role in the story?

His sister told me the recipe over the phone. Joseph had called her up long distance and gruffly demanded that she rattle off the legendary gravy recipe that their mother used to serve. She did so, and I obediently jotted down every word. The directions seemed simple enough, and I felt confidant that Joseph would