Brian's Plane Chapter Summary

When he walked in to the office, the councilor, Caleb, greeted him and asked him to sit. Caleb was a seven foot tall old retired policemen who went blind a few years back. When Brian sat down, Caleb wanted to know about him. Caleb heard of him as “The boy who lived in the woods”. So Brian told Caleb about himself and the wilderness. Once Brian told Caleb about nature and how it was self defense about the fight, Caleb agreed that there was nothing wrong with him, but wanted Brian to come everyday so that he could tell him more about the wilderness. Brian agreed and came

Brian is a particularly charismatic individual. While he depicts vulnerability, frustration, and impatience at the introduction of the novel, his struggle and wisdom in the north woods of Canada revamp his attitude and mindset permanently. Brian had to figure out how to survive on a daily basis, learn quickly and acquire essential survival goods. He had to face new challenges every day such as fishing, making fire and protection. He practices and maintains qualities that are significant not only for forest survival yet also to life as a whole. Throughout the challenges, he enhanced his Mindset, patience, skill, observation, and an embracement for the innate

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

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.

Brian appreciates the nature so much that he volunteered to go into the wilderness and

The final one was when Brian tried to get the survival pack. Because the pack was in the crashed plane, Brian had to make a raft and get close to the plane. After he made a hole on the plane, hardly, he found a survival pack. But he could watch not only the pack put also pilot's corpse. Because it was left under the water, it was more horrible-his flesh was eaten by fish. I had to imagine its view again that I didn't meant to.

Chpt.2- In the beginning of chapter two, Brian is in so much shock that he can’t even comprehend everything that’s happened. Even after Brian is coming out of the shock, he still realizes that there’s nothing he can do. He even states that it feels as if somebody is controlling him (his hands and arms are being lead). He thought of ways to help the pilot. The only thing that popped into his head was C.P.R. but he didn’t know how to do it. Brian then touched the pilot’s chest but felt no breathing, no heartbeat, no pulse, nothing. The plane was still going but it began to hit more and more turbulence as well as dive down more and more. Realizing that looking toward the pilot for help wasn’t an option, Brian had to do something because if he

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,

In the beginning of the story, Brian is given a Hatchet and put on a Cessna 406 Bush plane. He grudgingly gets on. He is on his way to visit his dad since his parents had a divorce. While on the plane the pilot has a heart attack and the plane crashes in the canadian wilderness. All Brian does is complain, and whine. On page 40, in the 3rd paragraph, it says “Luck, he thought. I have luck, I had good luck there. But he knew that was wrong.

Brian faced a turning point in his life when he was stranded in a forest, which led to loneliness and hunger. He had to spend nights “alone and hoped”, “they would come today”. This evidence is stated on page 5. Although, Brian hoped he would be rescued, his loneliness makes him question if and when someone would come to the rescue. “I wish you were here, Perpich. I’m hungry and I’d trade everything I have for a hamburger.” This evidence shows that he was really hungry and would trade everything for food. Hunger and loneliness forced Brian to face challenges he wasn’t prepared to deal with.

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

When the plane crashed Brian did not really realize what had all happened. Brian trying to get out fell on the ground in such aching pain. He knew that he was alone in the middle of nowhere. He also knew that he had to try to get signal which was a fail. He looked for shelter and there it was a cave such thing under a bunch of hard cement and rocks. So that is where he stayed over the time and he ate berries for quite a while and drank from the lake. After all the berries he started to get sick off the berries. The berries turned out to be poisonous berries. After while he made fishing sticks and caught fish for

In Chapter 19 Brian finds the rifle in the plane's survival pack. Surprised by its presence, Brian finds that it seems out of place in the natural environment. Although his life in the wilderness presented many challenges, and daily life presented complications he had not even considered before landing in the woods, he found that self-sufficiency contained a certain appeal and nobility that the rifle negated. The rifle also represents an intrusion of technology onto nature. While Brian had used simple tools such as a bow and arrow and a fish spear to survive in the woods, the rifle was a far more sophisticated piece of weaponry. It indeed had the potential to make his hunting faster and easier, but this benefit did not appeal to Brian. His

He then finds a raspberry patch, where he spots a bear. Brian constructs a shelter and in the middle of the night he hears a noise. A porcupine has entered his shelter and Brian throws the hatchet in its direction misses and hits a rock that creates sparks. Brian devastated and hopeless attempts to commit suicide by cutting himself with his hatchet, but survives the attempt and emerges from the experience determined to embrace life and to take an active role in his own fate. "He was not the same. The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. "In measured time, 47 days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and had been born as the new Brian." (Page 122) “That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again." (Page 123)

They were in Texas that is where they were from and where they lived but Gabe a fifteen year old boy wanted to see the North.He went to attend a boarding school in Canada so that he could be closer to his father.Gabe had a roommate his name was Raymond.Raymond had a bad time trying to fit in so he went to take a plane ride back home and Gabe was on the plane because of a scenic tour.