Brian's Plane

The companion book that you are about to read explains in further detail why Brian does certain things, what his thoughts and his intents were, and why every action is significantly important to the story. This companion book will also uncover how Brian changes throughout the story because of the people he meets, and also how he changes the friends he makes.

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 had never had to survive on his own before and much of what he actually did to survive the plane crash was learned by trial and error. For example, Brian had never flown a plane before but

In the beginning of chapter 12 in the book Hatchet, Brian is working on a fish spear. After trying and failing to catch a fish with the spear, he decides that he need a bow because with a bow he could be holding the arrow just above the water so he could simply let the arrow go and he catches a fish. Then he went into the woods looking for the correct wood for a bow. Brian nearly steps on a bird, the bird is important to the story because it seems like easy food for Brian because something that you can nearly step on would be easy to catch. The last thing he does in chapter 12 is hear a plane. When he heard it, he stopped trying to cut the tree limb to make a bow and ran to start up his fire to attract the pilots attention. He did this so

Towards the beginning, of the book, Brian needed to keep his head in the game when the pilot had a heart attack, and he needed to take charge

Brian Robeson, a 13 year old, was just flying over to his Dad’s house when the pilot who he had been sitting next to had a heart attack. He tried to take control of the plane. Luckily, the pilot taught him a little bit on how to fly the plane before he had a heart attack. Brian knew that the plane was going to crash, so he tried to ease it up a little. When he crashed, he realized that he was hundreds of miles away from his mother and where he was supposed to be. He built a shelter and found some berries that he called gut cherries. He gets struck by a tornado and then all of the things he gathered was gone. When he tries to get supplies from the half-sunken airplane in a lagoon near his shelter, his hatchet drops into the lagoon. He goes down

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

This word is an appropriate description because he is by himself in the middle of nowhere with no clue what to do. When the pilot of the plane had a heart attack and dies, Brian experiences “a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, and nearly his heart had stopped” (Passage A). In this opening

The reason that Brian changes is because of his plane crashing which results in him getting stranded in the Canadian forest. The first mental change that Brian undergoes is after his pilot dies and he has to land the plane. He manages to escape crashing in a lake, alive and without serious injuries. This made Brian thankful just to be alive even though he was hurt and in the middle of nowhere. A quote from Brian after the crash, “I’m alive. It could have been different. There could have been death. I could have been done.” Page 38. Brian learns more about himself, he learns his physical and mental limits.

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

The author’s goal is to get the characters to come to life and reach out to the reader so they learn important life lessons through the characters. The main character Kyle learns something that is so realistic, that people can say that they relate to what he is going through.

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)

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.

Greg Heffley is the main character of the book. He tells the story in first person. The illustrator (Jeff Kinney) uses expressions to tell and explain what is going on in the story. For example, if someone was to become angry he would maybe use capital letters if necessary. In the pictures he would draw the character looking angry, he would draw an angry face or if they were to look not to look like that he would draw a normal face on a character.

I almost died on a plane and now they want me to get back on one? I didn’t think I’d have to get back on a plane, I just wanted to be saved. I can’t get on that plane, they can bring me home on a boat or something! I thought to myself.