Brian's Survival: A Character Analysis

Brian and Jeannette have always been a dream team. They have always been there for each other through all the rocky patches. Their relationship is something most siblings want with one another. They defended, protected, and listened to each other, and stood by each other’s side through it all. I think it’s beautiful how they never gave up on one another. It’s like they didn’t want to disappoint each other because they both have been victims of disheartenment. I hope one day I have a relationship, of sorts, that is like theirs. I know I have one’s that are close to what the two siblings have, but not close

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

Sometimes everyone feels like giving up, and the only thing a person can rely on is his will to survive. Giving up is admitting defeat, in every circumstance. In the story by Jack London, To Build a Fire, the main character learns a hard lesson of reality, when he meets his fate. The result came about because of many factors, mainly the man’s lack of psychological perserverance on the journey, as well as the harsh temperature and surroundings. If there was any hope for the man to survive these conditions, it would rely wholey on his persistance and motivation. The man expected his fate after it was too late to change it, weighing all the variables and realizing there was no probable way to escape his prediciment. The man’s fate was

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Readers of all ages, literature lovers, and book fanatics often find conflicts within their own lives just as the characters of the stories they read do. Some are able to find a way to overcome and conquer, while others get stuck behind or can not find a way to beat them. In Jack London’s short story called “To Build a Fire,” the main character conflicts with mother nature, who keeps tearing him down at every possible point. The main character, who is only referred to as the Man, is battling his way alone through the harsh temperatures of the Yukon. On this journey he runs into many obstacles and challenges. The Man does not listen to the advice he is given, leading to his inevitable death at the end. The most notable theme London builds

I chose Brian (the brain) to do my character analysis on. In my opinion Brian was a stud the principal would never have expected Brian to be the one carrying the pot for the criminal. Brian was really funny when he was smoking the pot he had a funny voice. The funniest thing about Brian was that he brought a flair gun to school and it went off in his locker.

When they crashed, Brian couldn’t be lazy like he was in the city. He had to use his wits and knowledge that he knew about the woods. He needed to learn how to cook, make fire, hunt, make tools, and build a

In the text, it says, “Louie saw a discarded apple box nearby. Remembering his boy scout training, he pried a slat from it, fit a stick into a hole in the slat, wound a bootlace around the stick, and began alternately pulling the ends, turning the stick until it began to smoke… The mat whooshed into flames. The men gathered to warm themselves” (173). This statement shows that Louie is a resourceful person, because of how he used what he already knew and made a small fire for not only him, but also the other prisoners to warm themselves with.

In chapter 9 of hatchet by Gary Paulsen Brian attempts to make fire. He starts off by ripping up the $20 bill thinking it would work as kindling, but he was wrong. There were tiny orange sparks, but they died down quickly. Next up, he finds some dried leaves and grass, but the same thing happens. Sparks, then nothing. Brian was left feeling hopeless. Then, he sees some tiny strings of hair-like material coming off of a tree, and gets a good idea. He rubs the hairs in his hand and it creates a fine powder. So, Brian puts them into a little like, attempts to ignite it, and there are more sparks, but not enough to make a full on fire. Then Brian realizes...he needs oxygen! He needs to blow on the fire as soon as he ignited it, so that the flame

Brian was very annoyed by the mosquitoes after he built the fire the mosquitoes stopped coming after him when he came near the fire or the shelter where the smoke eddied and swirled, the repellant could keep the mosquitoes away at anytime and anywhere. Fourthly, a waterproof match would be extremely useful for Brian because it’s easier to feed and it’s waterproof of course. To emphasize, in chapter 9, Brian builds a fire, by chapter 10 he realizes that the fire is hungry, by that he meant the fire needed more wood. In other words, the fire would die out without wood, fortunately, with a waterproof match, Brian wouldn’t need to get wood for the fire to stay alive, he just has to light the match. Furthermore, in the Canadian North woods, it could rain, and with that, the fire would die out. However, since the waterproof match is waterproof, rain wouldn’t make the fire die. Lastly, the chlorine dioxide water purification tablets are very advantageous in this situation because it will purify the lake water. Brian is currently drinking lake water, that water isn’t quite purified, by drinking that water it can cause gastrointestinal and stomach illness like

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

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The Man was strong in his heart and did not give up. He was always trying to survive in the harsh cold weather of fifty below zero. He would get extra branches to maintain his fire when he could. “He worked methodically, even collecting an armful of the larger branches to be used later when the fire gathered strength” (London par. 25).The man was thinking ahead and decided he should just get as much as he can every trip to save time. The Man’s fingers got frozen when his fire got put out by the tree he had no mobility or sense of touch with his hands. He had to make a fire and he decided he would use his mouth. “He picked it up in his teeth and scratched it on his leg. Twenty times he scratched before succeeded in lighting it” (London par. 28). The man had no mobility of his hands so he thought outside the box and fought for his life using his survival instincts. He used his mouth to ignite the match and make the fire. Despite his best efforts, The Man succumbed to the cold weather due to his foolishness of not being

Brian is 28 years old and is a first generation American. Brian’s parents immigrated from El Salvador. Brian married at 19 and four years later divorced. Brian works as a coffee roaster for a local shop and at game store near my home where we recently met. Over the last several months, as I have attended weekly Friday Night game nights, Brian and I have developed some rapport. Brian and I began talking between rounds and after the game night and before long we have developed a friendship. When I told him about the assignment and asked for his help, he joked that I only asked him because he was a “brown” person. While this was not my motivation it certainly opened the door for an interesting conversation.

Monty Python’s Life of Brian is more than just a mere comedy; it is a Biblical, religious, and political satire. Like all Python films, Life of Brian seems to educate the viewer while at the same time providing entertainment. Unfortunately not all of the elements in Life of Brian occurred in real life, which takes away from the validity of the plot. While not everything is accurate, it seems that a majority of the film could be considered genuine. In order to understand an analysis of the film, one must first have a basic sense of the plot.