Characters Of The Hatchet

It was a book that is a “what if” story based on Gary Paulsen’s other book “The Hatchet.” I liked how he included all things that can happen in the woods. The author also told how cold it got in the winter. The story was so good that I had a hard time putting the book down. There was also one part that sublimity saying that Brian was missing home. It was when Brian was eating his thanksgiving ribs and he was craving a coke and some barbecue sauce. It was in that instance that he was missing home. I also liked how the author described the emotion of not wanting to leave. Brian became so attached to his environment he got

In the book Hatchet A 13 year old boy named Brian got lost in the in the North Woods which is in central Canada. He got lost there when he was going to visit his dad because his parents split up because his mother was cheating on his father. In the first 3 chapters Brian is in a plane with 1 pilot. That one pilot had a heart attack and the plane crashed. In the next 3 chapters Brian looks around the area that the plane crashed and finds some red berries. In the next chapter Brian wakes up in the middle of the night with diarrhea and barfing, he figures out that that reaction was because of those berries. The next night in chapter 8 Brian woke up to a scruffing sound, when he kicked it he realized that it was a porcupine and got stabbed with the porcupines spicks, so he threw his hatchet it when he missed and hit the wall when hundreds of sparks rained down lighting up the cave.

Brian Robeson a 13-year-old boy from New York is the main character of Hatchet by Gary Paulson. The reason Brian is making this plane trip to Canada is because his parents had recently become divorced. His parents’ splitting is the main cause of his instability. At first Brian shows us his fear, frustration and anger. By the end of his experience of being in the wilderness most of those characteristics had changed. Brian does not only learn lessons about survival in the wilderness but life in general.

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

The witch trials in this play were based on actual events that happened in Salem in 1692. Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials. His reasoning for writing it was because everyone was hysteric about the Soviet Union and communism trying to make its way over to the United States. It was like a modern day witch hunt. In the play, Abigail Williams and a group of girls get caught in the woods. They were dancing and doing other things that puritan’s looked down upon. The girls were caught by Reverend Parris, and soon after his daughter became ‘ill’. The girls then started saying that witches came to them and told them to do bad things. They sent innocent people to hang. After studying Arthur Miller’s

Turn your wounds into wisdom-Oprah Winfrey. Imagine having to live in the wild unprepared for over two months. What traits do you think would be useful too have? I believe that any form of man would need courage, creativity, and determination for survival. I will be talking about these traits in relation to the book “Hatchet”.

In the incredibly captivating, and exciting book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen the reader feels like she is experiencing a tough but believable journey. The book’s main character, Brian, gets stuck on a deserted island as a result of a plane crash. This happens when a pilot has a horrific heart attack and Brian, who is not a pilot, has to control the plane by himself. All Brian has on the island is a hatchet his mother gave him, and he has to survive alone while also coping with a family issue. But sometimes in the deepest darkest places of life, lessons are learned about how to be responsible, how to be persistent, and how be creative which are all character traits Brian discovers on his journey.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during colonial America. Throughout the story a group of girls makes accusations a mass of people of practicing witchcraft, one of the worst crimes to commit during that period, and people are being sentenced to hang for denying witchery. In the Crucible there are many lessons that Arthur Miller wants to teach you. To me a lot of the lessons that were taught in this story are important but I feel like one of them is the most important. Arthur Miller demonstrates that one of the lessons implied in the story is people’s character and how it affects those people and others. Examples of character are Giles Corey, John Proctor, Abigail Williams.

At which is the event he receives the Hatchet from his mother, telling him to use it to help his father. During the book you learn his parents are getting a divorce because his mother had an affair. The Hatchet serving as a constant reminder at they fact they Brain had seen it with his own eyes and neither of his parents knew. Salt is added to the wound when you find out his father doesn't know and his mother just suddenly wanted to split. This add a lot of mental pressure on Brain and make survival all they more

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The play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, takes place in the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This time in Salem, witchcraft was suspected of almost everyone in the town. Preserving one’s reputation becomes recurring concept throughout the play. The witchcraft accusations are usually made by people that have a biased view against others, which is why everyone tries to make sure their reputation looks well with the rest of the town. This concept is proven through the characters of John Proctor, Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale. These three characters go to great lengths to protect what the town of Salem thinks of them.

The Crucible is set in the seventeenth- century Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trial. It starts of with Reverend Parris, a man very concerned about his reputation, accusing his orphaned niece Abigail Williams of taking part in witchcraft after his daughter is unconscious after dancing in the woods. A technique used by Parris is characterization, which utilizes the thoughts, actions and dialogues in the construction of characters. Arthur Miller uses characterization to build the character of Reverend Samuel Parris as arrogant , selfish, and deceptive.

“If you take care of your character. Your reputation will take care of itself”(Dwight Lyman Moody). In the book The Crucible, the reader gets to know several characters. As you continue through they find out information on more of the characters but three specific ones stand out because of their actions when trying to save their reputations. John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and Judge Danforth are all involved with trying to fix issues but end up trying to save their reputation because Parris catches the girls dancing in the woods.These three characters John Proctor, Reverend Parris, and Judge Danforth try to save their reputation but end up losing it.

Reverend Parirs -The minister of Salem’s church he is paranoid about his home being invited by a witchcraft and is power hungry

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.