Hatchet By Gary Paulsen Quotes

Brian Robeson in Hatchet is just a normal thirteen year old child who is living a difficult life. His parents are divorced and he has to split time between his mom and his dad. Brian is just visiting his dad up in Canada when the worst thing ever happens. The pilot has a heart attack while flying the plane. Luckily the pilot taught Brian a little about flying before he died. Brian has to just keep moving on with his life which is the theme in this book. He has to keep moving forward in many cases from the crash, learning how to survive, and natural causes, then getting used to life again.

Have you ever been stranded in the middle of nowhere with no humanity for miles? In the book, Hatchet, the main character has crash landed in the Canadian wilderness. He survives for 54 days in the woods. He had some ups and downs, but he learned from his mistakes. During his survival in the woods, he found out how to hunt fool birds and he learned that his hatchet ,his mother gave him, could tear through the aluminum plane.

The revolutionary war started in 1775 between United States Of America and Great Britain. One family is caught in the middle of the war. In the book Time Enough For Drums written by Ann Rinaldi. John Reid is one of the character's tutor and is loving,brave and cruel. John Reid Has risked his life every time he stepped into enemy territory and spied for Washington as an American spy.

In chapter 14, “At one point, a skunk that steals Brian's turtle's eggs sprays him. The spray blinded him for two hours and affected Brain to be more prepared in case he is debilitated in the future. " This part tells us you have to learn from

Many people in the army feel guilty. They regret all the murders. They see the people they killed everywhere. In their dreams, outside, shadows, they are forever haunted with the faces of the dead. Christopher Lane, a boy with a broken background, is haunted by the killed. After accidentally murdering Mortimer Genever, (vowing to get his revenge) his twin brother Ernest runs away. Showing great determination, hopefulness, and honesty, Chris tracks Ernest down, to apologize for the mistaken murder.

Do you think you would survive by yourself in the middle of the woods for 54 days? The question that I asked you is because of the novel Hatchet and this novel is written by Gary Paulsen. Out of all of the things in the story that stood out to me was the AHA moments because I think they help brian the most. The two biggest AHA moments was when he had to put his food up higher and that he can't be lazy.

Have you ever read the story “the fight” by Adam Bagdasarian? If you have you definitely know that Adam is way over confident. He thinks he is so tough but he really isn’t, he is super cocky, and he is very unobservant. Adam is definitely way overconifent.

Brian's thoughts are significant because we can see that the Hatchet is what keeps him carrying on and not giving up. The hatchet was a sign of protection and it is significant because it is the thing that gives him a sense of protection. The bear had put a little fear into Brian though “he thought of the bear, thought of thought of Bigfoot and every monster he had ever seen in every fright movies he had ever watched and his heart hammered in his throat” (Paulsen 30). The reader can see that Brian is scared because he is all alone in the pitch black wilderness with animals and other creatures around him.

Howard should not have gotten a lobotomy because there was nothing wrong with him, he was just being mistreated. He was punished for things he didn’t do, his step-mother picked favorites with the other kids, and he was abused by his parents. So a lobotomy was an extreme measure in his case for the things he did and didn’t do.

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.

The desire for power stems from lack of it, the need for power leads to attempts to have authority over everyone in his sight. Billy Dent thrives on dominance over others, like Jasper and G. William Tanner. Craving power over people is a trait often associated with the morally corrupt, and there is no character in the novel with more limited morals than William Cornelius Dent. His need for negative influence makes him weak because of his reliance on it. Billy Dent is the weakest character in I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga, because he relies on control, he is paranoid, and he can not resist the death he causes, which was his downfall and will be again.

A person etched in history once said,”It only takes a second to make a choice, yet the choice made in that second, can have consequences that last for a lifetime.” In Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the reader learns that every choice you make has impacting consequences. The main character, Paul, struggles to remember his not-so-perfect past and the reason for impaired vision. Along the way, Paul has to confront his fear of his older brother, Erik, whose choices have impacted Paul for his entire life. Through Erik’s choices and the consequences of his choices, Paul is neglected, bullied, misunderstood, and feels loss, but learns to speak up.

It does not matter how many times life knocks someone down, it matters whether or not they recover. As Winston Churchill once announced, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Life may cause numerous troubles, although, overcoming inadequate decisions can correct your fate. The Other Wes Moore, written by Wes Moore, is an exquisite example of how one poor decision does not need to determine one’s fate, and an individual has the power to metamorphose their fate. In addition, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a superior illustration of how confronting one’s mistakes and choosing to rectify them. The Other Wes Moore and The Scarlet Letter both portray the theme rising above challenges with the use of literary devices.

In the harsh climate of the Ozarks where the story is set in Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone, heavy outerwear is needed in order to survive and be comfortable. The protagonist Ree opposes the elements with her unusual way of dressing, particularly with dresses and her grandmother’s coat.

William Golding contends in his novel “Lord of the flies” that the dangers of evil which lurk inside all of us savagery are through the character Roger. When one considers the word savagery, specifically within the frame of william golding’s novel, savagery comes as a result of freedom and no consequences. In the novel when Roger gets stuck on the island he isn’t certainly evil in fact he is a very shy kid . Although as the story progresses we see him descending into it evilness and savagery. We see that when Roger is walking on the beach with mauris after kicking the kids sandcastle, “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed threw it at henry….threw it to miss.”(Chapter 4) This was a sign of savagery growing inside of him. He wanted to hit