Hatchet Gary Paulsen Quotes

What does it mean to survive? Have you ever imagined yourself in the Canadian wilderness without anything but a hatchet and not knowing how you ended up there? Well, a 13 year old boy named Brian has put his life and soul to finding a way to survive. He survived by using trial and error, by not giving up, and his senses to survive. He doesn't have any food ready, no matches, and no tools besides his hatchet.

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

The author, Gary Paulsen, uses at least 3 literary techniques in his novel Hatchet: repetition, imagery, and personification.

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

Brian landed in the Canadian wilderness with no food. “I’m hungry and i'd trade everything I have for a hamburger.”(47) The book talks about him finally getting cherries by following birds. Later he decides to hunt for more wholesome food. He found a bird that was easy to hunt because of it's stupidity. he also fished with tools he crafted. He could have stopped at the berries but he went the extra mile to hunt for birds & fish.

Jean Bressler believes Hatchet written by Gary Paulsen is an excellent book because the readers can relate to the protagonist having to adapt and survive. The character from hatchet named Brian Robinson is put into an epidemic and has to consider every choice he makes because his life depends on it. The accomplishments to improve his environment leads his hope of continued survival. Readers observe the maturity process of a thirteen year old boy. As Jean Bressler says “Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet is a good vehicle for middle/junior high students to observe the maturity process and learn the importance of decision making skills that they can apply to their own environments.” Bressler notices in the beginning of the book “[the mother] keeps him dependent

In the book, Hatchet, Brian had to adapt to the wilderness around him. Through this process he changed because he was more aware of how nature was working, how he learned how to hunt through this process, and how he became thinner because his food source was not as abundant. When he was living in the Canadian wilderness, Brian noticed how the fish moved and what shape the foolbirds were. In this way, he was more aware of his surroundings. Brian had to find a way to get food and hunt with the right tools. When he noticed what shape the foolbirds were, he used that to get them for food. He did not get as much food as he did when he was living in civilization. Therefore, his lack in food meant he got thinner and lost 17% of his body weight. Brian

Have you ever been stranded by yourself in the wild? Well in the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Brian got stranded. Brian couldn't have done it if he didn't have food. I think the two most important Ah Ha moment is when the figured out which way his father was.

When Brian crashed into the Canadian wilderness, he wasn’t used to the acts of nature, but towards the time that Brian was rescued, he was used to the Canadian wilderness. Here are three reasons that support this idea. First, in Brian’s first days of survival, he wasn’t adapted to the enormous swarms of mosquitos that live in the wilderness, but when Brian’s days of life or death were nearly over, he barely even knew that they were there. Next, when Brian first started to look for food, he found berries that he called “gut cherries” and when he ate them, Brain wasn’t used to the fact that the berries would make sick. Ever since, Brian learned to avoid the “gut cherries.” Finally, in Brian’s first days of hunting, Brain wasn’t used to the smell and the appearance of the insides of animals when he cut them, which made Brain nearly sick. Ever since, he didn’t care about the smell and appearance of

Chris though his journey was often very rude and disrespectful towards people, and the government. An example of his rudeness was when Chris left Franz. Franz is a character who lost his family in a car crash, he went through a lough of greff and suffering, and a large hole was missing in his heart. After spending roughly a month with Chris, Franz, began to deeply care for Chris. When Chris left Franz for his trip to alaska Franz told Chris, ““when i'm gone, my family will be finished, gone forever.

Thinking nothing of it, Brian continues to daze out the window and look at the scenery they are flying over. The pains increasingly get worse and the pilot begins to show signs that he is in great pain. Eventually, the pilot makes an attempt to radio for help, but fails as he has a heart attack and falls back in his seat. Brian sits in shock for some time before realizing he has to come up with a solution. He makes the decision to try and land the plane in a lake as it runs out of fuel. Eventually the plane begins to go down, and he barely makes it to the lake which, in time, will become his camp. Suffering only minor injuries from the crash , Brian makes it to shore. The first few days he was relying heavily on the hope that he would be rescued within a few days. As time went on, his hopes of being found anytime soon slowly diminished. At first, he struggled to find food and make a shelter. Things came slow for him, but he was always learning something new. As time goes on, his mindset changes, and he learns how to hunt fish, find good firewood, and make fires. He creates a spear for jabbing fish, a bow to hunt with, and a wall of sticks and logs intertwined for walls of a shelter. With his camp looking well, he goes into a daily routine of getting firewood in the mornings, picking berries, and catching fish to eat for his outrageous hunger. Once, while bringing back firewood from a

Manfred’s turning point of his persecution, as he realises, after his awful act, the evil of what he has done to his daughter he then begs for forgiveness ‘Forgive thee! Murderous monster!’ (Walpole 100). Even though Manfred has killed Matilda, she was still very respectful and loyal to her father and she always forgave him no matter how he mistreated her ‘Stop, stop thy impious hand, cried Matilda; it is my father!’ (Walpole 99)

This quote supports my answer because it proves that finding food is an important part for a survival plan. Another example, that Timothy catching fish is an important part of a survival plan is because on www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/How-to-survive-on-a-desert-island/ states, “ Water is crucial to life. After only a few days without water you will die.” This quote supports my answer because it talks about if you did not have water (food) then you would, after a couple of days you would die. These are all examples of how Timothy’s plan for catching fish is the right thing to do for a survival

The role humans have in the food chain is determined by the choices we make. This is one of the themes in George Watsky's "leopards and Horseshoes". This poems is about many things one of the major themes is embracing your contradictions and making choices that benefit life this essay will focus on the poetic elements in this poem that compliment this theme. This poem uses elements of short lines, rhymes, and personification to prove you should embrace your contradictions and that humans affect the food chain not only with what we eat but the way we live.