Hatchet Quotes

In Lord of the Files, has one character that seems to be the main character in the story, but not popular in the story because Piggy is not against the people and Piggy don’t have the confidence to share a comment to a group. Because when Piggy want to share a comment, the other boy in a group ignored Piggy’s comment. And not only about the comment, but almost everything about Piggy or Piggy never in sight of everyone. But in The Lord of the Files Ralph and Piggy are friends until in Chapter1 Ralph and Piggy met before at the beach on the island and talk together about this island. Piggy is not very confident in himself and he always gets bullied.

The book Stand Off by Andrew smith is a sequel to his other book Winger. The book starts in the senior year of the main character Ryan Dean West. All Ryan wanted was to relax in his last year at Pine Mountain, but instead he is haunted by his past. His coach expects him to be the new captain and take his dead friends positions on the rugby team as the “Stand Off”, then somehow he gets roomed with a twelve year old names Sam Abernathy, a cooking wiz with extreme claustrophobia. Things gets worse when Ryan starts to only draw N.A.T.E( The Next, Accidental, Terrible, experience) which means he can't even draw for fun anymore. Throughout this book the author tries to show how a teanager would handle death and friends in high school.

First and foremost, the story “Hatchet” has a significant turning point. Brian was flying in a plane to meet his father in the oil fields of Northern Canada when the pilot had a heart attack. Because the pilot had a heart attack, Brian was forced to crash land the plane. Then Brian landed in the wilderness and has to survive with a 2 dimes, a quarter, 2 pennies, a nickel, a hatchet his mother gave him, and himself. Brian will have to make serious choices in order to survive this frantic turning point in “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen. At first Brian thinks that he can't do anything and that he is weak, but later on in the story he figures out that he is his most important asset and that encourages him to survive this tragic event.

Yes, Bone has tried to be an anti-hero with other people like his family, a child, and himself. Bone was being abused at home, which he leaves his mother and step-dad’s house is an anti-hero because he was protecting himself from his step-dad, but selling and doing drugs is the wrong thing. Which, he is on his own, which leads to a life on his own with friends help him be an anti-hero of his loss of innocence.

The Jew’s of Sighet have the unreasonable ability to live within dishonesty. To emphasize, the first sense of dishonesty is when the Jews started saying “the Red Army is advancing with giant strides… Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to.” (Wiesel 8 emphasis added). The Jews know about the situation that they are in yet looking back at it they decide to not do anything about their situation. However, this is still just the start of there ability to live within dishonesty. For example, later when the Germans begin taking over Sighet Elie explains, “German soldiers… Still, our first impression of the Germans were rather reassuring.” (Wiesel 9 emphasis added). Within this, the Jews are not going to do anything about the Germans invading their town, In addition to the Jews capricious ability Is the fact that the Germans

“Our life would be what we made of it, nothing more nothing less.” This quote was said by a character in The Pigman. The Pigman takes place in Staten Island, NY in the mid 1960s. John and Lorraine were two high school students make friends with Mr.Pignati a lonely old man who just lost his wife and was looking for people to talk with. The Puritans would destroy the novel The Pigman due to the law breaking characters, characters leading sinful lives, and poor family values.

The Skeleton Key is a movie about the belief in the magic-centered practice of Hoodoo. The movie’s protagonist, Caroline, starts out as a non-believer of magic. Caroline views the people and culture of New Orleans through an etic lens. For example, when Caroline first arrived at the gas station prior to reaching the mansion, she noticed all of the Hoodoo artifacts and freaked out. She had no idea of what she walked into and wanted to quickly get away. She makes many ethnocentric judgements of the people and culture. During the course of the film, Caroline’s belief starts to change as she experiences many things that she cannot explain with her current belief system. Towards the end of the film she was immersed in the culture of Hoodoo

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

In V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd are depicting a dystopian political universe, with the help of a comic book theme to portray this super-hero-like adventure. Like most comic book stories, we have a villain and a hero. The villain is portrayed to be the British government, which we can determine from quotes such as “The only freedom left to my people is the freedom to starve. The freedom to die, the freedom to live in a world of chaos” (38). From this being said, one could deter that the setting of British society is not ideal at the moment.

Just fight a little longer, my friend It's all worth it in the end But when you got nobody to turn to Just hold on, and I'll find you I'll find you I'll find you Just hold on, and I'll find you Connections:

Part Four: What does this quotation mean? Why is it significant? How does it connect to an emerging theme of the novel? What is the impact of this passage on the reader?

When the news got to me I was angry, furious even, but I couldn’t find it in my heart to hate him. He called me later that day crying, genuinely crying, “I didn’t mean to do this to you. I’m so sorry for all the hurt I gave to you after everything you did for me. You don’t come across girls like you and I hate that I messed that up for my own selfish needs. I’ll always love you and understand that you hate me,” he said. I couldn’t hate him, I knew I was never going to be able to. Would I be able to move on from this? I don’t know, but my goal is to try to live my life and love myself enough to know what’s right for me.

“1 BLEEDING TO DEATH” (64). These four little words were written on the windows of Columbine High School, site of the Columbine Massacre, as a cry for help. The book Columbine by Dave Cullen describes how hundreds of people were trapped inside Columbine High School; tears trickled down the cheeks of American teenagers as the blood of their loved ones spilled onto the floors of their very own school when in fact two of their own were responsible. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were named children of Satan by their very own classmates and the public as a whole when they were no different than any of us. Specifically, Dylan Klebold was a smart, young man with a bright future ahead of him subjected to the pains of an American childhood. Nonetheless, Dylan Klebold was an accomplice to the Columbine Massacre but he was a victim as well who was influenced by the american high school atmosphere, the internet, and his partner Eric Harris to commit acts of sin.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though

“Mr.Sir opened the nozzle and the water flowed out of the tank but did not go in Stanley's canteen.” In Louis Sachar's novel, Holes, Mr.Sir thought stanley was a liar, troublemaker, and was careless, but he is actually nice, helpful, and loving.