Loss Of Survival In Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

In the book Hatchet when Brian first get fire is when he is asleep and a porcupine comes and Brian throws the hatchet at the porcupine. The thing was Brian missed and sent the hatchet flying at the wall. Then the porcupine sent quills at Brian into his leg. The next morning  Brian looked at the wall and saw sparks marks and then he thought if he hit the wall with the hatchet than he could start fire.  In  Survival by the Numbers Peter said,”What are  priorities – fire first or shelter?”  Peter said that you have to have fire. Brian had to use fire a lot in the book.

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

Traveling to him, the pilot died for a heart attack and the plane crashed down in the Canadian wilderness. This was the start of event and this was how Brian learned to live through a wilderness for fifty-four days. At first, Brian did not know what to do. He just screamed and panicked. I liked the screaming part. It expressed a person’s mentality well. In the wilderness, he learns the way to survive. He ate every food that he could catch like berries, fish, birds, rabbits and eggs. Also he overcame some threats by a bear, a wolf, a skunk, a porcupine and made an arrow, bow, a spear. In other words, he mastered to survive.

Resolutions to conflicts are always the most interesting parts of any fictional story. In the novel, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, city boy Brian crash lands a plane in the Canadian wilderness on the way to visit his father. Alone with only a hatchet his mother has given him, Brian is forced to use it for survival. Faced with many challenges in the wilderness, is Brian able to survive and go home? This novel has many conflicts and they are used to make the story intriguing. Most interesting parts to read in Hatchet is the ways Brian overcame nature’s obstacles and how he developed to his situation and how he was found and went home.

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

is full of interest unlike other survival novels like Robinson Crueso. I was impressed by Brian's inner growth as he struggles to survive in the wilderness. He learned anger and blaming oneself doesn't help anything to be better. Also, he got the ability to think deep and thanking attitude to foods. Unfortunately, the end was so sudden. That's one of my hateful ending-immediate end. That was a miss point of the book. Anyway, in general, I could think of my behavior to emergency with contrasting Brian with

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.

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

The process of survival is a basis laid upon many significant factors and it can become an educational experience in which an individual may learn the skill of independent thinking and will inevitably gain new insights into themselves. These ideas are considered throughout the contemporary novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen in which the protagonist, Brian, undertakes tremendous trials. Through their experiences, the protagonist obtains further knowledge about himself, others, and the world.

Have you ever been camping? Imagine camping camping for over a month with no tent, matches, or people. This is what Brian Robeson had to go through in the thrilling novel Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen. After surviving a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness Brian survives for 54 days. In that time Brian completely changes and adapts to his situation which left him completely different.

In “Into the Wild”, an award winning novel written by Jon Krakaeur tells a true story about a young man named Chris McCandless, who decided to cut off all family and friends by giving all of his life savings to charity, cutting up all his credit cards and ID, and changing his name to Alexander Supertramp. His goal was to become independent and self-reliant. In order to pursue his new life, McCandless set out to the Alaskan wilderness where he could be completely isolated from society. Chris traveled for 112 days, completely alone. He met some people along the way but left before things got too close. Can someone be alone and have no one to talk to for 112 days? Can someone truly want to be completely isolated from everyone and everything for the rest of their life? I’m not sure, but I believe that Chris could. He wanted more than anything, to live the way he wanted to. Chris wanted to be isolated because of the need to be self-reliant, to become independent, and to

In chapter 17 up until the Epilogue of Gary Paulsen’s story “Hatchet” Brian realizes many things that are important to his survival. For example, at the beginning of chapter 17, he realizes that the tornado gave him a gift, the plane. The plane, which had sunken, had a survival package in it filled with food and other supplies which are vital to Brian’s survival. The tornado however, blew part of the plane ashore. Remembering this, Brian has a good night's sleep thinking that he could live off these supplies for a long time.

At one point the wolves lest brian, then came back. Brian also let the fire burn out. He went to bed and woke up with cuts on his arms blood on him and seeing the red blood turning black and drying out. Sheira: It revealed what Brian thought of himself and how he thought he wasn’t weak anymore while he is surviving on his own, he sat back and thought about all the things he has become such as, a survivor by making fire and hunting for food.

First, Brian has been set alone in the forest after the plane crash. Brian somehow believes that he will be rescued out the forest from the plane crash. After hours of being alone in the forest, Brian finds a shelter for himself and stays in the shelter for the night. The next morning Brian begins to teach himself how to make a fire by himself in the forest and searches his surroundings.

However, if he wants to go back home, he has to have a signal to reach people outside know where he is.. Fire is the best choice for the signal. In order to build a fire, people must supply fuel, heat and oxygen, which were three points of the fire triangle. In a forest, dried grass, leaves, and wood are common fuels to burn. Oxygen is around people mostly everywhere. The tricky part of the fire triangle is heat. Bring matches or a lighter is the simplest solution for heat. People can rub two sticks together to build a fire by friction if the matches are wet or the lighter stops flicking. (Survival Training http://livingafield.com