Season Of Winter Book Reports

I am currently reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. So far in the book the main character Brian has been sent to his dad’s for the summer, but his plane crashes along the way. The pilot dies and Brian is left in the Canadian wilderness and must fend for himself. He has made a shelter, a fire and found food.

‘’Something caught his ear or nose and he began to turn, and had his head half way around, when he saw a wall of fur.’’ (pg.150) The realistic fiction novel, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen describes a boy named Brian who crashed in the canadian woods, who must survive off the grid with only his hatchet and biran. Gary Paulsen uses the setting of the canadian wilderness to demonstrate the growth of the main character mentally, emotionally, and physically. Certain events throughout the plot add to the readers understanding of brian’s true transformation.

This essay will consist of four grueling paragraphs comparing and contrasting "Snow" by David Berman with a personal version of that poem. The second paragraph will compare the two versions of the poems. While the third paragraph will contrast the versions.The last paragraph will sum up the essay. I will compare all aspects of these versions of the poem. I will compare and contrast the characters, setting, plot and many more characteristics. To conclude I will also talk about parts I liked and did not like.

When he walked in to the office, the councilor, Caleb, greeted him and asked him to sit. Caleb was a seven foot tall old retired policemen who went blind a few years back. When Brian sat down, Caleb wanted to know about him. Caleb heard of him as “The boy who lived in the woods”. So Brian told Caleb about himself and the wilderness. Once Brian told Caleb about nature and how it was self defense about the fight, Caleb agreed that there was nothing wrong with him, but wanted Brian to come everyday so that he could tell him more about the wilderness. Brian agreed and came

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

This is a summary of the book “Touching Spirit Bear” By: Ben Mikaelsen. It’s a fictional book that takes place in Minneapolis

Cole Matthews asks readers, “’Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough?’” and many young adults do. Young adults will relate to the characters in Touching Spirit Bear. “Touching Spirit Bear” is a young adult novel written by Ben Mikaelsen. It is about a teenager named Cole who, instead of going to prison for beating someone up, does a program called ‘Circle Justice’ where he is sent to a remote Alaskan island to heal. When he gets to the island he tries to escape, and attacks a bear, which almost kills him. After recovering in the hospital, he goes back to the island and tries again, this time with a willingness to change. While he’s there, he learns about himself, nature, and gains a new appreciation for life and for himself. He learns to be a better person, and forgive himself, and he realizes to fully heal he needs to help Peter, the person he beat up, heal too. Peter and Cole heal together, and eventually become friends. Touching Spirit Bear is a compelling piece of young adult fiction that will do well on the shelves, and should be published. It will do well because it is relatable, it is well written, and it fulfils a need in the genre for realistic fiction in young adult literature.

The winter is surely when the novella’s tone goes downhill. As the nights grow longer, and the days grow colder, the mood of this book darkens . “ The sky is an empty hopeless gray and gives the impression that this is its eternal shade. Winter’s occupation seems to have conquered, overrun and destroyed everything…” This quote shows the change in mood that winter has brought.

Jersey Boys on Broadway played Friday August 22nd at 8 Pm, and performed at the August Wilson Theater in New York. The main characters consisted of Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli, Richard H. Blake as Tommy DeVito, Quinn VanAntwerp as Bob Gaudio and Michael Lomenda as Nick Massi. Jersey Boys is a musical memoir of the 1960’s rock and roll group, The Four Seasons. Through the progression of the play, the audience is taken on a journey as each member of the group narrates a particular development emphasizing how the Four Seasons came to be. In the first Act, Tommy DeVito walks out on stage and begins to tell the audience about the development of the band. At first, the group started out as starting out as "The Variety Trio" along with his brother, Nick DeVito and friend Nick Massi. At that time, Tommy discovered a confused teenager, Frankie Castelluccio, and took him under his wing, teaching him everything he knows about music. With Nick DeVito in prison, the band struggled to gain any form of success, they changed their names multiple times until Bob Gaudio, singer and songwriter came along uniting the lost group (Playbill: Jersey Boys).

A Bear Named Trouble, by Marion Dane Bauer, was published in 2005. It contains 116 pages and is a realistic fiction novel.

Wintergirls is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. It follows the story of Lia, an eighteen year old girl dealing with anorexia nervosa.

Brian was a 13 year old boy who’s plane crashed in the woods in Canada. It was fall and no one was around to help him. He was left to try to survive. He built a shelter to live in. He constantly had fires going to keep himself warm. He had some survival stuff such as cooking pots, a hunting knife, forks, spoons, a first aid kit, a cap, fishing line, lures, hooks, sinkers and packets of dry food. Brian learned warning signs such as when it was getting cold. He also got warnings that something wasn’t right. One instance of that was when Brian’s rifle stopped working. The warning he got was when he felt a touch on his cheek. That resulted in him learning how to make bows and arrows. He hunted various animals such as rabbits, deer, and mule. To keep wolves away, Brian marked his territory. Living in the woods gave Brian a lot of work to do. Such as when he had to fix his shelter after a bear came to steal some of his food. He had a skunk living next to him who sprayed the bear away. To get food, Brian had to hunt and kill animals. Winter came and Brian’s cloths were ruined. Brian was forced to hint in the snow. It got so cold that when he spit, the salvia bounced on the ground. He celebrated Thanksgiving with ribs from a mule. In the end, he comes to a crude log shelter. Someone was living there. The man, who was living there, took him in and shared some of his food with Brian. Brian is

He then finds a raspberry patch, where he spots a bear. Brian constructs a shelter and in the middle of the night he hears a noise. A porcupine has entered his shelter and Brian throws the hatchet in its direction misses and hits a rock that creates sparks. Brian devastated and hopeless attempts to commit suicide by cutting himself with his hatchet, but survives the attempt and emerges from the experience determined to embrace life and to take an active role in his own fate. "He was not the same. The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. "In measured time, 47 days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and had been born as the new Brian." (Page 122) “That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again." (Page 123)

Brian was stranded in the deep woods all alone. Brian's winter by gary paulsen is a suspenseful fiction novel. i would describe brian as a very independent character because he spent the whole story alone. In order to survive in the wilderness, Brian must learn to adapt to his surroundings and use the natural resources around him One example is learning to avoid the wolves that can kill him easily if they wanted to. Brian best relates to the country song Standing Outside The Fire by Garth Brooks because in the story brian is best made out to be a Strong , Self Reliant, and Determined.

The plot of Wintergirls, by Author Laurie Halse Anderson, is interesting to read because of the realization and the story. I feel as if I can relate to this book, that’s why it’s so interesting. The main character of this book is Lia. Lia is trying to deal with the death of her best-friend Cassie, while also being the thinnest she can possibly be. She’s in and out of treatment, moving from household to household caused her to be haunted by Cassie’s death as her own downward of depression and self-mutilation progresses dangerously.