Book Reports On The Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

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

In this chapter, Jared Diamond recalls the greatest collision in modern history. Atahualpa’s, Incan emperor, capture by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro was known as the biggest population shift in modern history. When he Europeans colonized the Americas, Native Americans were nearly wiped out as the biggest population shift occurred. As Diamond depicts the story, he includes eyewitness writings to describe the fight at Cajamarca. The Spaniards were able to win the fight due to weapons, and not to anything other considering they had fewer soldiers than the Incans. Steel swords and chainmail armor played a colossal part in the defeat of Native Americans. The sight of horses confused many Native Americans, as they had never seen one. The

Chapter 1: The starting point from which Diamond answers Yali’s question is 11,000 BC, the beginning of village life, 13,000 years ago. Diamond summarizes human history up to that point, starting with humans’ evolution from monkeys 7 million years ago and the Homo erectus 2.5 million years ago, all restricted to Africa and spread from there. The Great Leap Forward corresponds with the first known inhabitants of Eurasia and Australia/New Guinea. Human colonization of new continents and islands links to the extinction of many species, known as the overkill hypothesis or as some believe the climate hypothesis. Humans continued to spread to lands like Siberia and the Americas via Berlin Strait/Berlin Land Bridge leading to Alaska. Although the conditions of each continent were vastly different, someone could not have guessed that Eurasia would be the one to develop the quickest.

In the beginning of this book Yali asked Jared Diamond a question, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”, and in the epilogue Diamond answers. The answer to Yali’s question is that the geography and environment of Europe was an advantage which they used to dominate and conquer people of New Guinea and other remote areas. The difference in animal and plant domestication, rates of diffusion, and migration due to ecological barriers between continents has contributed to Europe as an advanced continent. Europe also came to dictate the Fertile Crescent and China which were the first to develop the earliest food production. The Fertile Crescent underwent

The book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and the article “Juvenile Justice Program Teaches Boy's Life Lessons and Accountability” by Dallas Morning News share a common theme of positive thinking, initiation into manhood and man vs. nature. The theme I am focusing on is positive thinking. In paulsen’s book “Hatchet,” Brian has to have positive thoughts to keep his hope that someone will rescue him. In the article by Dallas Morning News “Juvenile Justice Program Teaches Boy's Life Lessons and Accountability,” George Ashford is the judge of a court called the DMC (Diversion Male Court). He helps kids, who have done bad cramps, change their ways into good with positive thinking.

In Chapter 4 of The Misfits by S. E. Hinton, a murder occurs that will change the course of the entire book. Johnny, a Greaser who is abused by his father, murdered a member of one of the Soc’s social clubs. He commits this gruesome act to protect his best friend, Ponyboy, from being drowned. Therefore, a question must be posed: Was Johnny’s murder justice, or should he be imprisoned or executed?

The book by Jared Diamond “Guns, Germs and Steel” outlines a brief history, of how countries and groups of people became more prosperous and powerful through history. The book is focused on Diamond’s theory, of “Guns, Germs and Steel”; he argues that guns, germs and steel are the three main reasons for different countries rise to power. That being said the theory also places a tremendous amount of weight on the geographical attributes that certain groups of people had at their disposal, which allow for technological advances. Through this concept, Diamond in his theory attempts to demonstrate that prosperous groups of people through out history is not based on sheer intelligence and the different intellectual levels of people. He then looks at the advantages that different regions where given based initially on their geography. Such that China was unified much earlier in its history then Europe, due to there are less geographic barriers in China than Europe, therefore making communication easier between regions in China. Diamonds theory does go on to explain many of the worlds power differences

Jed and Jethro were having a normal day at Hudson river logging. They were going about the river with their spikes getting logs to float down the river. Jethro was getting all the logs in the middle while Jed was off to his left getting the logs to the left. when all the sudden Jethro's spike slips and he falls in the river. Now Jethro couldn't swim, but luckily he was able to get a hold of the log that he slipped on. He then began floating down the river on the log. He then haves to make a brave jump to a rock, lest he drowned in the river by the rapids up ahead.Gathering up all his courage he makes the leap as soon as he comes close enough... He had made the treacherous jump! Yet he had another obstacle in his path, all the other logs he

Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels on a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies. Brian tries to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing into a lake in the forest. He must learn to survive on his own with nothing but his hatchet—a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane departed.[2] Thirteen-year old Brian Robeson, the sole passenger on a small plane from Hampton, New York to the north woods of Canada, boards the aircraft excited at the notion of flying in a single-engine plane. After the novelty of the experience passes, Brian returns to his thoughts of his parents' recent divorce.

Richard Edward Connell was an American author, who was probably most famous for the short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell started writing at the age of 10 covering baseball games for his father 's paper. By the age of sixteen he had become the editor of the Poughkeepsie News-Press. Connell was a very smart man who studied at Georgetown and Harvard.While at Harvard he was the editorial chairman. Connell 's writing style was usually action-adventure. Some of his works were probably inspired from his time working as a homicide journalist, and serving in World War I. By the time Connell passed away he had published over 300 short stories. Richard Connell was a very unique author from experiences he had through out his life, and so was the writing style that he portrayed.

The killer is going to snip Henry from two blocks down the street and shooting bullets at henry. The police comes to shooting. And goes to the spot where the killer was but the killer new the police was coming so he moved to a different spot. The killer shoot a last bullet in his cartridge and missed Henry. But henry ran to home and waited to see if the

The young visitor not knowing what to do grabbed a bat and hit the drunk man across the back of the head. Grabbing everything in a hurried manner the young boy ran into the vehicle, whenever they pulled out of the driveway the father came out still drunk with a gun. They quickly tried to pull out of the driveway but the mother put the car in drive running the husband over. Not know what to do we grabbed the dead corpse and threw him in the basement. The sister now knowing what the father was holding pointed the vicious weapon into her face. The young man running and screaming at the little sister to put the gun down heard a boom and the little girl's life was

The plane crashed right into the ocean and made a big splash. The Japanese heard the splash and tried to capture Adam and Josh, but they managed to get on a life raft and escape almost getting captured. After about 3 days they arrived back at their ship and were

so as the desert heat enveloped the Khalifa he went on his day since there was a heat wave every day of the year the tribe was used to it as the Khalifa went to knock on the door, he heard a loud scream he was startled because it was a quiet tribe as bob jungiskhans father opened the door the Khalifa asked what was that horrifying scream, Bob plaintively said it was jungiskhan imagining he invented a flying machine.

Robert’s friends call him so he picks up the phone they said “do you want to go with us” Robert is not sure if he wants to go so they ask him to go over and over until he went. Roberts friends picked him up in a RV to go to a place that is a day or two away. When they get there he is shocked to see that they were going on a plane ride they knew how to ride planes but Robert was afraid of high places and plane crashes. Robert tried to leave but his friends told him you need to get over your fears and ride the plane he was so scared that he was about to call the cops but his friends talked him out of it so instead he was going to face his fear and ride on the plane.