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The Hatchet Character Analysis

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If I could change the life of a story character to make it more like Zane’s, I would change Brian’s from “The Hatchet.” I would change his life by putting him in Zane’s situation (even though it is not positive). In “The Hatchet,” Brian is going on a trip to see his father (who was divorced with his mother) in the North Canadian woods. He was going in a two-seater plane. While in the air, the pilot had a fatal heart attack. The plane crashed into a lake, with Brian still in it. Brian was forced to fend for himself in the harsh woods for a couple of months with nothing but a hatchet (hence the title of the book). When a rescue force finally saved him, he had already suffered a tornado, getting rammed by a moose, and getting stuck in the leg

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