Hatchet is a book by Gary Paulsen. The story takes place in a plane crash, which took place in the middle of a Canadian forest. After the pilot, who was flying the plane, had a heart attack, leaving a kid at the controls. Luckily the kid came out with bruises and scratches. The main character is 13 year old Brian Robeson, Brian’s mother, Brian’s father, and a pilot. Brian had a normal, simple life, but after his parents suffered a divorce, and cheating on each other. He had to stay with his mother in the winter, and father in the summer. After being dropped off at the private, small airport in New York, his mother gave him a present of a hatchet, which will be useful later. He began his flight to, Canada. The flight was a quite, normal flight, …show more content…
At first, brian declined the offer, but after some persuading, Brian took over the controls. The pilot began to explain to Brian how to fly the plane, and how to turn, climb, and descend. The pilot then felt satisfied with Brian’s flying, and took over the controls again. The cockpit again, had a sound of silence, except the loud and roaring engine. And again, Brian is sitting in the right seat, thinking about the divorce. Moments later Brian realised the pilot was feeling qute ill. Suddenly, the pilot was having a heart attack, causing him to shake, and kicked the yoke out of place, causing the plane to turn violently to the left. 13 year old Brian Robeson is left with a dead pilot, and a plane, which he has no idea how to fly. Brian knew that the plane is off course, since the pilot kicked the controls, and made the aircraft turn around. Brian knows he is limited on time, since he knows the plane is burning fuel. He see’s a “L” shaped lake in the distance, and decides to ditch the aircraft in the lake. He later wakes up on the shore of the lake, with bumps, and bruises. His only supplies are, a hatchet, and his cloths on his back. He know that …show more content…
He looks at the shore line, and sees a little indent in the side of a cliff edge. He realises that the indent could be a good shelter. After creating a shelter, Brian needed a fire, and he had to do it quickly. After building his shelter, it falls down, and out of frustration, he threw his hatchet at the rock edge. Once the hatchet contacted the rocky wall, 100 of bright, glistening sparks fell from the hatchet. Brian had the idea to bring some dried grass as fuel for the sparks to land on. Once finding the dry grass, he places it under the hatchet and strike it, sparks fly down and hit the grass, causing fire. After he settled the fire, Brian quickly came to the conclusion that he needed food, and he needed it quite quickly, if had any chance to have energy to continue surviving. Frustrated, Brian went to the “L” shaped lake, and took a sip of fresh water. He then realised that there were tiny yellow fish swimming in the water. But he had no method of fishing them out. And he needs the fish in a hurry. After walking around the lake, he find a stick, and begins to sharpen the top to a point with is hatchet is mother gave him. He now has a fish
The plane was in flames, and some how, some way Savage Koalabear and Cracker survived even though everybody else on the plane died. Savage Koalabear and Cracker were unconscious and they finally woke up, but barely and as soon as Savage Koalabear saw the plane was about to burst into flames, he warned Cracker and they ran out the plane and ran as far and as fast as they can. As they were running they heard a loud bang and the cracking sound of forest trees and they knew the plane crashed with all of their belongings and they knew they had to try to survive in the wild until someone can help
Have you been in the wilderness by yourself, but only yourself with no family or friends? Would you do this are you up for the challenge? This question comes from the book we just finished Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. The main character Brian Robeson is a survivor of a plane crash and he got stuck in the wilderness by himself for 54 days alone. Overall throughout those horrible events Brian has changed and has became a better and stronger and braver person.
Nobody prepares for or expects to end up in this situation. To survive in the wilderness all alone with no prior training and no supplies except for a hatchet for fifty-four days is quite an extraordinary feat. This is exactly what thirteen year old Brian Robeson from Gary Paulsen’s book Hatchet accomplishes. His plane crashes and he manages to stay alive against all odds. After roughly two months, he is rescued and taken back to civilization.
Hatchet In this book, a thirteen year old boy named Brian Robenson is going to his dad’s house, when out of nowhere, the pilot had a heart attack and died. Brian now has to figure out how to run the plane until the gas runs out, and he crashes. Now, brian is trying to survive by finding food and water. While going through many difficulties.
These are when Brian finds that his hatchet has the potential to create sparks to ignite a fire, and when he finally sees the big picture of the wild: food. Brian needed to learn many things to live; much to add to his current knowledge. An extraordinary discovery was introduced to Brian in chapter 8, which was a way to ignite a fire. The text in chapter 8 says, “ The hatchet was the key to it all… Somehow he could get fire from the hatchet.”
Title Has your life ever changed direction? For example, when a loved one passed away or because of a marriage. A turning point is when a person’s life changes tremendously. Brian Robeson, Gary Paulsen, and Feng Ru all faced moments when their life changed dramatically and they did something that not only affected them but also affected their country.
I will be telling you about the book The Foxman by: Gary Paulsen. The book is about a fifteen year old boy who they never say his name. (Lets Just Say his name is James to make things easier). James lived in the big city and is sent away to live with his Uncle’s family in Northern Minnesota. James gets sent away because his parents drink like fish and do not want to change they’re ways.
In Brian’s life was when the pilot had a heart attack in Hatchet. Well Hatchet is a children’s book, and because of the heart it made the book more realistic, so because of this he encouraged kids to read. Paulsen changed his life and impacted his country by a sad heart attack; finally let’s move on to Melba
The hatchet made Brian feel happy and strong again and he was able to hunt and made connections with his old English Teacher. (Hatchet p.7) He said that all he wanted
after his wounds heal, Brian begins to learn and adapt to his new environment, he starts to recognize whats edible and even start a fire. when things start to look good for brain, bad luck strikes and Brian is attacked by a moose and a tornado wipes out his camp. in the after math of the tornado, the tail of the aircraft surfaces in the nearby lake. he swims to the plane and retrieves a survival pack. among the supplies is a emergency transmitter.
He learns he is doing it wrong and decided to fix it. Now that we know about trial and error, let's go and see how Brian uses his hatchet to survive. Second, Brian uses good survival strategies by using his hatchet. He used this strategy well by using it to get to the survival pack.
The Hatchet is a intense survival story. The main character Brian is trapped in a forest after a bad plane crash. In the story, Brian used three survival strategies to lead him to staying alive in the forest and being able to face any challenges of survival. The strategies used are Trial and Error, Positive Thinking, and Observation. In the next paragraphs I will talk about the three main survival strategies Brian used to survive the forest.
Hatchet, the book, did a better job at telling the story than “A Cry in the Wild”. In my opinion, Hatchet did a better job at telling the story because it gives you more details. In Hatchet they use a lot of imagery. You can actually imagine what they are talking about without actually seeing it. In both, Hatchet and “A Cry in the Wild” they use foreshadowing.
The pilot shows Brian the plane 's rudder pedals and the steering controls, telling him that a "plane like this almost flies itself" Brian recovers his can-do attitude after a few days of self-petty and becomes even tougher than he was before. He constructs a bow and arrow, learns to fish, hunts birds and rabbits, and reinforces his shelter against the elements. He 's attacked by a skunk and, later, a moose. And as if eating raw turtle eggs and fighting off wild animals weren 't enough, Brian then
And “[I’m] going to die, [I’m] going to die, gonna die, [my] whole brain screamed it in the sudden silence.” (13) While Brian’s parents were undergoing for a divorce and getting into a fatal plane crash on his way to visit his father only ending up stranded on an island. Brian’s internal conflict of being stranded on an island and not being capable of doing anything relates to my school year when I first moved to Canada. At that point in time, my English was dreadful and being the only “Asian” kid in the class didn’t benefit me much either.