Mla Citation For Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

Hatchet

Have you ever crash landed and survived for fifty-four days all by yourself in the wild? Probably not. But in the book Hatchet written by Gary Paulsen Brian Robinson does. Gary Paulsen wrote an adventure story that took place in the Canadian wilderness. In the anecdote the main character, Brian Robenson crash lands in the wild and learns how to subsist all by himself. He learns how to get water, food, and how to make a fire.

Brian crash lands because the pilot died from a heart attack and learns how to survive in the wilderness all by himself. On the second day thirst came to him, so he drank some of the pond water and couldn’t stop drinking. Almost immediately he became sick and threw up most of the water but was not thirsty anymore. “But when he brought a cupped hand to his mouth and felt the cold lake water trickle past his cracked lips he could not stop,” (42). “Where he was immediately sick and threw up most of the water,” (42). So, he solved his thirst problem very simply and easily.

But now hunger came to him so he sat and thought. He had to get motivated he thought. Then he said to himself that I am going to find some berries. Then he saw some birds fly under a tree so he followed them and he saw them eating berries. So, he started to eat them and spit it out but then he kept eating and jamming them into his mouth. Then he felt sick a little but then it was gone. “He could not believe it was that easy. It was as if the birds had taken him right to the berries,” (59). “A tightening, rolling. Too many berries, he thought. I ate too many of them. But it was gone soon…,” (61). Then he walked about a hundred yards up the shore and saw a clearing with small thorny bushes filled with raspberries. “It also made kind of a clearing…and it was filled with small thorny bushes that were covered with berries. Raspberries,” (69). So, he found food very simply just with a little