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The Hatchet: A Short Story

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Have you ever been stranded In the middle of the Canadian woods, all alone with no shelter and no food or water, and all you had was a Hatchet? Brian had a lot of memories in Hatchet that taught him a lot about patience and other important lessons. Brian has learned a lot of patience and a lot of skills to survive in the wild. Brian has had a lot of memories in hatchet about his parents and the secret and about when his mom left out fish in the house and it made the house stink and that taught him a very important lesson. His parents got divorced because his mom cheated on his dad and Brian new and didn't tell his dad. As i have said before Brian has had a lot of memories some are positive and some are negative, one that is negative is. When Brian saw his mom at the mall kissing a man who wasn't his father, it was so hard for him and while he was trapped in the middle of the canadian woods he thought about that every day it was like a knife cutting into him. And a couple of months later Brian's parents got divorced and Brian never told his mom that he saw her and that man, and brian never told his dad what he saw that night. …show more content…

Slicing deep into him with Hate. The secret he had been keeping inside of him for so long, he had been riding his ten-speed with a friend named terry they had been taking a ride on A bike trail and decided to come back a different way, a way that took them past the Amber mall. Brian remembered everything in incredible detail. Remembered the time on the clock in the mall, flashing 3:31, then the temperature 82, and date and he saw his mother kissing another man The Secret.Chapter 4, The explanation is Brian was thinking of How his mom was cheating on his Dad and he knew it and he couldn't bring himself to tell his dad. Thats a negative memory he is always thinking about the divorce and about what if his parents are together while Brian is lost in the

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