Nature can be a dangerous thing. You can be eaten alive and suffer a painful death, everyone knows that. What doesn’t come to mind at first is that luck does play a part in being able to survive in nature. The book I’m writing about is Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. The main character (Brian) definitely has some bad luck moments in the wild, but he does have good luck moments to make up for it and boost his survival chances as well. The first bad luck moment in the book was when Brian was flying to his dad’s house and the pilot on the plane had a heart attack. This is probably one of the worst things that could‘ve happened to him on his flight, but he did have good luck to make up for it, he survived the crash landing. Now you may be thinking that death in the crash would’ve been easier for him since he would’ve died of hunger, thirst, or lack of a shelter anyway, but his good luck kicked up again. “All he had to do was wall off part of the bowl and leave and opening as a doorway and he would have a perfect shelter.” He found shelter right away, and crash landed in a lake so that was water and shelter taken care of right away. “ He could not believe it was that easy. It was as if the birds had taken him right to the berries.” Berries, that’s how he can eat, so that takes care of hunger. If it weren’t for his …show more content…
Brian’s bad luck didn’t affect him in a major way, (other than the plane crashing) but it did distract him temporarily. An example is when he saw a bear when he was berry picking. “He turned and saw the bear. He could do nothing, think nothing” Brian was stiff as tree when he saw the bear, terrified of what could’ve happened if the bear was hungry. Once the bear was gone he ran back to his shelter without picking anymore berries. This does set him back a bit since he is going to need to acquire more food, which he could’ve picked then. Brian’s luck does seem to settle if you average it