Book Report On Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

Hatchet

A book report by Todd M. Hatchet was written by Gary Paulsen and was written in 1987. It has 197 pages. Throughout this fictional book the author relives some of his hard times as a kid and what he had to go through in the book’s main character. Gary Paulsen shows how he liked to go out in the wilderness and survive on his own through the character’s experiences.

In Gary Paulsen’s book Hatchet, Brian Robeson is the main character and has some very noticeable characteristics. When his parents divorced it made him very angry and affected him in a negative way and was often left alone. He also got very scared that he would be left alone in the wilderness forever. His mom gave him a hatchet and was very thankful for it because it

On their way, his mom gave him a hatchet. While on the plane flight, the pilot had a heart-attack and died. This made Brian panic a lot and he ended up crashing in a lake. He had survived the crash with minor injuries, but was in need of food and water. Brian drank the water in the lake and for food, he went out looking for berries and found some gut cherries, then later found raspberries. While getting attacked by a porcupine he threw his hatchet and missed the porcupine and it hit the wall and created sparks, he now figured out how to make fire. A couple days later, he walked into the lake, he saw that the fish were swimming up to his feet, he made a bow and some arrows to hunt them and that worked. After being attacked by a skunk, he finally decided to build a better shelter. One day when Brian was out cleaning a ruffed grouse, he looked behind him and a moose was coming right at him. Next thing he knew he was picked off his feet and thrown into the water, the moose repeated this twice more but much more viciously. The tornado that had hit him saved him because out on the water was the tale end of the plane, he then remembered the survival bag in it. There was an emergency transmitter, when he pressed the button nothing happened but later that night he heard a plane engine coming towards him, the plane landed on the water and after fifty-four days in the wilderness, he had been rescued.