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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, is an attention grabbing, page turning book. It is about a thirteen year old boy named Brian sharing a tragic, life threatening, exhilarating experience. While flying on a two seater plane to Canada to visit his dad, Brian’s pilot has a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash land the plane in a lake, and survive on his own in the Northern woods of Canada, with nothing but a hatchet.
Hatchet is based off of true events. Paulsen states that these things have happened to him “just in the process of living.” He is representing himself in the form of Brian, the main character. In the book, 54 days before Brian leaves to visit his father, his parents get divorced. Now, Brian not only has to survive on his own in the forest, but he must face the emotional burden of his parents divorce. Hatchet is full of realistic adventure, and is easy to follow along with. The vocabulary Gary Paulsen uses is intermediate, and in my opinion, is …show more content…

Animal attacks, natural disasters, food poisoning, tragedy, the list goes on and on. Paulsen also shows a significant amount of resilience in Brian. After a plane passes by, and Brian fails to capture its attention, he attempts to take his own life with his hatchet. This is a very important moment in the book because Brian becomes a stronger person and bounces back immediately. The fact that he tried to kill himself is one of the reasons why parents challenge the book, for they completely overlook the comeback Brian makes. Parents also challenge Hatchet for things such as description of death, wounds, and violence, and sexual content. In my opinion these challenges are absurd. If a reader cannot handle cuts on a leg, attacks by a skunk, a moose, and a porcupine, and the description of a kiss, then chances are they are easily affected and should know what they should and should not

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The story's main character Brian Robeson some other Important characters are his mom ,his dad, and the man that his mom was secretly seeing. When brian crashed into the lake his main goal was to find food and survive. His whole personality changed he was all about surviving the most important thing was Surviving not his Mom's Secret. The author of hatchets name is Gary Paulsen.

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In the book, GUTS: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books, Paulsen shares his own adventures in the wilderness and how he incorporated them into the Brian novels. He committed himself to doing things he had never done before to make sure that the main character throughout the Brian series could do them. Paulsen also educate his readers about surviving in the wilderness. For example, when Brian starts a fire using sparks from a hatchet against a rock or when he ate raw turtle eggs, Paulsen did the same exact thing.

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In the beginning of Hatchet ch.1-6, Brian felt at a downcast. At first Brian thought that he would die, but when he survived Brian knew that he was stranded there. “Going to die, Brian thought. Going to die, gonna die, gonna die-his whole brain screamed it in the sudden silence.” also, “The memory was like a knife cutting into him.

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An important event in Hatchet was when Brian made a raft and went out to the plane to get the survival kit. Brain had seen the plane out at the lake after the tornado, and He wanted to go out there and see want was on the plane. He was thinking about it then he remembered that the survival kit was out there so he really wanted to go and get it, but something bad happened. When he got out there he was hitting the side of the plane (which was very easy), but he dropped his hatchet. But he got it, and opened the plane and had seen the dead pilot.

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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.

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I’ve always loved movies, but I’m not much of a book reader. Despite this, I read Hatchet for and it was... okay. It wasn’t the best but it was enjoyable to some extent. The movie, A Cry in the Wild, though was so cringe worthy that my distant, soon to be wife, or husband, cringed even though she, or he, probably didn’t see it.

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“Hatchet” does a better job of telling the story, than “A cry in the wilds” . I believe this because it show’s more imagery and a better understanding of foreshadowing, rather than just showing us a picture. For example, imagery in the book, Brian described the kiss of his mother and the secret kissing. According to the text, the book showed imagery by saying , “he widened the hole with his finger and looked inside. Just an egg.

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In my opinion Hatchet explains the story better using imagery and foreshadowing. For example when Brian was eating the raspberries he told us that they were tangy, sweet, juicy, and ripe which helped me almost be able to taste the berries. When Brian from, “A Cry In The Wild”ate the fish he just talked to himself I couldn’t paint a picture in my head or even almost taste it, it really didn’t describe the fish or use imagery. When Brian in hatchet ate the fish he told us it was greasy,flaky smelled good,and tasted so good. I could almost smell and taste the fish this is where he used imagery again.

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Hatchet is a book about survival written by Gary Paulsen with the experience he had before. Paulsen lived just as his character in Hatchet lived in the wilderness, also he tried making fire with a hatchet and rocks himself, and succeeded to write the book with such description and realty. This book is one of a kind, and has a very unique way of describing and writing. Also the character, Brian Robeson and the author, Gary Paulsen have a connection between their fourth dimensional personality (the author gave to Brian) that you cannot find easily anywhere. I highly recommend this book to any type of being that can read.

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If you read hatchet you read that Brian got rescued but people started to wonder what he would of had to go thru if he didn 't and had to threw the winter, So the author made this book Brian 's Winter that

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Brian in Hatchet survives a plane crash and landed in a Canadian Wilderness. He learned to survive on his own and find shelter. He was starting to give up but then he remembered the hatchet his mom gave him.

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The themes in both Hatchet and Castaway was similar. The two themes that would be discussed in relation to Hatchet and Castaway are; perseverance and family. At the start of both texts, the main characters Brian and Chuck weren’t sure of exactly where they landed and just hoped that a rescue plane or a boat will come near to help. Brian decides to keep him alive until the rescue plane comes. Although Perpich wasn’t one of his family members he persevered Brian to always think positive and stay on top of things.

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Have you ever been stuck in the wilderness alone? 13 year old Brian Robeson has. He was stuck in the Canadian Woods for 54 days. He had to use survival strategies like these to help him survive. He uses trial and error, his hatchet, and he thinks positively.

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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

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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.

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