Three keys to surviving being lost in the wilderness are survival instincts, an axe, and scenes. In Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson used all three after he is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. Brian adapts and grows because of his struggle to survive. As a result of the events, he changes from distressed in the beginning, to lonesome yet egotistical in the middle, to floored in the end. 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. Slicing deep into him with hate. I think that Brian should have right away looked for the survival pack in the plane. …show more content…
At first Brian was at peace with nature (but not the mosquitos), then he tried to get a fire and some food.”Brian found it was a long way from sparks to fire”, and ”The fish spear didn't work”. I think that Brian was hindered by the obstacles around him physically and emotionally. Physically, he was being pulled from one side to another with challenges and tasks. On the other, he was fighting for the right to be alive. With a death eater on his trail he was only able to a few breaks in the midst of an extremely long and everlasting run for survival that all people take, some runs are harder than others and some are easier, but at the end for all of us, death eaters surround us (at different times of our lives) and take us away to the place of nothing, the place of end. Although Brian was able to find the strength to run another mile and find a water break (the rescue