Imagine being alone in the wilderness. Nothing but trees, ground, sky, and what lies beyond where you are not. Do you think you could survive 54 days like this? Could you rely on only yourself, your knowledge, and your memory? This is what Brian had to go through in the book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen.
‘I'm just going to see if he's okay.’ ‘You're weird,’ Peter said. ‘I hope he hurt his brain! Can I go with you?” Some similarities are that, in the first book, Cole almost completely overcomes anger with the help of the pond, ancestor rock, carving,
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is a New York Times Bestseller by none other than, Wes Moore. This novel features an intriguing tale of two boys who grew up under the same circumstances, under the same names, and with the same chances; and yet one manages to become a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader while the other grew up heisting and selling drugs until he received a life sentence for felony murder after shooting a police officer. The more successful Wes Moore, Wes Moore, began to visit the less successful Wes Moore, the other Wes Moore, during his prison sentence in order to write the book. Furthermore, the book turned out to be great.
Have you ever been stuck in the wilderness? Brian Robeson, a 13 year old was for 54 days. What kept him alive? Well, Brian used plenty of things. He used his hatchet, and most importantly, his survival strategies.
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.
Although the guys insisted there were no planes available, the lieutenant had them take the B-24 Green Hornet. “There was only one ship, the Green Hornet,” “We were very reluctant, but Phillips finally gave in for the rescue mission”( Hillenbrand 96). After taking flight, the plane began to experience engine problems and began to go down. The men prepared for crash landing into the Pacific Ocean. Louie, Phil and Mac survived the crash, but were stranded on a raft.
CASTAWAY The movie Castaway was released on 22nd of December 2000 first in the USA and directed by Robert Zemeckis. ‘Hatchet’ is the first book from the Hatchet series written by Gary Paulsen and was first written in 1989. Both of the text have many similarities relating to the setting, characteristics but also many differences.
Wes Moore’s Journey in Life The superficial similarities of two kids have an identical name, Wes Moore, grown up in the same neighborhood at the same time with fatherless families. Both kids had beaten into troubles with the police. However, their paths in adulthood diverged due to their personal choices, decisions, and values, forming two different experiences in career and life.
Chris McCandless was in his early 20’s, he was the kind of that guy that wanted to learn and experience life without all of the material things. He wanted to be independent from his parents and friends so Chris did something that would be insane for most of us humans but to him, it wasn’t. He went into the wild of Alaska for months, in fact, McCandless even thought he could make it out alive at the end of his journey. As a matter of fact, he was known as being a risk taker and enjoyed being out and about in the nature side of the world. Many would believe that Chris McCandless went into the wild to purposely kill himself; however, I myself believe that McCandless did not do it purposely.
I was worried how he would take it; after all, she had been no help to him during his time there with her. She tried to get him to stay, as they had quite a unique relationship, but he was ready to leave and take on the trail, and for this I was happy. He was also somewhat suspicious of her sudden help and was curious about some of the requirements. He had to travel on a raft that he would make himself, which gave him an uneasy feeling, as he was unsure that it would be a sufficient way to travel across the ocean. It took him four days to build his boat and on the fifth day, Calypso dressed in him new clothes and launched him from her island.
In “The Greatest Journey” by James Shreeve, he talks about how we all share the same ancestors and we all come from Africa. He says that it all started in Africa about 200,000 years ago. These people who lived in Africa years ago started to leave the area and expand to Eurasia and Australia. As they were migrating to other places, they were able to adjust to the new environment. This is when everybody started to change because of weather, food, and other factors of environment that affected these people.
Runner Essay Charlie faces many challenges in the novel ‘Runner’ and generally overcomes them by making the right choices. The novel Runner is a novel written by Robert Newton which describes life in Richmond, Melbourne in the 1919. The novel follows the protagonist, Charlie Feehan, as his family and himself struggle with the effects of poverty, corruption and sorrow.
Neil felt like his father’s prisoner, and he sacrificed his life to escape. “Maybe it was an act to break free from his father’s control, but in trying to gain that control over his life, he sacrificed everything to escape”
First, Brian uses good survival strategies by using trial and error. He used this strategy well. For example, he started steering the plane up and down to keep it steady. He used trial and error by doing it over and over again until he did it correctly.
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.
