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Hatchet Quotes Analysis

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Hatchet In this book, a thirteen year old boy named Brian Robenson is going to his dad’s house, when out of nowhere, the pilot had a heart attack and died. Brian now has to figure out how to run the plane until the gas runs out, and he crashes. Now, brian is trying to survive by finding food and water. While going through many difficulties. Brian is motivated by survival because he has to learn how to live in the wild all by himself with hardly any knowledge about it. In the book, when brian crashes, he is thinking about how he will find food which is where this quote comes into place. “There was nothing obvious to eat and aside from about a million birds and the beaver. He hadn't seen animals to trap and cook, even if he got one somehow, he didn't have any matches so he couldn't have a fire.” on page 45. In this quote, he is saying how he needs to find food and needed to figure out how to …show more content…

Brian is saying how he doesn't care if the berries made him sick and feel gross. It was food and it filled him up more than no food would. While Brian was figuring out how to start a fire, this quote came into text and it says “There could be fire here, he thought. I will have a fire here, he thought, and struck again - I will have a fire from the hatchet.” and that is on page 81. Brian knew that he needed to start a fire in order to survive, stay warm, and cook food to help with him hunger. Brian knows everything he needs to do to survive, but he doesn't know how to do all of it. So he continues to do what he knows and makes some of the stuff up on the way that actually ends up turning out positive. Brian Robenson learned that you should always be prepared for any circumstance and be informed on any safety precautions that may

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Hatchet Emily Kretschmer I would first move the pilot and see if he is respond and and try to drive the plane while trying wake him up and call 911 with my cell phone and try as best I can to land the plane. Chapter 2-3 what would happen if the Brian was knocked out if he was knocked out would probably die. Chapter 4 the secret is that his mom was dating someone else then his dad.

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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.

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Identify 3 ways how Brian needed to use the environment to survive In the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Brian used multiple effective ways to survive in the wilderness only such as when fire was made, using the wood to make weapons, and using the L-shaped lake for various reasons. These elements helped him a lot. Brian is extremely lucky because when the hatchet was thrown against the cave walls when the porcupine was present on page 76, sparks just happened to be noticed.

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Here it becomes clear that Jack is irresponsible because he let his only chance of getting off the island die out and choose to hunt for boars. Irresponsibility

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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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What would you do if you got stuck in the Canadian woods? Do you think you could have survived? The reason I asked these questions is because that is what happens to Brian Robison in the book Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen. After being in a plane crash Brian finds himself in the Canadian woods with no help, or no people. He luckily survives for 54 days until he was found by a different pilot.

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“He did not smoke, and of course he did not drink; indeed, he had never tasted spirits, and was inclined to avoid people who had—a circumstance that did not shrink his social circle as much as might be supposed, for the center of that circle was supplied by the members of Garden City's First Methodist Church,a congregation totaling seventeen hundred ,most of whom were as abstemious as Mr. Clutter could desire.’’ (10) ( Culture and Community ) Capote used this quote to illustrate the culture of the village of Holcomb, where Mr.Clutter lived and how the social life of a religious family is rooted in their church. This quote represents culture, because is trying to tell us that people in Holcomb should live a life according to their religion ,because their actions affect their social circle and their community.

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As Brian becomes more familiar with the animals and his surroundings, he was becoming braver. When he started hearing unusual noises,he began to worry and was thinking about how he was going to survive. Brian was worried about the food around him; if the porcupine had found it, he would have to find a new diet. In chapter 8, the novel states,” They were stiff and very sharp on the ends that stuck out, and he knew then what the attacker had been. A porcupine had stumbled into his shelter and when he had kicked it the thing had slapped him with its tail of quills.

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This quote connects to the theme “The effect of the wilderness on American imagination and Life on the road” in that it explains how others had the same mindset as Chris McCandless did, they are willing to die in the wilderness all alone and this is important because Chris McCandless actions have inspired many people to do the same as he has done, he inspired them to go out and make something out of themselves and find their

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Brian Fitzgerald, the father of Anna, Kate and Jesse Fitzgerald, is a firefighter and spends his days battling the fires, both real and symbolic, which destroy other people’s lives. Unfortunately, he is unable to fight the fires within his own life, and this leads to the destruction of his ability to save his family from the difficult situations they face. The Fitzgerald family’s medical and moral issues that stem from Anna being born as a medical donor for Kate affect each of the characters in different ways. In My Sister’s Keeper, fire is the mechanism used to symbolize these problems that the Fitzgerald family faces. Fire in a general sense is the combustion that occurs when fuel reacts with oxygen to release heat energy.

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I remember when I was about ten, in the fifth grade, I came home one evening bored and started playing with paper. Paper that I eventually set on fire, that eventually set my trash can on fire, scared me to death, and got my butt whipped. In the book Black Boy by Richard Wright, Wright has many central messages and themes. One major motif was fire and its metaphors and uses in the book. Wright utilized fire to show his development educationally, religiously, and psychologically.

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Gary Paulsen 's Hatchet is a modern classic tale of a stranded boy 's struggle for survival in the wilderness. The book is based on a 13-year-old who is accustomed to big-city life and comfort when he finds himself alone in a remote Canadian forest with no tools but a hatchet his mother gave him. Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old boy from New York City, is the only passenger on a small plane headed toward the oil fields of Canada. Brian is on his way to spend the summer with his father, and he 's feeling totally bummed about his parents ' recent divorce. he doesn 't have much time to dwell on his unhappy family situation, though, because the pilot the only other person on the plane suddenly suffers a heart attack and dies.

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The first survival strategy used by Brian was Trial and Error. One example of trial and error was when Brian was making a fire. He tried and tried to keep the fire going with the birch bark but the fire wouldn't stay lit. Then he remember what his science teacher said about needing oxygen to keep the fire

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“The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott This is a quote John Proctor sure would have approved of. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible depicts the last days of the life of John Proctor. In this short time, John Proctor goes through many changes that support Miller’s theme that love is more enduring that lust.

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Ursula Le Guin defines Omelas as a utopia where the citizens’ lives are never wretched. Le Guin captures her readers’ attention by describing the city’s beauty with the colorful scenery, events featuring games and horse riding, and the everlasting happiness. She does a great job of leading her readers into thinking this could be the perfect society, but leaves us with the question of satisfaction. According to Le Guin, “happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive” (p. 2). This quote means that there must be a balance for the society to succeed.

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