Hatchet was written by Gary Paulsen. The book is about a thirteen-year-old boy who was on his way to visit his father but the plane crashed and he finds himself alone in the Canadian Wilderness. All he has the hatchet is mother gave to him before he got on the plane and left. Brain which is the name of the boy is stranded in the wilderness for fifty-four days. Awhile before he goes to visit his father he saw his mother kissing another man. Before his mother and father divorced. On his way to see his father the pilot who was driving the plane had a heart attack and died, which left Brain on his own. Brain brings the plane down into a lake, but he flew off course and no one really knew where he was. If it was winter Brain would of already died