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Theme Of Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

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In this day and age teens and young adults are forced to grow up at younger age as well as go through conflicts internal or external with little to no assistance along the way. This makes the initiation to manhood seemingly harder. Everyone's circumstances are different, Everyone reacts to change differently. These events people go through shape them for the future and to the people they will become. Gary Paulsen poses this theme in his fictional adventure novel Hatchet. Set on the North woods, of central Canada during presumably 1980’s, the novel begins when Brian takes a plane from Hamptons, New York to Canada to visit his dad, the pilot has a heart attack. He immediately loses consciousness and dies, Brian is forced to fly the plane and …show more content…

Then, Dallas Morning News, also poses the theme in their article Juvenile Justice Program Teaches Boys Life Lessons and Accountability, set in Dallas, Texas in 2015, the article begins by explaining what the program is, essentially, it is a six month rehabilitation program for minority boys. Created to be an alternative to sentencing and a last chance to avoid a juvenile record. Their main focus is to emphasize life lessons, such as accountability, respect, responsibility, and empathy as well as building character. In “Hatchet” and “Juvenile justice program teaches boys life lessons and accountability”, Gary Paulsen and Dallas Morning News both use the theme of initiation to manhood, although in different ways they both convey the idea of coming of age though difficult …show more content…

When the authors start to really explain what the program is the subject of having a second chance, and growing up is heavaily shown. These troubled boys have gotten a second chance to rethink, reflect, and reevaluate their actions to better their future. Not everyone has good examples when growing up, or even a good parental figure to guide them into the path of manhood. To illustrate, Dallas Morning News writes, “More than telling these boys to stay out of trouble, Ashford and his team teach life lessons about accountability, respect, responsibility, and empathy”( Dallas morning news, page 2). Though the boys are troubled, they are still being taught the basic things they need to know to becoming a man in this society. It is all up to them if they want to take the help, but these lessons of accountability, respect, responsibility, and empathy, will help them in the future into becoming in to men. This really helps them mature and to grow into adulthood, rather than struggling to try to catch up. For example, Dallas Morning News

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In the survival novel “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen, A character, Brian had to overcome a huge problem which delivered character development in the three instances; plane crash, forest and mainly his personal life. Brian was a thirteen year old boy whose parents got divorced. Brian recently had been flying on a plane for his first time to see his father. He was flying from Hampton, New York to the north woods of Canada where his dad moved to as a result of the divorce. Brian had been told by the judge, he has to stay with his mother during the school days and is allowed to stay with his father during the summer due to the law.

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In the novel Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen the main character's name is Brian Robeson. He tries to survive in a plane with a pilot who just had a heart attack. When he was in the plane he was scared knowing that if something happened to the plane he could die. The text states on page 15,¨He had to fly it somehow. Had to fly the plane.

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Hatchet is the first book from the Hatchet series written by Gary Paulsen. The book was first written in 1989 and it is still one of the famous book among the young readers. The book Hatchet is all about the main character Brian, whose parents got divorced because of a SECRET and gets stuck in a Canadian wilderness by himself after a plane crash and had to survive only with a hatchet. Since Brian was a city boy, he wasn’t use to surviving in a rough circumstance but as the story develops, Brian also becomes more independent and more pragmatic. There were many themes throughout the book Hatchet, however the main 3 themes that would be described in the analysis are family, isolation and perseverance.

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You Are Your Most Valuable Asset Gary Paulsen’s survival novel, Hatchet, tells the story of Brian Robeson, a thirteen-year-old boy whose plane crashes after the pilot has a heart attack, leaving him stranded in the Canadian wilderness. He spends fifty-four days near an L-shaped lake, surviving nature 's unforgiving atmosphere with only his hatchet as a tool and his thoughts as a friend. Furthermore, Brian learns that he is his most important resource, and this is later proven to be the main theme of the story. The theme you are your best resource is shown throughout the novel when Brian when he makes fire, and when he retrieves the survival pack from the plane.

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Don’t Doubt Yourself Have you ever imagined or wondered about how you would survive fifty-four days on your own after a severe plane crash? In Gary Paulsen's adventure novel, Hatchet, he tells the story of a thirteen-year-old boy named Brian Robeson, who is stranded in the Canadian wilderness after his plane crashes. He spends the next fifty-four days alone, with only his thoughts and a hatchet. In fact, while Paulsen shows Brian was trying to survive on his own, fighting nature, he reveals a theme to his story: don’t doubt yourself or others. This theme of not doubting yourself is shown when Brian was on the plane during and after the plane crash when he wanted to end his life, and right before he was rescued.

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And out of nowhere the pilot suddenly gets a heart attack and Brian didn’t know what to do at the time. But then he finally realizes that he should take control of the plane before he crashes. After kinda maintaining the plane he does still crash in a lake but survives. And now he has to face any objects coming his way . He

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