Reading Journal #6 Currently, I have completed reading “The Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen. The genre of this novel is action and adventure. The Hatchet is the second book is the whole series. In this book, a thirteen-year-old boy named Brian was off to Canada in a small plane. He was on his way to meet his father, who moved to Canada after his parents divorced. The pilot flying the plane asked Brian to come sit with him where the plane’s controls are, since Brian was all alone seated at the back. As the pilot and Brian were talking the pilot had a heart attack. Brian tried saving him with the emergency kit, but it was no use. The pilot died, and the plane was in Brian’s control. He landed the plane and crashed into the woods, but he survived. …show more content…
He went through many adventures and improved on his hunting skills. He survived in the woods for forty-two days, and no one came to rescue him. Suddenly, a plane arrives. It was circling around the area where the emergency transmitter switch was turned on. The pilot lands beside a lake and sees Brian. The pilot tells Brian that he was signaled from the emergency transmitter. At the end of the book, Brian was taken back to his mother in New York City and was never able to see his father. This book was told in Brian’s …show more content…
I would change it to Brian surviving on his own, and waiting for someone to rescue him. Then he would escape by himself. I would make the emergency transmitter work normally, and someone was coming to save him. Though when he was hunting, the transmitter ending up breaking. From this situation, Brian tries to make a plan to escape. Everyday, he’ll go into the woods to find food and materials to make weapons. Then, when he’s ready he’ll explore the woods looking for a village or city to ask help. As he was exploring the woods, he will have to fight off his predators such as a bear, or a wolf. I would have written down a part where he is about to die from being attacked, and right when the predator was going to kill him, a hunter kills the predator from behind and saves Brian. When Brian’s cured, he thanks the hunter, and realizes that his father was the hunter who saved him. They both end up living together in the woods. Overall, this book is amazing. I like how it was based on survival skills through hunting. This book teaches you life hacks through it’s description of what Brian does to survive. Also, the author wrote the book in a way to make the readers get scared. That you don’t know if Brian’s going to survive or die while hunting for dangerous predators. I think that I will read this series since I’m enjoying the first book, and my reading goal is going
I would recommend this book to people who love realistic stories. Personally for me it is hard to find books that interest me and this one felt like if I was watching someone else's life while I read it. It has so many interesting points. When you think something might happen
The plot of this book begins with the fact that Canadian girl named Laura finds out that her father is a humble pensioner, a former teacher, committed suicide from the bridge, during
Brian quickly made a fire using small pieces of bark that caught fire really fast. He now had warmth and a shelter, the only he needed was a steady food supply.
The book I chose for my book review was Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. The genre of this book is Realistic Fiction and is 195 pages. In Hatchet, Brian is on a bush plane visiting his father in Canada. The pilot suddenly had a severe heart attack, and unexpectedly died. Brian lands the plane in the deserted northern woods of Canada and has to learn how to survive in the wilderness. This book review includes my opinion and the summary about Hatchet.
Hatchet by Gary Paulson is a fiction novel about a thirteen-year-old boy named Brian that survives a plane crash after the pilot dies of a heart attack and Brian is forced to land the plane himself, and in doing so, lands in a lake around the setting of a Canadian forest. Throughout the duration of the novel, Brian is to survive this dangerous situation with nothing except for a literal hatchet that was gifted to him by his mother prior to getting on the plane to go visit his father in the Canadian North Woods as his parents are newly separated after a recent divorce. Gary Paulsen was inspired to write Hatchet from his own life and personal experiences as both of his parents gave him a hard time growing up through their rocky marriage and unstable parenting as well as the fact that he grew up in the country and had to provide for himself. Hatchet also received a 1988 Newbery Honor award for its excellency. The fiction book is a piece of his life and it’s struggles as he wrote it to convey the following opinions: positivity can get you far no matter what the situation at hand may be, man can
In my opinion I think that Hatchet does a better job of telling the story better than“A Cry in the Wild”,because it tells you how he feels when he does something.For instances in “A Cry in the Wild”it doesn’t tell you how he feels when drives the airplane,but in Hatchet it says that he felt like the plain was alive in page 4 of Hatchet.Also in chapter 9 in Hatchet it said that when he built a fire he said that he felt like the fire was his friend because it got all of the bugs away that bite me.It also gave him heat and light.In the movie “A Cry in the Wild” it didn’t even say anything.It showed how he did it and boom there was fire.They did not show how he felt about what the fire felt to him and he did even say that it was his friend.All
Gary Paulsen: A Life of Adventure and Survival Gary Paulsen’s whole life reflects his life of adventures and survival in the wilderness, and his writing reflects his experiences. Living in the remote Minnesota woods, Paulsen released Some Birds Don't Fly in 1966 (Trelease). He began his professional writing career and has now achieved three Newbery Honor Books with his novels - Hatchet, The Winter Room and Dogsong (Pendergast). Paulsen’s most popular book, Hatchet, a story of a young boy named Brian who lands a plane after the pilot dies from a heart attack and must survive in the remote wilderness alone, reflects some of Paulsen’s real life experiences when he used to answer emergency calls and deal with many heart attack victims (Paulsen 2). The plane crash in Hatchet was also created by Paulsen after he was on the scene of a plane crash where the pilots died (Paulsen 7).
When the pilot found him, the old Brian would have not been very patient to get on the plane and go home, but now he is kind and patient, because I think he realizes that the pilot has probably just saved his life, and he really owes the pilot. In chapter 19, the text says “He looked at the pilot and the plane, and down at himself - dirty and ragged, burned and lean and tough - and he coughed to clear his throat. ‘My name is Brian Robeson,’ he said. Then he saw that his stew was done, the peach whip almost done, and he waved to it with his hand. ‘Would you like something to eat?’” This quote really shows that he has grown as a person and has gained kindness and patience. Before this experience, he would’ve not said anything and just got on the plane and whined to go home. Now, he is inviting him to eat, showing that he is waiting, so he is more patient, and by offering the pilot something it shows that he is
I have a few likes about the book. One is that it is about rodeoing. I like to read about rodeoing and watch rodeo shows too. Another thing I liked about the book is that parts of it are about surviving in the wilderness. Most of the books I read are about surviving in the wilderness. One more thing I liked about the book is that it was easy reading. I am a slow reader and the easy reading helped to speed the process up.
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
Just like in “Hatchet” a adventure story about a boy who is in a plane to visit hiss father when the plane crashes and he is left in the woods to survive on his own with nobody to help him by Gary Paulsen HIs plane crashes in the canadian north woods and every day he made a mistake and he never made the same mistake again because he learned from his mistakes and adapted. Just like the other characters will. Another story is “middle
Bob Kiley, a soldier that everyone called Rat experienced a type of warfare that caused him a personal type of madness. O’Brien believes that Rat’s true experiences began when he lost his friend Lemon. Lemon and Rat was playing catch when Lemon stepped on a booby-trap. Today, people have counselors and support systems to assist them with deal with the death of a partner in war. However, the time of war Ray experience did not offer these benefits. To deal with his pain he attempted to take his frustration out on a water buffalo. He thought that by shooting the animal through various parts of its body would ease the pain that he felt. Once he wrote to his sister to tell her that “what a great brother she had (617). Lemon’s sister did not respond to the letter the he sent this hurt him even more. The truth in the story is that Rat experiences a true disconnect between the war and a person that has never experience the war.
I would recommend this book to a friend because this book is a great book all around. This book has good suspense even though it might seem like a kids book.
I would recommend this book to a certain type of person that I am not. This book would be great for someone who wants to learn more about the fishes that most commonly end up on their plate. If someone was interested in in the future of the oceans and the last wild food, this book would be great for them. While I did not enjoy the book I still give it three stars out of five due to being full of good information to those that want it.