Hatchet Character Analysis Essay

Every day thousands of people die and their families have to deal with the loss and depression that comes with this.I have personally gone through this experience and had to deal with the grief. When someone goes through a loss they usually go through five stages (D.A.B.D.A) : Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. In Hatchet Gary Paulsen uses survival and Character development to Show the reader how going through a major loss with no help puts emotional and physical struggles on you.

When you go through the five stages of loss alone it is truly devastating and one of the hardest parts of life.When you go through a loss alone the emotions are worsened a lot and even though you will want to be alone you shouldn't. The book Hatchet shows how it is isolating yourself from the world during a loss. “He was sitting in a bush plane roaring seven thousand feet above the northern wilderness with a pilot who had suffered a massive heart attack and who was either dead ar in a coma…. He was alone, alone.”In this Quote it shows the initial shock and the very quick denial of the situation that comes after the initial he screamed it and he could not be sure if the scream awakened him or the pain in his stomach….Brian stood at the end of the long part of the lake and watched the water, smelled the water, listened to the water, was the water.” The first part of the quote shows how even in sleep you will have a desperation for someone to love and care about you and this book shows this feeling almost perfectly. The second part tell us that in depression you may resolve into isolation and emotion dullness. In these stages and in the book you can feel the struggle and the determination to get through the challenge to accepting the