How To Survive In The Hatchet

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No one wants to survive in the wilderness alone and injured. In the book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, a thirteen year old boy named Brian Robeson is put in this situation. Brian was flying over the Canadian wilderness in a small two-person plane when the pilot has a heart attack. The plane crashes despite Brian’s attempts to keep it going, and survives the crash and makes it out of the wilderness with a hatchet as his only belonging. I believe I would survive like Brian did. I believe I would survive is because I could make fire. On page 81, Brian says, “I will have fire from the hatchet.” Brian found that the sparks from the hatchet could make fire. I know that when metal strikes against rock, sparks are created. I also know that dead leaves

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