Could you survive in the Canadian Wilderness, ALONE, for 54 days, without anything but a hatchet? I don’t think that I could, but that is what the main character of Hatchet, 13 year old Brian Robeson, had to do in order for there to be any chance to get to go home. Brian changed a lot throughout the story, mostly in good ways. He was a little city slicker, with no experience of doing anything, but when he was the only survivor of a plane crash, and was stranded in the Canadian Wilderness, he had to figure out what to do… even when things get hard. He got attacked by a vicious moose, and was hit by a tornado in the same day, and normally that would have made him want to end it all, but the new Brian did not give up, and restarted everything …show more content…
he had done. Also, when a pilot finally found him, instead of whining and running onto the plane, he was patient, kind, and grateful, and asked the pilot to sit down and have something to eat. Throughout this entire experience, Brian gained physical and mental strength, toughness, braveness, and patience. Brian had gone through a lot of things, but I think that the worst 2 things were when he got ran over by a moose and got hit by a tornado all in the same day.
This was a bad experience for Brian, but it was also a good experience, because he learned from it and became stronger and tougher. In chapter 16, the text says “This morning he had been fat - well, almost fat - and happy, sure of everything, with good weapons, and food, and the sun in his face and things looking good for the future and inside of one day, just one day, he had been run over by a moose and a tornado, had lost everything, and was just back to square one. Just like that. A flip of some giant coin and he was the loser. But there is a difference now, he thought - there really is a difference. I might be hit, but I’m not done. When the light comes I’ll start to rebuild. I still have the hatchet and that’s all I had in the first place. Come on, he thought, baring his teeth in the darkness - come on. Is that the best you can do? Is that all you can hit me with - a moose and a tornado? Well, he thought, holding his ribs and smiling, then spitting mosquitoes out of her mouth. Well, that won’t get the job done. That was the difference now. He had changed, and he was tough. I’m tough where it counts - tough in the head.” This quote proves to me that he has changed, and he knows he has changed. He is proud of the man he has become. From this experience, he has gained physical and mental strength. He learned to be …show more content…
tough, and brave, and he learned how to not get knocked off his feet so easily. He is so much more mature, and such a better and stronger person now. Along with the strength, braveness, and toughness, Brian also gained patience.
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
kind Brian went through a lot in this past 54 days, but he gained strength, kindness, and patience. This was a rough time in his life, but I think that it changed him for the best, and even though he could’ve given up many, many times, he didn’t and I think that shows that he changed and became much more mature. When he got run over by a moose and hit by a tornado, he was hit, but he wasn’t out. He was rescued, and instead of being whiny, he was patient and even offered the pilot food. This is not how I would have expected him to act, but he has matured… A LOT. Knowing what all Brian went through, I don’t think I could survive… Do you?
He says that he has to-do list every game of what to put out, when to put it out, and where to put it. He puts out gum, sugar free gum, Big League Chew, bats, helmets, and towels. He does that every game and makes sure it is exactly where it’s supposed to be. Brian helped Hank Bishop get out of his very bad slump. Hank was nearing 500 home runs near the end of the season, he had 499. He kept striking out so Brian told him what was wrong. Whenever Hank came over to Brian’s house Brian waited until the end and took him to his room and showed him what was wrong with his swing. Brian said “You need to lower your hand a little, you have them too high up”. They went to the nearby baseball field and fixed it that night. Hank did that their last home game of the season and hit his 500th home
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.
To begin with in Hatchet, Brian Robeson pilot dies of a heart attack when on his way to his father’s home in Canada. Now Brian is forced to fly the plane and crashes in some lake then swims and saves himself. He may not be picked up that day or any day so it leaves brian alone to survive and live on his own. He is not
The book hatchet did show his feelings better than Brian in the movie because Brian in the book hatchet when he seen the pilot's face in the plane he said he felt like throwing up. In the movie brian just got his head out the water and went back in the water and got the survival pack. In the book Brian really showed how he felt about the divorce Brian in the movie had dreams about it . In the movie
So he falls into despair, which later makes him to try to commit suicide by cutting himself with hatchet. But, he tries to think positive, and tries to adapt himself to his new surroundings. He soon catches a fish, and this was the first foodstuffs to Brian. He meets a lot of wild animals like skunk and moose. But his courageous action leads him to survive.
You can tell he is very cocky and boastful about his basketball playing ability. Also, when Coach Collins goes to visit him to try to get him on the team, he tells Brian that he was out of line for fighting with his players and that he must change his attitude if he wants to join the team. At the first game of the season, coach and the other players see Brian’s selfishness on the court first hand. Brian gets a technical foul and is very disrespectful to the referees, his coach and his teammates. Coach Collins finally meets Brian’s father, and from their conversation after the game, you can see that Brian’s selfish attitude stems from his father, “feeding the monster,” so to speak. After multiple games, it is clear that Brian is losing the team games and his teammates are very frustrated that they are coming together the best they can and all he is thinking about is himself. At practice, coach lets Brian go against the whole team to see what it is like to have no teammates helping him and that helps Brian realize what it’s like to not have any teammates helping him but still doesn’t like the fact that he needs them to win games. After his coach and teammates talk some sense into him, they become one cohesive unit that is motivated to win
When Brian wakes up, he is overcome with dread. His body aches and his mind is cloudy, but he remembers where he is and his instincts take over. He builds a shelter, and as he settles down for the night he realizes that he is not the only one living in the woods. A porcupine comes into his shelter and attacks him in the middle of the night, leaving its quills in his lower leg, and Brian in extreme pain. His experience that night, though it helped him discover how to make a fire, left him scarred and his will broken. On another day, Brian finds a berry bush, and is overjoyed to find such readily available food, until he eats too many of them and finds that they upset his stomach extremely. This demonstrates his trouble finding food and surviving in the woods.
His parents were divorced. It seems that he has the worst family. In fact, he was not lucky. When he got on an airplane to visit his father in Canada, a captain of a small airplane just died because of his sudden cardiac death. Brian is very unlucky to leave alone. But Brian was brave. He mastered everything in the desert island. He really thought about his parents.
Brian had to be able to build with wood in order to survive in the wilderness. On page 124 of the Hatchet book, the text states “He set about improving his shelter by tearing it down. From dead pines up the hill he brought down heavier logs and fastened several of them across the opening, wedging them at the top and burying the bottoms in the sand. Then he wove long branches in through them to make a truly tighty wall and, still not satisfied, he took even thinner branches and wove those into the first weave.” Brian had to use his brains in order to figure out a safe and secure way to build a shelter. Additionally, he also had to build a small place to store food, a bow and arrow, a fish spear, a fish net, etc. All of these things were crucial to his survival, as they kept him protected and fed. The only experience I have had with building is using nails and a hammer to nail a few pieces of plywood together. I definitely would not be able to weave branches together, or even think of that idea. Without being able to build things, I would not have a very good chance of
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.
Main Theme: The story Hatchet’s theme is determination, perseverance and survival. Brian Robeson, whose parents are divorced, flies to visit his father in Canadian wilderness. His pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian managed to land the plane in a lake, and escape unharmed. Now comes the hard part, surviving in the wilderness until rescued. He does have one tool to help him, a hatchet that his mother had given him as a gift. He will have to use it, his own determination, imagination, perseverance and common sense to survive.
He has to find food for himself. He starts out with foraging until he recognizes a need for meat. That is when he decides it is time to hunt. He begins with fish which takes him a while to catch. Eventually though he masters that and moves on to hunting birds. Once again it is quite a struggle for him to figure out but he gets it. Brian’s struggles in hunting represent one of Paulsen’s biggest theme points. Hunting requires both physical and mental strength from Brian. He has to begin with mental strength to learn how to catch prey. Then it takes physical prowess to carry out the
Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) is an unhappy honors student who wishes he could be accepted as a person and not valued just as a brain. Upset over a poor grade in shop, Brian has contemplated suicide rather than live with the ire of his disappointed parents.
Determination is all it takes to keep one on task and to prevent them from becoming discouraged. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, recounts Brian’s struggle to survive in the Canadian Wilderness after he barely escapes with his life from. The story commences with Brian experiencing his pilot suffering a heart attack and dying on his bush plane. With little knowledge of how to fly a plane, With little knowledge of how to fly a plane, Brian crashes into an l-shaped lake and is now alone and in the wild with no food or any plan of survival. Although he may have been impulsive and impatient, this trying experience teaches Brian that by taking control of the situation, he is taking control of his life.
As Brian was flying to his father’s house the pilot started to have a heart attack. Brian had to attempt