Hard Live In The Wild Analysis

Is it that hard living in the wilderness by yourself surrounded by animals that are looking to do anything to survive? You may not have the experience to answer this question, but the answer is yes as it's portrayed in the books "Hatchet" and "Julie of the Woods." Both the characters are struggling because the author lets you see that it really is hard living in the wild alone. First, in "Hatchet," Brian is a kid who is stranded in the wilderness alone and has trouble as wild animals are ruining his attempt to stay alive. In "Julie of the Woods," Miyax is stuck in the North Slope of Alaska trying to get a pack of wolves to help her find food but is struggling. Both characters are likely to make many mistakes because living in the wild for the

first time is hard. These descriptions of the excerpts can give you an idea of how the characters feel while they encounter their problems and how they fix them or don't fix them. In other words,  with the excerpts from "Julie of the Woods" and "Hatchet," each character's feelings can be portrayed by using their character traits that are supported in the text.
One way Miyax is portrayed is frightened.

This is proven in the excerpt of "Julie in the Woods" as it states, "Her hands trembled and her heartbeat quickened, for she was frightened, not so much of the wolves, who were shy and many harpoon-shots away but became of her desperate predicament." Miyax is frightened as she has no idea what she will do next in order to survive. Another way to portray Miyax is desperate. In the excerpt "Julie of the Woods," it states, "Miyax stared hard at the regal black wolf, hoping to catch his eye. She must somehow tell him that she was starving and ask him for food." This portrays her as desperate because she doesn't know how to speak to wolves and convince them, so she is using methods she used with different animals to make the wolves assist her. Both of the traits make you able to imagine Miyax as a

person.
Brian also has character traits, one being he is creative.

In the excerpt of "Hatchet," it states, "A ladder, of course. He needed a ladder. But he had no way to fashion one, nothing to hold the steps on, and that stopped him until he found a dead pine with many small branches still sticking out. Using his hatchet, he chopped the branches off so they stuck out four or five inches, all up along the log, then he cut the log off about ten feet long and dragged it down to his shelter. It was a little heavy, but dry and he could manage it, and when he propped it up he found he could climb to the ledge with ease, though the tree did roll from side to side a bit as he climbed." Although he was stuck with nothing to help him reach the small ledge, he used the nature around him to build something to climb up to the ledge. Brian also is portrayed as lazy. In the excerpt of "Hatchet," it states, "The basic idea had been good, the place for his shelter was right, but he just hadn't gone far enough. He'd been lazy, but now he knew the second most important thing about nature, what drives nature. The food was first, but the work for the food went on and on. Nothing in nature was lazy. He had tried to take a shortcut and paid for it with his turtle eggs, which he had come to like more than chicken eggs from the store." Brian is lazy as he doesn't try his best and it cost him with the food that he found which got taken away from him. These two traits can also help you portray

Brian.
So, now that the character has been portrayed with character traits, the question given at the beginning has been answered and it helps to portray how hard it's living alone in the wilderness with scarce food/water and there are animals around you also trying to stay alive. I used the character traits frightened and desperate for Miyax. Those two traits are important because they can lead you to believe that Miyax isn't very brave which shows that her experience in the wilderness is little to nothing. The character traits for Brian I used were creative and lazy. These traits portray Brian as being an intelligent person but he doesn't use it to his advantage as he doesn't try hard enough which is where his laziness comes into play. This can help you learn more about the character without the author specifically telling you. To sum it up, having evidence and factual information can help you use character traits to find out about the character.