Hatchet Summary

In the book Hatchet our main character is Brian and he was in a car going to the airport.In the car going there his mom gives him a hatchet because the plane that he is going on is going to the airport where his dad is going to pick him up.When he gets to the plane he see’s that it is a small bush plane and the driver tells him to get on.They are in the plane for a long time and no one talks till the driver lets him fly the plane for a little bit then the pilot has a heart attack and dies.He is frozen in fear for a long time then he tries to contact the airport then the connection fails.The plane then runs out of fuel and crashes in a lake despite his efforts to stop it.When the plane hit the lake he was stuck in the plane for a little bit because his seat belt was stuck then he swam up and rested at the shore.after a few days he eats berries and builds a shelter.He them gets hurt from the berries because they were poisonous.he finds new berries that are not poisonous and he finds a bear by them and the bear does not attack him then he walks away from the bear.Then a porcupine

attacks him at night and when he was fighting the porcupine he throw his hatchet and misses and he hits a rock and it made sparks then the porcupine runs away then he goes back to sleep then he makes a spear for fishing.He then saw a plane flying overhead and it flies away.He then makes a bow and starts to catch a lot of fish and starts to hunt birds.After thinking how the porcupine was so easily able to get into his shelter he makes his shelter stronger.Then he gets some of the turtle eggs he found stolen from a skunk and then gets attacked by a moose.Then a tornado comes and destroys his shelter.Then he notices that there is something that is poking out of the water it is the plane.He cuts the top of the plane open and gets the survival pack inside of the plane.The survival pack had a sleeping bag ,food packs ,a compass ,cooking tools ,matches, bandages, a rifle, and a transmitter.He turns it on and nothing happens so he thinks it broke or something from the plane crash.He goes to sleep then in the morning wall he is preparing his meal a plane lands by him and he is rescued.

The message of this book is never give up.I think this because at the start he was getting bit by bugs and almost died but did not give up.He could of given up when the plane went over and he thought there was no way he was going to get rescued.He could of given up on trying to crash into a lake.He could of just given up on survival and died.That is why I think that the message is never give up.

I think that the book was very well written because it really showed the danger that he was in.It was specific about everything.It was very in depth about the personality of Brian.It described the things very well and also it was easy to follow the story.It really showed the danger that he was in.Like at the start of the book when he was in the air plane and the pilot had a heart attack it was realistic because it said he was frozen with fear.In a normal situation people would be frozen with

fear.