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Hatchet

 

            
             Thirteen year old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when his single engine airplane in which he is in crashes. This is the story line in the book called Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, a Newbery Honor Book. In the novel Hatchet, Brian Robeson shows that he is courageous, determined and hungry. .
             Brian Robeson first shows his courage by landing an airplane that he doesn't know how to fly and is out of fuel. He ends up crashing the plane into a lake shaped like an "L"! It takes a lot of courage to put your hands on the wheel of an airplane! In the book, he knew "When the plane runs out of gas he should hold the nose down and head for the nearest lake and try to fly the plane kind of onto the water. That's how he thought of it." .
             Determination in my words means, "persistence". Brian shows an example of determination when he lands the plane with a will to survive. He shows more determination when he tried to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together for ten minutes. It did not work but tried anyway. Once he got a fire started (by throwing his hatchet at a wall and making sparks), he showed determination by keeping it lit for extremely long periods of time. He even had to get up at night to put more firewood on the fire so it would not go out. He found the fire as a new friend. Overall, he was determined to stay alive in the wilderness until he was rescued.
             The day after the crash, Brian finds himself excruciatingly hungry. He finds a kind of berry that he calls "gut berries" and eats too much of them. That night, he pukes and has the squirts. He doesn't feel too good. The moral of that part of the story is; too much of a good thing can be bad! He soon makes a spear to fish with and uses it for a couple of days with no luck. Then he remembers that water bends light. So he aims a couple of inches above the fishes and gets his share. He takes his spear and uses it to kill "fool birds" (he calls them that because of their stupidity in which they jump up a few feet away from him).


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