The hatchet
The theme of the story Hatchet is determination and survival. Brian Robeson, whose parents are divorced, flies to visit his father who is in the Canadian wilderness. His pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian managed to land the plane in a lake, and escape unharmed. Now there is only one problem and that is surviving in the wilderness until he is finally rescued. He does have one thing to help him, a hatchet that his mother had given him as a gift. He will have to use it, his own determination, imagination, and common sense to survive. This flight to see his father in the Canadian wilderness is Brains first time in an airplane. He explains this to the pilot and tells him that he is scared. The pilot feels sorry for Brian and decides to show him that flying is not very difficult. He lets Brian take the steering control and direct the line of flight for a while. Just when Brian thinks that everything is going well, the pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian knows he must land the plane himself or die. He tries to use the radio but cant get a signal in or reach anybody. He knows that if he hits the trees he will probably die, so he decides to land in the water of a lake. When the plane is in the water, he
I did not like the ending, it was unrealistic to have a tornado go through and all of a sudden, the tail of the plane is sticking out of the water. One day a tornado went through the area. The pilot still decides to teach the boy a thing or two about flying. He threw his hatchet, and when it hit the rock of the cave instead of the porcupine, it made a spark. A person who likes scouting and the outdoors would probably like the book. He filled his windbreaker with cherries to eat later and then managed to find a cave for shelter. He was very proud of himself when he was able to use it to catch fish, or shoot a bird. He could even try diving over and over again to get back into the plane for the survival pack that he may remember was there. The bear only looked at Brian and then left. When he finally got back on dry land, he found that the pack contained food, knife, rifle, and C. It was then that Brian remembered that the plane contained a survival pack. It moved the plane so that the tail was now sticking out of the water. He then rides everything out and it ends up to be pretty good for him. He discovered it by mistake when a porcupine wandered into his cave! It was dark in the cave and he heard something moving. He would hunt them down and cook them over his fire.
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