40 Book Challenge 12/01/14

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Prompt: 

-Write a summary on the book.

-List the personality/characteristics of the main character (feelings, interests, behaviors, etc.)

Pages: FINISHED BOOK

*WARNING SPOILER IN PARAGRAPH 3*

     The main character, Brian Robeson was on his way to visit his dad, but the the pilot had a heart attack while flying the plane! The pilot died, and the plane collided into the Canadian forest and Brian was all ALONE. He was there in the forest with a Windbreaker and a Hatchet nothing else. One thing that was killing him was the divorce between his mom and dad, it was the Secret, he was filled with anguish because of what happened between his parents. He must find a way to survive alone, he does not know how much time he has...

    Brian at first tends to be very, babyish and weak and scared. The way he reacted at first with landing. His behavior was "I'm done, I'm going to die."Very negative based on what had happened, he didn't think of later, what to do to live and survive. He would just give up and lie on the ground crying. I know I'm kind of sounding harsh but he was just doing nothing to help himself. It states in the book, "He was there lying in the soft, moist sand being eaten alive by mosquitoes. He then fi
nally cried himself to sleep."

     Like every character in a book Brian developed. Towards the end of the book he developed a mind that helped him live in this harsh environment by himself. He also had background information on the forest and how to survive. In the book it kept going back to how before all this happened he would watch nature shoes and read books about nature. It's good to have some background knowledge. He stayed positive. When you stay positive, positive things will come to you. He then found eggs to eat, he got lots of fish, and he then got rescued just by surviving and staying positive. All you need to survive is to be positive and knowledge, oh and a hatchet!

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