Essays on Hatchet

Imagine the feeling of being completely alone where no one can hear your cries for help, where no one can see you or begin to understand your pain, and where your once perfect and happy life is suddenly crumbling apart. Welcome to Brain’s world, a thirteen year old boy who’s parents are going through a bad divorce that ultimately causes him to resent his mother for being deceitful to his own father. The story “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen is about a young teenage boy that is constantly feeling the ...

I chose a fire, a hatchet, and woods to represent the book, “Hatchet”, because he was lost in the woods, his hatchet was his main tool, and he learned how to build a fire for survival. Brian is a hero in Hatchet because once Brian is alone in the wilderness and can only depend upon his own resourcefulness to survive, he must learn to hunt for food. He is also a hero because he grows over his expectations. He has to build a shelter on his own. He does not always get these things right on the ...

Hatchet is about a 13 year old boy named Brian who has divorced parents and is visiting his dad for the summer, but to visit his dad he takes an old Cessna 406 bush plane, these planes are small and can only fit 12 people. During the flight the pilot has a heart attack, and with no one to fly the plane, Brian crash lands in a canadian forest. With no help Brian must adapt to his living state and survive until help comes. One theme or message in the story “Hatchet” is that in life there are ...

Gary Paulsen message for the readers is to change and adapt. He changed Brian's perspective through out the novel regarding the wilderness. At the start of the story we see Brian's plane crashed into the Canadian woods. Initially, perhaps due to his parent's divorce we see, Brian sad and obviously scarred because of the plane crash. He is lost and lonely which are the key factors to his trauma. He, at first, hears silence and then learns to identify the sounds of animals and other creatures in ...

The book Hatchet, is about a typical 13 year old boy, whose parents are divorced. He tries to cope with his parents divorce but it is hard for him. He is not happy about his mother's new boyfriend either. Brian is very excited to go and visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. But the only problem is, he has to fly there. He is scared of flying, but he goes anyway. Brian's mother drove him to the airport. In the car, she gave him a hatchet and told him to put it in his belt buckle. ...

“The Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen tells the story of a young boy who got stranded in the Canadian wilderness, and how he survived. It all started after Brian’s parents got divorced. That summer Brian went to see his father in the oil fields of the Yukon. That day his mother sent him on a small plane piloted by a friend of his father. Brian took his pocket knife, clothes, and most important a hatchet that his father gave him. After the plane took off, the pilot let Brian fly the plane and showed ...