Stuck In The Wilderness

 Last term I worked on a recount about Hatchet the book. I think that Hatchet is inspiring and excited, I don't think there was a time I was thinking ' ugh I don't want to read this' I enjoyed reading this and wish to read it again.

                       Hatchet Novel Response:  Name: Summer Term 1 2022    

  

This story is about Brian Robenson and the pilot of a little bush plane crashing into the Canadian bush.The pilot had a heart attack while they were flying, leaving Brian to fight the plane in order to keep it up.When they hit the ground with force it left Brian to fend for himself for almost a year. All he had was a hatchet that his mother had given him and the dreadful secret from his mother and fathers divorce.

I think the author's message is about not giving up no matter how big or how small you are, you can do anything you put your mind to. The author displayed Brain in the woods alone for almost a year, all he had was one little hatchet that his mother had given  him. He had no Idea what he was doing. With hunting or fishing, he didn’t know how to do anything, yet with that one little hatchet he had made a difference. He learnt how to fish and hunt, he learnt how to make a bow and arrow and he learnt how to make a spear. With that one little hatchet he had built himself a shelter to keep him safe.Brain had been changed while he was in the woods. Even though he was attacked by a moose and hit by a tornado he still managed to rebuild and carry on.

Brain no longer had a television or a cellphone. He had learnt so many things while he was there. It says in the book that Brian had remembered things from school, things like how to make a fire and how to hunt. Brain also remembered that there was a survival pack inside the little plane. While Brian was in the middle of hacking away at the plane he had  dropped his hatchet in the water. He had no idea how deep the water was, he was so mad at himself that he had dropped it. However Brian kept going up and down, from the surface to the bottom of the lake. Just as Brian’s lungs were about to burst he felt the rubber handle to the hatchet and he grabbed it and hit the surface. That goes to show that Brian never gave up.

To summarize the story I would say that Gary Paulson was very smart to send that kind of message to kids my age, as well as adults. It shows that even though Brian was only thirteen he was still able to  build  a shelter and catch fish not to mention he was able to hunt. He was able to survive and live his life in the wild. Through all the pain that he felt after the crash and the moose attack. He was ready to fight for his life. Even if the story is not real I  look up to Brian Robenson.

 

My favorite part of the book is when Brian built a shelter and hunted fool birds, turns out they really are fool birds. I also like when Brian figures out that water bends light so when he was missing the fish it was because he had to aim lower and from then on Brian caught piles of fish. I love this story and I’m so glad Gary Paulson wrote it.