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).
He hustles out of the plane with his hatchet at his side and swims to the shore. Brian uses his hatchet to make a shelter and weapons. ... After he builds the shelter, Brian uses his hatchet to make spears and arrows out of branches. ... Brian makes the fire with his hatchet and a rock. ... After that he takes his hatchet and cuts really small pieces of bark. ...
Lord of the Flies can be compared to books like Alive and Hatchet. Hatchet is a story about a kid named Brian and his fight for survival on an island all alone, unlike the children on the Lord of the Flies, Brian learns from his mistakes and makes a better life for himself. ...
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father in a small single engine plane when suddenly the pilot has a heart attack. Not knowing if the pilot is dead Brian continues to fly the plane. Soon after that the plane runs out of fuel and crashes in the middle of a lake somewher...
You were flying along in the plane, you get bad turbulence, and crash Yes, yes, we've heard this story line before, a particularly good one I recall was The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. ... Brian survived the wreck with only his hatchet. ... He used his hatchet to make spears, and also a bow and arrows. ... They both land with items, in Brian's case only with his hatchet, and the they both use them to survive. ...
Whereas, The Hatchet helps edify know-how, determination, and more courage than the main character possessed to survive. ... Contrarily, The Hatchet the story of a lone survivor of the crash of a single engine plane in the Canadian Wilderness, for forty-five days, Brian Robseson is alone with nothing but his hatchet that was given to him as a gift from his mother before leaving on his trip to Canada. ... The hatchet is key to Brian's survival on the lake. ... He has no food and the only thing that he can use as a tool is a Hatchet that his mother gave to him before he left. ... The ...
Kiowa's old hunting hatchet, given to him by his grandfather, not only serves as a useful day to day tool but it also serves as a reminder to who he is and to where he come from and the family he left behind. Just like the hatchet, Kiowa's bible is also a multi functional weapon against the battle of homesickness, it serves as a reminder of his father, the familiar smell of the pages and the leather soothes him and gives him relief from the stresses of the war. ... He uses his Native traditions in order to battle the Vietcong and he uses his Bible, moccasins, and hatchet to battle th...
One policeman reported that the murder weapon or hatchet had been "dropped in ashes and tossed in a box and had fine dust on it"(Crime Library). The prosecutor also claimed that the hatchet was washed thoroughly to get all the blood off, then the handle was deliberately broken. There were no traces of blood found at all on the hatchet. ... The prosecution says that the broken hatchet may have been the weapon, but there is no physical evidence that Lizzie even touched the axe. ...
A small hatchet and a Swiss army knife will play a major role in helping to create shelter as well as catching food. ... Wild animals on the island can be killed using the hatchet and cleaned using the Swiss army knife. ...