Hachet by Gary Paulsen

Hatchet is a really good book. I would recommend it to anyone. Hatchet was about a boy named Brian. He lived in the city, and his parents were divorced. Brian went on a small airplane, a Cessna 406-a bush plane, to go spend the summer with his father. He had no idea that his life will never be the same. His father lived in the oil fields in Canada. The pilot had a heart attack and died. Brian was the only one alive in the airplane. He had to fly the plane, and kept flying it until it ran out of fuel. Brian crashed the plane into a lake.

Brian almost died on impact to the water, but he managed to get out of the plane and he swam to shore. He was alone in the wilderness, and had no one to help him. All he had left besides the clothes he was wearing was a hatchet. That hatchet was helpful many times as he used it to make fire and many other things; that is why the title is “Hatchet.” Brain had no food or shelter. He had to fight the wilderness to survive.

Brian was very mad at his mother because she was having an affair. He didn’t know how to deal with it and he was holding it inside of himself. Brian had no time for anger, self-pity, or despair. It took all of him and determination, and courage to survive.

Brian learned how to gather berries, hunt rabbits and birds, and spear fish to eat. He had to hunt for his food. He made himself a shelter that he slept in. Brian had to protect himself against mosquitoes, flies, bears, and moose. He learned how to live with �mother’ nature. One night while Brian was sleeping a porcupine got in his shelter and stabbed Brian in the leg with its quills.

There was a tornado that destroyed Brian's shelter and scattered every thing he owned, but it brought the crashed plane to the surface of the lake. He swam over to the crashed airplane, and was able to recover the survival pack from the plane. The survival pack was a good discovery. It turned out to be his good fortune as it had: food, a rifle, a sleeping bag, a cook set, a knife, an emergency transmitter, and a first aid kit.

Brian took all of the survival supplies out of the survival pack. While Brian was fixing himself food that he had gotten out of the survival pack, he tried to figure out how the emergency transmitter worked by moving the switch up and down. Brian thought