Diary Of Hatchet-By Gary Paulsen

Term Paper Title	Diary Of Hatchet-By Gary Paulsen
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Diary of Hatchet-By Gary Paulsen

H A T C H E T
By Gary Paulsen

10/01
Brian Robeson, the main character, is a very interesting kid.  After the first few pages you could tell that he was strong-minded, twelve or thirteen year old kid.  His parents were divorced and he spent some time with his dad.  He lived far away so Brian had to take a plane.  From the back of the book I knew that he gets in to a plane accident and has to survive on his own.  I was surprised that the author went right to the plane wreck.  I thought it would have a somewhat boring beginning like most other books I read. Brian keeps talking about how his parents got divorced and he cries every time he thinks about it.  He calls it the big "secret."  Brian keeps describing visions of his mom kissing some new man, not his father.  You can tell that he takes the divorce very seriously and sometimes gets emotional.
10/05
     In this part of the book, Jake, the pilot, has a heart attack and dies.  To be honest, I, myself, have thought about what I would do if I was on plane and the pilot died.  I really don�t know what I would do, I don�t know how to fly a plane.  Luckily, Brian had been taught by Jake how to fly the plane.  Brian didn�t know how to land so he flew the plane into a lake.  This part of the book was hard to believe, there was a lot of "coincidents."  Brian showed his intellectual side when he realized that when Jake was suffering from his heart attack he turned the plane to the left.  That could greatly increase the time it would take for a search party to find him.  I have to admit, so far this is one of the best opening parts I have ever read.  No dull pages.
10/08
     After Brian crashed he was hurt pretty badly.  He ad no energy so he just slept on the shore.  I consider him very luckily that he did not blow up or something.  After awhile he was extremely hungry.  He found a gut cherry bush.   He ate so many he threw up.  This is another part that seems strange to me, I mean I wouldn�t have clue to know how to survive in a deserted place.  However, Brian did.  He had seen some TV show about how to live in the wilderness.  He wove together sticks to make a door for the cave he found.  He tried to make a fire but he failed.  Brian already got in some trouble with the wildlife, a bear chased him.  I am glad that I have never had to go through what Brian is going through.  It would seem impossible for me to live in the woods.
10/12
     Brian was very cold.  He couldn�t figure out how to make a fire.  There was a small animal in his cave and he through his knife that his mother gave him before he left at it and he hit the wall, it made a shower of sparks.  This is where Brian�s wit came into play.  He put two and two together and used the sparks to make ...

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