Character Sketch Of Sahanator In Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

Sahanator is a 13 year old boy who is half German and half Korean. He has long blue and red hair with blue brown eyes. He is 170cm and he weighs 50kg. He prefers to wear a suit and a cologne. He is a bit different compared to his classmates. He is rather quiet and he is very careful about what he says and what he does. He is quite brave and he never gives up. He always tells to himself, ‘Don’t start something you can’t finish’. He does like music and sports. He learned how to protect himself. He enjoy reading books and watching adventurous, action and horror films.

He has 1 younger sister and 1 younger brother. He lives with his father in Munich, Germany and with his mother in Seoul, Korea. His parents live separately because of their jobs.
Sahanator stays half of the year with his father and the other half with his mother.

Sahanator is going to Germany.
His mother packs him some food and clothes and money for him to spend in the airport. Sahanator goes to the airport by a taxi. He has to go to America first to meet his friend, Alexi. When he arrives, his friends was waiting for him. Sahanator is going to stay with his friend for 2 weeks. While he was with his friend, they read a book called Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. They thought about if they were in this situation what they would do. Sahanator like always takes in calm and thoughtful as he usually never changes his emotion. He says that only take what you need and always stay calm.

It is time for Sahanator to go to Germany. He gets on the plane and waits for the plane to take off. He listens to the boring announcement about safety issues. He wonders how boring it is to listen to this all the time since he looks like he is about to fall asleep soon. He usually sleeps in the plane.

He slept for a while and he woke up when he heard people shouting. He stood up and saw that the pilot lost control of the plane. Sahanator stayed calm and looked outside. He figured out they were flying above the ocean. He got an emergency boat and waited for it to get near the water. He tried to tell people to stay calm but they were all going
chaos.

He waited for the right moment. He threw that boat out and jumped out of the plane. He was underwater and he swam up and reached to the boat. He only has few matches, a knife, blanket, clothes and 3 water bottles. He was very lucky that the blanket or his spare clothes weren’t wet. He took of his shirt and his pants so that he doesn’t get more cold. He looks into the ocean. No plane, no one and nothing. He was all by himself in the middle of the ocean.