Essay On Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

Most people hear about sudden plane crashes or news about people lost at sea and believe it’s all for attention and money. But, whenever reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, your thoughts might change traumatically and think about reality a little bit better than before. In this adventurous book a boy named Brian Roberson gets caught in the middle of a plane crash, landing somewhere in the extensive woods of the Canadian forest, due to the sudden heart attack of the only pilot on the plane. Brian is left with nothing except the Hatchet his mother gave him and the many remnants of his windbreaker. Though he experiences major hardships, Brian still manages to survive in the dangerous, large forest by reflecting on his previous knowledge. As I go back and read over all the extraordinary things Brian achieved and all of the things he could do that I couldn’t, I came to the results that I wouldn’t be able to survive in the forest for over 54 days. The first reason why I could not survive in the wilderness is because, whenever the tornado hit, which made the plane switch positions, he was able to hold his breath for an extended period of time and was able to handle the pressure that came with it, whenever he had to swim and retrieve pieces of
Brian was exposed to almost every kind of diseases and obstacles that would eventually kill a human, but he fought through each and every one of them trying to ensure his safety while he was at the ripe, adolescent age of 13. In conclusion, I truly believe that my mind and body could not endure the pain that Brian went through, and a spark of hope in me wishes that every word, sentence, paragraph, or page in between the front and back cover of this book Hatchet, never will be relatable to you or to