Hatchet Book Report

There are many things that one can learn from the book Hatchet. While on his way to meet his father for Summer vacation at the oil grounds in Canada, Brian Robinson finds himself stranded within the Canadian northern Wilderness. The plane he’s flying in crashes when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. Over the period of the summer Brian is determined to survive and hopes that someone will come looking for him before it becomes too late. Brian’s parents’ recently divorced leaving him to live with his mother in New York. His father’s job assigned him to work in Canada at the oil grounds. Brian’s mother cheated on his father which caused the divorce. His parents agreed that he would visit his father during the summer, forcing him to go against his will. His mother gave him a hatchet which was intended to be used with his father at work. After his plane crashes his thoughts reflect back to advice he received from his teacher, Mr.Perpich. He’d told Brian, “The only person you can count on is yourself.” This became his motivation for survival. Brian needed to make himself a shelter, so he found a cave and made a door so he would be safe at night. He needed to make a fire to keep himself warm inside the cave, so he took his hatchet out to the woods where he gathered rocks, wood, and moss. Once back
He’d found turtle eggs and buried them so he could eat them later. Then a raccoon found them and ate them causing him to resort to catching and eating fish. Before building the fire, he got poked by a porcupine. That made him have to learn how to take out the quills so he wouldn’t get an infection. Eventually he makes his way back to where the plane crashed and discovers a survival pack, .22 rifle, and a transmitter. He attempts to make a distress call with the transmitter but thinks it’s broken since he doesn’t know how to use it. A passing plane hears his distress call and rescues