Hatchet, Island Of The Blue Dolphins

Life Changing Experiences When you're reading a story do you ever wonder who and why they wrote it? In the stories ’’Hatchet, Island of the Blue Dolphins,and The father of Chinese Aviation’’ contains people that have survived or have had life changing experiences. In these stories it explains a part of Karana, Brian, and Feng Ru’s life changing experiences that they faced. To begin, in Island of the Blue Dolphins Karana’s life was changed when she was abandoned by her tribe and left with her brother to survive deserted on an island. Karana’s brother Romo was killed by a wild pack of dogs and now Karana must survive on her own. The story starts out when Karana is walking along a trail and then she sees the pack leader of the dogs with a broken arrow in it. This leads us to believe that Karana shot the dog because she was taking anger out since the dog had signaled the pack to kill her brother. After that Karana realizes she can not shoot the dog again and kill it unless it was affecting her survival. In the text it says ‘’I was used to animals playing dead until they suddenly turned on you or ran away’’. But since he was lying there suffering and did not have a chance to run away, she did not
Brian is thirteen years old and had to live in the Canadian wilderness all alone. Brians plane crashed into a lake on his way to his father's house when the pilot had a heartattack. Although Brian had saved himself by swimming to shore, he now was alone and stranded with no one to call or to help him figure out what to do. In paragraph six it consists of a single four-word sentence fragment it says ‘’And there came hunger.’’ I think that Gary Paulsen includes these four words to make a statement as if he had wanted to make sure the readers understood Brain doesn't understand how to live in the wild and is facing a moment of hunger and will starve to death if he doesn't figure out how to retrieve food and