My Ins On Hatchet Book Report

This is my INS on Hatchet. The book was written by Gary Paulsen the author that also wrote previous book I did an INS on. The book is set in the Canadian woods. I'm not sure what time period this book takes place in because it doesn't say in the book. I'm guessing somewhere in the 1980's or 90's. Now I will summarize the story of this book. The story is about Brian Robeson, a 13 year old boy who is going to visit his dad in Canada after his parents' divorce. He goes from Hampton, New York to Canada on a small plane. The driver has a heart attack and dies. Brian takes over the controls and crashes into the woods. Brian is now stranded all by himself in these woods. He thinks that he will be rescued, but that doesn’t end up happening. He finds berries and other types of foods and uses those to eat. Skip all the way to the end and a tornado strikes his area and destroys his shelter. After that, he notices that the tail of the plane has emerged and he goes into it and gets the survival pack. In it, he finds a transmitter and it calls a rescue helicopter thing to him. He then gets rescued. That is pretty much bigger main parts of the book. I chose this book for INS because I said that there are some similar things about this book and the one I did previously and that interested me so I decided to do this book for my ins. I also wanted to read this book again because I forgot some of the stuff that happens throughout the book.
I would say that the theme of this book is survival.
The whole plot is just Brian tries to survive in the wilderness. It is very prominent in this book. Another theme is boy vs nature. It is similar to survival. Brian has to go against nature to survive. For example, he had to go against a tornado at the end. The way that he resolves the conflicts is he makes shelter and he just does whatever he can to survive. He ends up finding a transmitter and he gets rescued too. T hat is pretty much how the conflict gets resolved in the
end.

This story is told in the 3rd person but it also is the 1st person because the story is told through Brian's thoughts for most of the book. For example, you get to learn more about Brian's past through his thoughts like how his teacher told him to always stay positive and to always stay motivated. You get to learn about a lot through his perspective. Everything else is in the 3rd person though.

I think that what Brian did throughout the book was smart throughout. I thought that he made good decisions, especially in a situation like the one he was in where he was alone in the Canadian wilderness all by himself. I was pretty happy with the way he resolved his conflicts. He was brave enough to go underwater to get the survival kit while, having to see some messed up stuff like the dead body of the pilot on the plane he was on. If I was in that situation, I would`ve tried to do that too, because I would not want to be in a situation where I was stranded for any longer. I would do anything to get rescued.

The one connection I made was not from a book, but from a movie. I made a lot of connections to the movie Castaway. The whole 1 man stranded theme of the 2 stories and how the 2 main characters of the 2 stories had to survive by finding food, making shelter and how both characters end up getting rescued in the end. The movie castaway was the biggest connection I could make even though I guess I cheated by picking a movie instead of a book.