Sunday, March 11, 2007


there is a book that I like to tell you about and that is called Hatcher. I really like this book because it is about adventures.

In Hatchet, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness. The bush-pilot of a Cessna 406, in which he is traveling to visit his father in the Canadian oil fields, the pilot suffers a fatal heart attack, and Brian must crash-land the plane. The plane sinks in a remote lake, and Brian is left with only his clothes, along with a time-tested hatchet his mother has given him; his only survival tool.

Brian figures out how to make fire by striking the blade of the hatchet on a rock, which is later revealed to be flint. He forces himself to eat whatever food he can find, such as turtle eggs. He deals with a porcupine, bear, skunk, moose, and a tornado (spoiler for this book because it is not on the back of the original book). He eventually becomes quite a craftsman, crafting a bow and arrows to hunt birds and fishing with a spear.

During his isolation, Brian reflects on his parents' recent divorce, and the dark secret only he knows: his mother was having an affair with another man.

Brian was saved when a violent storm hits the woods, tossing the plane wreckage to the surface. Brian breaks into the plane and recovers the plane's survival pack, which contains an emergency transmitter. Brian activates the transmitter, and is rescued by a fur trader who came in a water plane. However, in an alternate sequel, Brian's Winter, the novel supposedly ends with having Brian not yet rescued, and with winter looming ahead. In Brian's Winter, the only change to the story was that Brian did not activate the emergency transmitter in the plane, which causes him to not be rescued.

Taken from wikipedia

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