Hatchet Book Report

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We have all at one point made jokes and laughed about being stranded of trapped. But what if you were trapped, alone, no shelter, no food or drinks, just you and the clothes on your back, maybe lucky enough to have some type of weapon. What if it actually happened to you? That was the case for Brian Robeson, in the book Hatchet. For 54 days, 54 day, Brian Robeson had been stranded in the Canadian wilderness. He had nothing, but him, the clothes on his back, and the hatchet.
Brian had come a long way, he learned so much while he was on the island. He not only used the skills he learned and practiced everyday, but he used what he had learned and remembered from the past. In chapter 14, the text states,” His mother had left some salmon out by mistake one time when they went on an overnight trip to Cape Hesper to visit relatives and when they got the smell filled the …show more content…
But, that doesn’t mean there weren’t any memories that haunted him, that angered him.. Take “The Secret” for example, in chapter 6, the book says “At home at one or two his mother would be putting away the lunch dishes and getting ready for her exercises class. No, that would have been yesterday. Today she would be going to see him. Today was Thursday and she always went to see him on Thursdays. Wednesday was the exercise class and Thursdays she went to see him. Hot little jets of hate worked into his thoughts, pushed once, moved back. If his mother hadn’t begun to see him and forced the divorce, Brian wouldn’t be here.” Brian was trying to sleep, but soon enough “the secret” popped into head. He hated it, and was furious. He tried really hard to get the thoughts of the secret out of his head, but sometimes it just stayed, makin Brian frustrated and angry, maybe even a little depressed. It didn’t help at all that these thoughts just lingered in his hours, it made things worse. It only distracted him from what needed to be

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