Why Did Brian Survive The Hatchet

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Out of all the things that could happen to you in your lifetime, would you ever think that you could be trapped in the wilderness for over 54 days? For Brian Robeson, this accident happened to him. This is the main premise, of Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. Throughout the book, Brian learned many things that would help him survive. In the terms of “Signpost”, these moments were called “Aha Moments”. In this essay, I will be going over two of the biggest “Aha Moments”, that helped Brian survive the long 3 months that he was trapped in the Canadian Wilderness. In the eighth chapter, Brian figured out something very important about his hatchet. After an incident involving a porcupine, Brian threw his hatchet at the stone wall of his shelter,
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