Book Report Hatchet

Hatchet is a book written by Gary Paulsen and is a fictional novel about a boy lost in the Canadian woods. This story is about a boy in the Canadian woods that is dealing with the struggles of divorce where he will experience what it is like to be alone. He will come to find that there are some problems to face along the way. Brian will come to find out that the Canadian woods is a very dangerous place for a lost boy. Brian knows that finding the right foods and protection could be very crucial.
The setting of Hatchet is in the Canadian woods during the summer. The important characters in the book are, Brian he is a protagonist character who is also a dynamic character and a round character. He finds a change in himself because in the beginning
Brian gets to the airport to meet the bush plane and after a while in the plane, the pilot has a heart attack and dies. After that tragic event, Brian crash lands into a lake and swims to a nearby bank. Later on in the book, Brain builds a nice shelter and wonders how he is going to get food. After hours of searching, Brian finds a patch of berries and he begins to eat them very quickly and they make him really sick. He knows he can’t live without a fire so he ventures out for wood and chops it into to logs with his hatchet and builds a fire. A noise wakes Brian up and in the morning he finds out that it was a turtle laying eggs which he comes to the conclusion that the eggs are a nice source of food. He decides that eggs are not going to be enough so Brian makes a bow and a spear to catch fish with. As he is trying to catch fish, a plane flies over his head but the pilot does not see him so he falls into the depths of hopelessness and his suicide attempt shows his emotional state. Brian makes mental notes of what he has killed for food and calls them days. For example, one of his mental notes is “Rabbit Day.” The next day, Brian had just killed some foolbirds and is washing his hands in the lake when he hears the sound of something