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Hatchet
Written by : Andrew Eshak
Author of the book : Gary Paulsen
Genre : Fiction
Date of publication of the book:1987
Date of publication of sudy guide: 8/10/2010
Summary
Chapter 1: We get introduced to Brian who has to go to Canada in a Cessna 406 for the first time. He was mostly calm during the trip because he was thinking of his mother when she got divorced and when she gave him a hatchet before he went to the plane except when the pilot taught him how to steer a plane and the pilot starts releasing gas then he felt a pain in his left chest which was a heart attack and the pilot at the end either died or was unconscious .
Chapter 2: After he finds out about the pilot he tried to talk to the guy in the radio but it wasn’t clear so he tried to fly a plane but at the end he thought of the idea of what is going to happen if the plane ran out of fuel and he tried to prepare himself to the hit at the end of this chapter the nose dropped down and he threw up.
Chapter 3: The plane land in the forest and hits a lot of trees until the wings fall down and then the plane falls in a small lake and Brian was in there and he finally released himself from the seatbelt and arrives at the edge of the lake and he feels happy that he found the grass . He slept because he was so tired and it was evening .
Chapter 4: He woke up at the beginning of the day when the sky was gray . A lot of mosquitoes came to use him as a free breakfast .after few seconds mosquitoes disappeared because the sun was warm and he saw trees ,birds and noises that he wasn’t used to except in the TV because he lived in New York city and he was used to the traffic not to the green life and he saw a beaver which was really cool for him but since every part of his body was hurting him he couldn’t stand so he sat down and slept again .
Chapter 5: He woke up at noon because he was thirsty and he wanted to drink from the lake because of the dead body of the pilot but finally he drank because he was so thirsty. His mind began to work and he began thinking about the crash and he thought that when a plane crashes searchers come looking for it and that might be the same thing that will happen with him . He got so hungry but he stayed until night . At night an idea came to him of the hunting animal that might be looking for a prey like him so he kept his hand over his hatchet.
Chapter 6: In the morning, he felt hungry and he began thinking of his home and his friend Terry then he got an idea of looking from a shelter from sticks but first he had to discover the place and he was lucky that he found something like a small cave formed by glaciers some he rested under it for sometime then he went to look for food and he found berries that didn’t really taste that god but he ate because he was hungry and he brang some to his shelter and at the end of the chapter he made a smaller doorway to protect himself from the hungry animals of night .
Chapter 7 : Brian woke up from his sleep from pain because he ate too much of the not sweet cherries but he went to sleep remembering the secret . He woke up with the last group of mosquitoes. He thought that he had to look for another type of food and he found sweet raspberries. While he was picking the raspberries a bear just stood behind him which made him scared but the bear ignored him and went to his shelter when it started raining and slept.
Chapter 8 : He woke up because of the sound of the wind and he started hearing some slithering then something hurt his feet and when he kicked it ,it went out of the shelter but it left quills on his feet so he had to get them out then he slept and he had a weird dream about his friend Terry showing him a fire and when he woke up he found that when he threw the hatchet , it made sparks which can make a fire so he threw it over and over .
Chapter 9: Brian tried to make a spark using grass and sticks but it didn’t work. He used sparks but the first time didn’t work. At the second time it worked because he bellowed and he started getting sticks to feed the fire.
Chapter 10: Brian was so happy about the fire . He stayed most of the day adding sticks to eat until he thought of making some wood for the night and he did. He found that fire kept the mosquitoes away from him. A voice woke him up out on the sand he was scared but he couldn’t see what it was . In the morning he saw marks of claws and when he made a hole under the marks he found eggs of a turtle. He ate most of them raw and he saved some for the other days .
Chapter 11:He struggle to put the eggs in the shelter without eating them then he thought of making a signal , so he made sticks as a shape of cone and when he was about to fire , he thought that he should fire it later . When he hears the voice of a plane but he stayed at the top of the rock and he saw a kingfisher get a fish then he tried to that but he wasn’t fast enough so he thought of making a spear but there is too much to do .
Chapter 12:The spear didn’t work because the fish were too fast . He thought of making a bow and an arrow but he was too hungry so he went to eat and when he came back to make the bow , he almost stepped on a bird which made him more excited to make a bow to hunt . He went to work on the bow . While he was working , he heard a plane . He went to fire a signal but the plane went away and all of his hopes with it.
Chapter 13: Brian stood at the lake with no hope and he couldn’t move because there was a bear behind him just sending him a warning and a wolf across the lake that he knew and when he nodded to it , it went away . At night , he went to kill himself but in the morning he was still there so he thought of his mistakes . He made a better bow and tried to shoot the fish . That night he ate a lot of fish .
Chapter 14:He learned from his mistakes like the skunk one .Once he was asleep and he heard a voice which was a skunk digging to eat the eggs and when Brian tried to kick it out , it punched him with its tail making him blind for 2 hours . So he made a better shelter protected from small animals and a food storage on top of his shelter and a small pond to store fish .
Chapter 15:The author told us about Brian’s first meat when he was dreaming about meat which gave him power . He tried to get a rabbit but they were too fast and the crazy birds were always blending in so he couldn’t see them so he had to only look for the shape not the colors and go close by an angle then shoot the arrow and he finally got his first meal .
Chapter 16: He thought of the first day like the first rabbit day and now he is switching between birds, rabbits and fish .He went to get a bird today. He got a bird and while he was washing it , a moose came and attacked him and made him go home .He was tired and sleepy , while he was asleep a tornado hit and destroyed everything and showed the tail of the plane on the surface of the lake .
Chapter 17:Brian tried to get everything as it was , the shelter , the fire and the food . In the second time , he tried to build a log to get to the plane . On the third day , he ate then he went to the plane but he couldn’t find any opening to get in the plane .
Chapter 18:He tried going so many times but there wasn’t an opening. Finally he used the hatchet to make an opening but it fell in the water. It took him a lot of time to get it out then he finished the opening he went in the plane to look for the survivor’s bag . First time he got the pilot’s head and the second time he got the bag and went to the shelter. Since he was tired , he slept , excited for tomorrow
Chapter 19:In the second morning, he opened the pack and found a sleeping bag , a fish kit and a transmitter that made a plane came and rescued him and send him home but he still remembers the lake and he had the changes in his mind .
Setting
Place
The Cessna 406 plane .
Quebec , Canada
In the forests
Near an L shaped lake .
Setting
Time
1950’s because of the date of publication .
it starts in the beginning of the summer .
It takes 2 month .
It ends at the beginning of the fall
Setting
Mood
Adventure
Happy
Characters
The pilot : a big guy , blond hair , in the 40’s . nice , doesn’t talk much . he got a heart attack and he died when the plane sank in the lake .
Brian : He is boy , thirteen years , lived most of his life in the city. He is smart , tough , patient and he had a lot of changes when he got in the forest .
Plot
Exposition :Brian travels to visit his dad but the pilot had a heart attack and the plane fell in the
forest of Canada and he has to get a new living way
Rising Action : He doesn’t know anything about the forest and he makes a lot of mistakes which equals getting hurt , starving and almost dying .
Climax : a tornado happens while he is asleep and it shows the tale of the plane
Falling action : he goes to the plane and get the survivor’s pack and sends a message in the transmittal and a plane comes to pick him home and send him back to his old life .
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