Hatchet Gary Paulsen Quotes

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“Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen focuses on the main character named Brian Robeson. In this novel, Brian gets on a plane on the way to his dad's house but then the pilot dies of a heart attack. Brian has to take action, so he tries to call on the phone for an assistant but then he loses connection so he lands the plain in the middle of nowhere. He is a quick thinker, overwhelmed personality and is a survivor.
Brian Robeson is a quick thinker, I can prove this because as stated on page 30 chapter two “The pilot was gone, beyond anything he could do. He had to try and fly the plane....He gave it a tug and it slid back towards him easily. Too easily. The plane, with the increased speed from the tilt down, swooped eagerly up and drove Brian's stomach down. He pushed the wheel back in, went too far this time, and the plane's nose went below the horizon and the engine speed increased with the shallow dive. Too much. He pulled back again, more gently this time, and …show more content…
As stated in the end of chapter three and chapter four “ Pulling until his hands caught in weeds and muck, pulling and screaming until his hands caught at last in grass and brush and he felt his chest on land, felt his face in the coarse blades of grass and he stopped, everything stopped. A color came that he had never seen before, a color that exploded in his mind with the pain and he was gone, gone from it all, spiraling out into the world, spiraling out into nothing. Nothing. … He was alive. The crash is over and I am alive, he thought. Then his eyes closed and he lowered his head for minutes that seemed longer.” This explains the crash of the plane that Brian was in and that at the end he did, after all, survive it. Also during the novel it explains and shows you the reader how brian survives throughout the novel, For instance, he survives the plane crash, he survives being in the forest for days and fishing for food and finding a shelter these are all things that helped him survive the
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