Small mistakes could lead to big disasters.” In the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Brian Robeson, makes a lot of mistakes that could've changed his life. He is stranded alone in the northern woods of Canada after surviving a deadly plane crash. The theme of this book is “there is no growth without resistance.” An addition, this occurrence happens many times throughout the story. One way Brian is showing growth is when he had to land the airplane by himself. “When the plane ran out of gas, he should hold the nose down and head for the nearest lake and try to fly the plane kind of the water. that’s how he thought of it. Kind of fly the plane onto the water. And just before it hit he should pull back on the wheel and slow the plane to reduce
