Hatchet: Character Traits Are Crucial For Survival

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What traits are crucial for survival? After reading Hatchet and several informational texts on survival, write an essay in which you argue the character traits that are most crucial to survival. Support your opinion with evidence from the text/s.

The book hatchet was about a boy on a plane going to see his dad but then he figured that the pilot had a heart attack and the plane was going to crash. You definitely need creativity for survival because if they need to go down a lake to get to a different land they can make a boat with everything around them. In order to survive you would need bravery because when a plane crashes and you land on a island and you don't know what to do you need bravery. People would need confidence because when they crash or something that they wouldn’t know what to do in they can just be confident.I think this trait is crucial for survival because to do something
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Also you can be confident about doing something when their scared. Another way of being confident is when you're confident about doing something or making something. Another way of being confident is when you don't want to do something but you need to. You can be confident when you are making something if you don't know how. If you were to get stranded on an island when a plane just crashed you would have to have confidence to know what you're going to do.

I think that Bravery is also a good trait for survival because you can be brave for whatever happened. Another way of being brave is if you are alone and you don’t really know what to do you can be brave. Also you can be brave when you are trying to look for food and you are alone. One other way of being brave is when you are looking for water to drink and materials. One other way you can be brave is when you are not one hundred percent sure about

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