Summary Of Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

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In the novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen it talks about a boy named Brian who is on his way to his dad's house, but on the way the pilot has a heart attack which leads to the plane crashing. In the beginning of the story Brian started to get creative and make stuff like a shelter, a food storage, and a sphere to fish with. But later on he was starting to lose all the fish and berries, and his shelter was falling apart, he decided to cut himself with his hatchet to put him out of misery. He woke up the next morning and hated himself because he did that. He then just started to go to find other berry bushes and he moved to the other side of the lake for fish.

After awhile he remembered that there was a safety pack for if something like that

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