Surviving In Hatchet

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There are probably a lot of people that will agree with me when I say surviving with nothing is no fun. Brian had to in order to survive in Hatchet. He had to make decisions he didn’t want to make in order to survive. I’m just as old as he would be then, and I have just the knowledge if not more. I watch videos of what to do in situations like that because you never know when you can use them. So I think I could probably survive if I were in Brian’s situation.

There’s only two main reasons that I think I would be able to survive, and I have a quote to support it. “He ate six of them, could have easily eaten all of them and not been full…” In Brian’s situation he has to push through disgusting things in order to live, but he also has to have

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