One Book that helped me understand survival skills and persistence to stay alive is Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Hatchet is about a boy named Brian who is flying to Alaska to visit his father when his pilot suddenly had a heart attack and dies. Brian then manages to keep the plane level and crashes it into a lake in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. Now Brian has to learn how to survive in the wilderness on his own with nothing but a hatchet that his mother gave him before he got on the plane to go to meet his father. Survival is going to be hard for a city boy like Brian to survive in the wilderness and he is going to have to turn into a survivalist in a couple days if he wants to survive. Reading this book has helped me understand what it
