One negative memory that he had in the book was in chapter 4, he states “The memory was like a knife cutting into him. Slicing deep into him with hate. The secret.” this was the negative thing that made him so emotional and less concentrated on surviving. Brian goes through a lot with his parents divorce.…
As a means of protection he took up the entire identity of his cruel brother because he knew that he was not strong enough to fend for himself, so he reinvented himself for his own survival. This sense of lost identity caused him to loose all former characteristics of Brian and to take up all the cruel and merciless ones of Philip. All of his motivations and tyrant like philosophy comes from his brother’s cold and unforgiving ways. Another reason why Brian took his brother’s identity is because he was tired of being weak and dominated which is why when he comes Philip he is channeling his inner aggression and resentment for all of those years of submissive behavior. Psychologically he is very unstable as he becomes mad with power and his obsession with control causes him to become held captive at the mercy of Michonne.…
This book is called “Hatchet”, by Gary Paulsen. Brian’s mom gave him the hatchet to use it in the Canadian woods with his dad, because they are divorced. The unfortunate thing that happened to Brian occurred when he was flying to his dad. Brian’s parents are divorced. Brian knew that his mother was meeting another man, but he didn’t tell his father.…
Jack is the person that changes the most throughout the story.…
“The only person you can count on is yourself.” In the book Hatchet by: Gary Paulsen, Brian is faced with the challenge of finding good food. Brian, after thinking, realizes that the lake has fish in it that he could catch and eat. He spends hours and hours making a “fish spear”.…
Some of his memories were good, but some of them were bad. Such as his parents divorce. Throughout Brian’s time in the wilderness, Brian have a lot of memories that helped him throughout his worst moment of survival. But there's one memory that I think that helped him the most was in chapter 14,” His mother had left some salmon out by mistake one time when they went on an overnight trip to Cape Hesper to visit relatives and when they got back the smell filled the whole house.…
Brian started dealing with issues when he was in grade school. kids he went to school with would verbally bully him. Due to the fact that others saw him as ‘weird.’ This inflicted emotional pain on Brian. Brian had a very low self-esteem, he found it hard to believe that he would ever succeed at anything in life.…
One reason proving Brian turns into things to get away from people is, in the story it said “Brian knew the answer from the question, but the teacher never called on him so he didn’t even bother to raise his hand.” Then moments after that he turned into a frisbee to get away from people because they were ignoring him. This shows that, Brian is so hurt from being ignored, he turns into things so people can’t ignore him. In addition, when Brian turns into things no one notices not even people sitting right next to him. This shows how much people ignore him and how lonely he is.…
When the rescue plane came and turned around Brian wanted to give up, but he learned that he should never give up. When Brian dropped his hatchet he kept trying to get it, and he finally got it because he learned he shouldn’t give up.…
He is not the same person that he was when he lived with his mom or the same personality, he is now a changed boy and he could have never done this if he didn't stay positive. This is the point where Brian shows his positivity the…
I think that Hatchet does a better job of telling the story. I believe this because. in the book the bear was eating berries and left Brain alone. It stated in the book chapter 7 that “The bear made no move to hurt you, to threaten you. It stood to see you better, study you, then when on its way eating berries.”…
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.…
What changes for MCbride is he starts to realizes that he can’t stay on the corner his whole life,he realizes that he has to try to make something out of himself. The moment that starts to define him was when he was almost killed messing around at the gas station. If I said I never fail i’d be lying,One example of my failure is when I Failed my Algebra class. I learned that Algebra is extremally extremally hard to learn when A teacher isn’t good at their job and what It takes to be willing even when not willing. I was willing even when I was not because I knew I had to try even if i didn’t get it at all.…
Change, a process many book characters undergo to develop the reader’s understanding of that character’s identity and personality. The characters in Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen certainly do not skip out on the process of change. Potok uses certain events and relationships to evolve and change his characters into a more definable person for the reader to understand. While many characters in the book transform for the better, some change for the worse. Although several characters do evolve, three of them outshine the rest.…
One reason that proves the theme “You can always find something positive in change” is that the main character…