Hatchet Brian Character Analysis

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People can change in ways that can make them seem like a completely different person when they face a significant amount of conflict. Conflict will change a person without them even realizing it. Brian changed in significant ways that only few people can experience. In the novel, Hatchet Brian was faced with many different kinds of conflict that he had to overcome for his survival. During Brian’s experience in the Canadian wilderness, he transformed from a young boy into a young man.
When the novel Hatchet was beginning Brian was best described as shocked. The word shocked is an appropriate description of him in the beginning considering when the pilot had a heart attack and he was alone on the plane and “The very core of him, the very center

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