Gary Becker

by Gary Paulsen, the main characters go through an ordeal, and manage to persevere. While Clay, the main character of “Up the Slide”, faces a physical hardship, the narrator of “Glow in the Dark” faces an emotional ordeal. The themes of the texts are similar in a way, but the mood of the story helps establish a clear, strong theme. Both authors use mood to show how the main characters go through ordeals and push past them, but while Jack London uses the mood to show Clay’s determination, Gary…

Hatchet Hatchet is about a boy named Brian who gets stuck on a deserted island after a plane crash. Brian has to learn how to survive with very minimal supplies, food, and no fresh water. Throughout the story, the reader can identify many different elements of symbolism. These symbolic elements represent how Brian has changed throughout the course of the story. Throughout the entire story, Brian is constantly with a hatchet, hence the title. Besides the fact that the hatchet helps him survive,…

The story is about a thirteen- year- old boy named Brian Robeson from New York who is flying from Hampton, New York to Canada to spend the summer with his father. His parents recently got divorced, which is very upsetting to him. Brian keeps blaming his mother for the divorce , because he saw his mother with another man in the car, which make him think , his mom is the reason for his parent’s splitting up. His mother drops him off at a private airport to visit his father. During the flight,…

The books Hatchet and Brian’s winter, both written by Gary Paulsen. They are about a young man that has to go through some profound changes to make it in the wilderness alone. In the first book, which is the Hatchet. Brian is the main character in the story, when brian was on his way to his father’s house when the pilot of the two seat passenger airplane started to die. The plane began to go down, Brian began to panick. When the plane finally crashed in a big pond in the middle of…

The casting was great, at least in regards to Tom Hanks, Sally Field and Gary Sinise. Their character portrayals could not have been more honest and believable. Though the film is seen with Gump’s childish view, there is still an underlying sense of knowledge and understanding felt by the viewer. Gump’s innocence allows him…

She was living off berries and river water. She couldn't explain how she went missing. She "blacked out", woke up lost and started wandering around through a bush. When she was lost, she encountered a bear. She survived for 16 days. The "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen is about a fourteen year old boy named Brian Robinson who's traveling to Canada to visit his father. A horrible incident happened during his flight in the bush plane to Canada. Suddenly, Brian finds himself all alone in the Canadian…

Generally I overthink everything, but for some reason when it comes to justice-related issues everything is very clear and simple to me. It all started in 2011; I was fourteen years old, it was 2 am, and I was watching a mini-series about human trafficking on Youtube. Honestly, searching “human trafficking” on Youtube was the exact opposite of what my anti-human trafficking buddy Kathy told me to do, but for some reason I did it anyway. After watching this miniseries, I felt like an anvil was…

Could you survive by yourself in the Canadian wilderness for 54 with only a hatchet ?In the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen,the main character Brian did just that.Brian got stuck in the Canadian Wilderness for 54 days after he was flying to see his father and the pilot had a heart attack.Brian had been through so much mentally and physically in the wilderness that it made him realize what he needed to survive like when he got attacked by a porcupine and got stuck in the leg with some quills,he…

character is a young girl, named Sarney, who is forced into working labor at a young age. During the 1700’s-1950’s in America, the system of people being treated as property to be bought and sold, to endure labor was a common practice. Even though, Gary Paulsen’s novel, Night John is considered nonsense, multiple sources corroborate descriptions of shattered family structures, oppressive conditions, and rebellious actions toward slavery. Historical documents certify that the separation of…

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…