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    The title of this book is ‘Hatchet’, written by Gary Paulsen, and this book has received “Newberry Honor Book” award. It was published in 1987 and named “the bestselling classic survival story”. The genre of the book is coming-of-age adventure novel. Children aged 10 to 15 will enjoy reading it very much. In the beginning, the story takes place in the small airport in Hampton, New York, where the main character is from, and later in the Canadian woods by the lake. The story is about a teenager…

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    I believe that Hatchet doses a better job of telling the story.I believe this because, Hatchet gives more details than the movie “A Cry In The Wild” does. In Hatchet he went to sleep like three times after the plane had crashed in the pound. But in the movie he just went to sleep ones. Also in the novel Brien called the barriers gut barriers, but in the movie he called them throw-up barriers. According to the book Hatchet Brian was eating berries and saw a bear. The bear saw Brien and walked…

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    Hatchet Vs. A Cry In The Wild Hatchet does a better job of telling the story. This is because the amount of time spent at the lake and has more details and shows that Brian can get hurt and isn’t superhuman. Hatchet has imagery like the roaring plane and others which aren't quite as good as the ones you see in the movie. The book’s foreshadowing isn't quite as good as the films either. After all this you would think the movie didn't care about anything but imagery and foreshadowing and not the…

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    When Brian was a thirteen years old boy, his parents had been divorce.basically Brian had to live with his father who was working in Canada in summer. Before Brian took the plane to visit his father, his mother gave him a hatchet as a present. Momentarily the pilot suffered the massive heart-attack and he died.Brian control the plane by himself. As Brian almost ran out of the gas he falled down on the edge of lake.After the plane crash, in spite of Brian’s forehead and his leg got hurt, yet he…

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    and cover both sides of the flight plan filed by the pilot and search until they found him.¨ ( Chapter 5 pg 47 )The book The Hatchet written by Gary Paulsen is about a teenage boy named Brian that survives in a plane crash but doesn't land in the luckiest spot. He lands in the water that's surrounded by a forest. Brian has to survive the wilderness but luckily he has his hatchet with him and he is very positive that someone will eventually find him. Without his power of positive thinking then he…

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    bad one called “The Secret”, but he also had a good one that helped him survive. Memories can help or they can put you down, Brian was put down at first but he got back up and he used the memories that he had and survived. These occur in the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. 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…

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    Have you ever been away from you parents for a long time. Maybe 54 day’s. Well Brian Robeson had to. He was stranded by himself after a plane crash. This very book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen had a ton of memories. Some of them were good but some were bad. One of them is that his parents got a divorce and his mother made him leave to his father for summer and he left not knowing the secret. That was one of the bad. There’s good in this one, when his mother left the salmon out when she went to visit…

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    Life-changing experiences can have an direct impact on the person who went through it and their lives. In the books Hatchet, Dragonwings, and Eleven all had a character who went a through life-changing experiences. Brian, Moon Shadow, and Rachel all had a life-changing experience that took an direct impact on their lives. All the life changing experiences were different from the other in some ways. These books are an example of life changing experiences have a direct impact on their lives.…

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    I arrived at the town of Hatchet River and immediately felt as though I were an outsider. People came out of their houses just to watch me drive by as though they could sense that I did not belong there. The truck that I had rented felt gigantic on the cracked narrow streets, making me stick out even more. It was one of those places where everyone knew everyone and I suppose that they preferred to keep it that way. Feeling anxious, I began to itch away at a bug bite on the back of my neck. I…

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    Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Originally published: September 30, 1987. Series: Brian's Saga. Genre: Young adult fiction. Followed by: The River. Characters: Jim/Jake, Brian's mother, Brian's father, Brian Robeson, Terry. We don't know exactly where the story of Hatchet takes place because Brian is very, very lost. Brian's plane comes down somewhere in the…

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