| The book "Hatchet" is about a teenager boy who gets stranded on the Canadian wilderness. Brian is flying on a plane to visit his dad and the pilot gets a heart attack. But Brian doesn't have any experience to drive a plane, so he crashes and lands in the water and he has to swim all the way to land.
He ends up at the Canadian Wilderness. He builds a shelter from his hatchet, his mother gave him, and the wilderness is a forest so he cuts down a lot of trees. Brian is struggling to get a fire, but finally he sucseeds by using his hatchet and a rock. What Brian eats is raspberries at first, then he trys to eat fish, but he finally just eats birds, with his bow and arrow he invented. He drinks the water in the lake he first landed on. In the beginning he saw a bear, in the middle he saw another bear with cubs, and also in the middle he saw a wolf, and again in the middle he saw a porcupine and it shot quills at Brian's leg, it hurt him bad. Also towards the end Brian saw a moose close to the lake and it pushed Brian into the water and again and again and fianlly he got up and his ribs were very hurt because that was where the moose had hit him. A very magor sad event comes towards the end also, a tornado comes and destroys all of Brians shelter, and everything except the hatchet. Brian works again and rebuilds his shelter. | ||
|
Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) Time/era of story: Exploring into the wild Yes Plotlets: - stranded - planewreck - surviving elements in wilderness Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book descript. of violence and chases - 20 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 % Terrain - Forest Main Character Gender - Male Profession/status: Age: - a teen Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - none Age: - a teen Profession/status: How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Setting The Americas (not US): Yes The Americas: - Canada Forest? Yes Water? Yes Water: - swimming on Air? Yes Air: - passenger plane Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death Amount of dialog - little dialog |
||