Hatchet+Essay+7

**By David** In the book __Hatchet,__ by Gary Paulson, a kid named, Brian, is a city boy who knows nothing about the wilderness except what the TV says and shows and maybe what he's read in some books. But when his parents get divorced and he flies to Canada to be with his dad for the summer, the pilot has a heart attack and Brian is forced to crash-land in a lake where he is stuck in the wilderness until he's rescued. **Brian then and throughout the book learns to survive in the wilderness through mistakes, and under both heavy and light circumstances.** But sometimes mistakes can be almost impossible to fix. That's what the book __Hatchet,__ by Gary Paulsen, is about. **Brian learned to survive with the first lesson that was on how to build a camp.** Brian started with a simple memory of back home, with his friend, Terry, they built a lean-to in the park. So, Brian set up a lean-to for some shelter to start on his camp. Food soon became a problem, so Brian started making weapons with the hatchet his mom gave him when he left. He made a spear, a bow and arrow. Then, when Brian started gathering food, he learned to cook but how do you cook without a heat source? Brian learned to make fire through a dream and so, with the fire he started cooking his meat in stews and even on a stick like a marshmallow. These are the ways Brian learned how to build a camp. **Brian learned to survive with a second lesson, that was quickly learned, was on how to gather food.** Brian at first had trouble finding any food at all. The first food brain found were some turtle eggs that were lade in the night. Shortly after the eggs ran out Brian ate berries which sometimes resulted in an unpleasant barf. However, like the berries, more food sources showed up, such as fish. He started catching fish with his spear, although, he found that fish gave energy but weren't exactly filling. After that, Brian killed chicken like birds with his bow and arrow which proved to work better at filling Brian. And with his bow and arrow he was also eventually able to kill rabbits. Brian was clearly able to gather food such as the rabbits. **And finally Brian's final lesson on how to survive in the wilderness was on how to overcome nature's wrath.** Nature can be nice and peaceful like on a sunny day. But there are times where nature starts getting rough. An example of nature getting rough on Brian is when a porcupine deciding to snuggle in with him, OOUUCH! That was the first but definitely not the last. When Brian had turtle eggs to eat, a skunk decided to have a little mid-night snack, and when Brian tried to stop it, he was given an entirely new sent which was very unpleasant. But that was the least of Brian's problems, when latter, a moose goes bonkers and pulls a full rampage charge on Brian. And to top it all, a tornado hits Brian and his camp right after the moose almost shattering his ribs. But the amassing thing is that Brian prevailed. Brian learned to beat nature at it's own game. As you can see, Brian can build a camp, he can gather his own food, and he can prevail through natures wrath. These are to me the most important things to know when surviving in the wilderness alone. **Brian learning to survive in the wilderness by learning these things.** Native Americans themselves did thing like Brian. That for me is is amassing because Brian was a city boy, with no knowledge of how to survive in the wilderness, but yet when he's dumped in nature, he manages.
 * Brian Survives**