Gary Paulsen’s novel “Hatchet” Essay

In Gary Paulsens novel hatchet the protagonist Brian Robenson develops many new skills after his plane crashes into the Canadian wilderness. It is his superpower to make a attack, build a nurse and make new tools that enable him to survive.During one of the nights when he was stuck in the Canadian wilderness a porcupine went into his shelter and he felt it he done the hatchet as a reaction which hit the rock and made a spark he woke up the next morning, remembering what had happened during the night, sparks, fire, I I can make a fire with my hatchet and the rock, it took a fair few tries but he eventually got it on the fire lasted till the mean solar twenty-four hour period he got rescued, during all those days he was stuck out there he had to keep hoping because if he gave up he wouldnt of gotten rescued and it could have ruined the book.After the crash it took him about a day to realize had to build a shelter this would help him survive it could maybe protect him from the wi ld animals and by all odds protect him from the bad weather, he finds a rock/cave type thing and ends up having to re-build his shelter a few times due to animals wrecking it.Through the novel hatchet , Brian makes a correspond of spears and catches all different animals, sometimes he ate the food raw or cooked it on the fire some of the time, it depended what it was, he ate the turtle eggs raw, but cooked the bird.When Brian is stuck in the Canadian wilderness he needs a fire and shelter and food to survive if he didnt have them trinity things he would have only lasted a few days tops, he could of died of hyperthermia or starvation and he wouldnt of been saved, and if he dies it would of ruined the book.