Book Report on "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen.
Book Report on Hatchet
Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old from New York City. He is heading on a plain going
from Hampton, New York to the Canadian north woods to visit . His parents just had
recent divorce that affects him heavily, as does "The Secret" that is having an affair. It
gives him a brief flying lesson in which Brian has control of the plane for a few minutes.
The pilot has pain in his shoulder, arm, and stomach. Brian does not think it is very
serious. The heart attack stops and the pilot is dead; Brian is forced to take over the
controls. The plane crashes into a lake in the Canadian woods, where Brian is stranded.
Brian nothing to eat and is injured from the crash, but believes he will soon be rescued. He
finds some strange food to eat, which makes him sick. He finds a raspberry , where he
spots a bear. Brian builds a shelter and in the middle of the night he hears a noise. A skunk
has entered his shelter and Brian throws the hatchet in its direction. It shoots it into Brian's
leg, causing him severe pain. Brian attempts to build a fire with no matches and eventually
succeeds when he learns how to strike his hatchet against a stone to ignite sparks. He finds
turtle eggs and eats them. One day a plane flies overhead but does not see him and
continues, leaving Brian devastated and hopeless. He attempts to commit suicide. He
decides he wants to live.
Brian catches a fish. That night a skunk sprays him. It temporarily blinds him and covers
him with a horrible stench. Brian perfects his tools and catches a foolbird, his first meat.
While he is cleaning the bird in the water, a moose attacks Brian, injuring his ribs and his
shoulder. A tornado then destroys his shelter.
The day after the tornado, Brian discovers that the storm has riled up the water in the lake,
reminding Brian of the dead pilot and telling him to say a few words for him. Lying in bed
one night, it occurs to Brian that he could find survival pack in the body of the plane, and
he determines to build a raft to do so. After many incidents, Brian retrieves the survival
pack from the plane. At one point he drops the hatchet to the lake's bottom, but retrieves
it with a long dive. On his way back up to the surface, Brian sees the dead pilot's head
underwater, partially eaten by fish. Brian gets sick in the water but manages to make it
back to his shelter to get some sleep. He survives.
Reviews of: "Book Report on "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen."
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ok its really irritating me how you take other peoples comments and try and label them as your own. This time you have taken my comment and mixed it with ccmustangs to try and make a ripoff comment of your own. Is this what you do with your essays????????
PLAGIARIST
This could be very much improved, although it gets the main plot across. But instead of ending with "he survives" you should say how he survives, or if the book just ends there waiting for a sequel. Sentence structure and transition are the two main components you should work on.
There are too many grammatical mistakes in this essay ie: plain = plane. Also this essay seems to not grasp the real theme behind "Hatchet". I remember reading this when I was 14 in school, and from what I can remember it is all about human strength and the ability to overcome trials and tribulations if you put your mind to it. I feel that this essay fails to really connect with the emotional strength that is sprawled in the pages of this booklet. This essay would have been better if you had taken the hatchet, from which the title was derived and explained it as a means of imagery for the thematic plot of the story, and it would have also connected the plot summary you have provided with an analysis of the book. In a book report it is all very well giving a plot summary, but you also have to analyse it as well to show that you are able to comprehend and critically analyse the work. Once you do this you will see that your grades will dramatically improve. From my experience teachers are not after a shortened version of the story, they are after the connection you felt with it. If you add some emotional aspects like how Brian felt disparaged and completely alone when he emerged from the plane crash, but through inner strength he manages to overcome the lack of food, sickness and the psychological strain that occurs being naked in the canadian wilderness.
i liked it but it has a lot of grammar mistakes and you need to make the end more interesting than just he survived. it needs to say how he survived...
The sentences are choppy and many of them make no sense. This essay has absolutely no flow and there is no way that you could get 100% in an 8th grade class for something like this.
I agree with Hoba, but I would have not been so kind. I bought this paper as a frame of reference for my FIFTH GRADER'S report because I didn't want to read the book. Her rough draft is 5 times better than this. This paper is terrible. If this is 8th grade "A" quality in this country, we're doomed...too much wrong with it to justify my time. Stay in school or keep your day job.
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you give random facts throughout the essay, but you don't explain through example quite why it's important. The ending needs work. I don't think you were intending to ruin the ending or leave a cliffhanger, which is what you did. It makes the readers wonder "how".
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