Hatchet

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Summary: Survival
Review: A thirteen-year-old boy named Brian is forced to spend fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness after the plane is on crashes. He is on his way to his fathers new home, when the pilot has a heart attack and dies, leaving Brian alone to land the plane the best he can. Once he has landed, he has to find food, shelter, and protection for himself with his only possession, his hatchet. Brian is plunged into an unfamiliar environment, which inevitably causes him to grow from a boy into a young man, and helps him develop mentally. During Brian's adventure to survive, he grows from the boy he was into a young man, who doesn't need anyone's approval. In the beginning, he is upset about the divorce that his parent's have just gone through, but he eventually realizes that there are more important things in life to worry about. At one point he thinks that he will be rescued soon, but he begins to evolve into someone who doesn't need to be rescued, he figures out that he will be just fine on his own. Campbell's article entitled "The Young Adult Perplex" states, "Adolescents are both fascinated and repelled by the idea of being an "outsider," one who is not part of the center of social power"(Campbell 75). Brian feels that he has to have someone take care of him, just as many children feel they have to be part of the in group, but he realizes he does not need anyone, so he grows from the boy he started the trip as into the young man who was eventually rescued on the island. Brian begins to realize how he has grown mentally, and he is proud of who he becomes, but when he makes mistakes and lapses back into his old self, he hates himself. In the novel, Brian tries to scare a skunk away and ends up getting sprayed. When he gets over the smell, he becomes angry for being the scared little boy that he was when he came to the island. Campbell's article states, "But to embrace that "outsider ness" and accept one's own uniqueness is a shortcut to maturity denied to the in-crowd-and the subject of many young adult novels" (Campbell 75). Hatchet is a novel dealing with survival, and mental development that exemplifies this statement through and through. When children are maturing into adulthood, peer reassurance is very important to them. In the novel Hatchet, Brian has no one to prove himself to and becomes a more grown up person for it.

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Summary: Da Book
Review: This book is one of the best books I have ever read. When I ordered it I stayed at home for 3 days waiting for it to show up. When I finaly got I couldn't stop reading it. I recomend this book to any who can read. This book id DA BOMB.

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Summary: best survival book ever
Review: this is a good book. never has A BOOK GONE IN SUCH good detail about surviving a plane wreck and then surviving without anything but a HATCHET

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: I liked this book because it has lots of adventure and action and it has suspense

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: Hatchet is a very good adventurous book. It is about a boy named Brian Robeson who is in a plane crash.He has to survive in the Canadian wilderness with only one thing a hatchet. He can do alot of things with it. He can use it to make a fire and get food. I think that you should read this book!

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: Hatchet is about a boy who's parents got a divorce and he was flying over to see his dad. He crashed in a airplane in a lake, but he got out.People who like wilderness would like this book.Because Brian has to survive in the wilderness all by himself.I liked it very much.

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Summary: hatchet-exciteing and boring book
Review: I read hatchet at school because we had to. I found this book to be alright but if i was to go out and buy any book i would not have chosen this one. I think it took a very long time of reading for it to get interesting. Thats why i only rated it with 2 stars.

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Summary: kylie's review
Review: I thought the best part was the start when all the action started. During the book i found it a bit boring but still good and exciting. Overall a great book to read i am hoping to get the rest in the series. kylie

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Summary: Practicly Perfect
Review: I bought this one night, and finished it in a while. This book was almost PERFECT! It was a story that brought me into the depths of continuing to read. If you like survival stories, grab this! Trust me, it is ANTI-boring!

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Summary: Hatchet
Review: Brian Robeson is thirteen and is on a survival mission in the Canadian wilderness. His plane crashed because his pilot had a heart attack and died. Brian then then found himself having to fly the plane all by himself. Brian decides to land in a near by lake. When Brian survives the crash he finds himself with only a twenty-dollar bill,a windbreaker, and his new hatchet his mother had given him. The lake in which he crashed in provided him drinking water, a bath tub and food. Brian learns to scavenge for berries and catch fish. He made a spear out of a long narrow stick. He speared fish, rabbits and foolbirds. Brian was not successful at this in the beginning. Brian learns to survive in the willderness with little or nothing at all. I reccommend this book to anyone who likes the outdoors or wo li kes a great adventure. This is a great book for anyone who wants to read and have fun. You do not only read the book but you learn in the process as well. You learn how to survive in the wilderness with limited supplies.