Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
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Read in November, 2007
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basically, Biran is the main character in the story, he is getting on a plane to go visit his father; his parents are divorced. he also has a giant burden on his back, his mother was having an affair.
before he leaves , his mother gives him a hatchet. after, he sets off, he talks with the pilot and has a little fun by piloting the airplane swerving and swoppoing up and down. until suddenly, the pilot has a heartattack becasue of gas and dies. brian is forced to fly the plane himself, but until...more
before he leaves , his mother gives him a hatchet. after, he sets off, he talks with the pilot and has a little fun by piloting the airplane swerving and swoppoing up and down. until suddenly, the pilot has a heartattack becasue of gas and dies. brian is forced to fly the plane himself, but until...more
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Read in September, 2007
Paulsen, Gary (1987). Hatchet. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. 186 pages.
Summary and Evaluation: One summer day thirteen year-old Brian Robeson sets off on a journey to visit his father in northern Canada. Not long into the flight the unthinkable happens -- the plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness and Brian, the lone survivor, is faced with having to survive on his own with only one possession, a hatchet. Through this ordeal Brian learns important life skills incl...more
Summary and Evaluation: One summer day thirteen year-old Brian Robeson sets off on a journey to visit his father in northern Canada. Not long into the flight the unthinkable happens -- the plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness and Brian, the lone survivor, is faced with having to survive on his own with only one possession, a hatchet. Through this ordeal Brian learns important life skills incl...more
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Read in October, 2007
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people who like the out doors
Have you ever heard of the book Hatchet? I have, and after reading that book I thought it had a lot of high-quality details that caught the reader’s attention. Once you start reading it you will not be able to suspend. Brian is the main character. In this book he ends up going on trip to Canada where his dad lives. Brian’s parents got a divorce because Brian’s mom was cheating on his dad. Before Brian left, she gave him something. It’s was a hatchet. Then the plane took off and Brian be...more
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Read in May, 2008
I have been ashamed of the fact that I have never read Hatchet before. Somehow I made it through elementary and middle school without ever reading it, and knowing how popular it was back then, I might as well have been wearing a scarlet "H" for such a sin. Well, I can now gratefully declare that I am freed from such a benighted mark. I have read Hatchet. And what did I think? Well, it is passable with occasional bouts of being really good. I'm a sucker for survival tales. I can think o...more
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Read in October, 2007
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Teacherrecommends it for: Older children
We meet Brian Robeson, 13-yr old boy, at the stage in his life where he is grappling with a major seachange. His parents are recently divorced and so he boards a small plane in order to see his father and thus honor the court’s custody ruling. Immediately, it is certain that many children will buy into this story with divorce occurring so frequently in America.
Brian feels he knows a secret about his mother. We never really find out if the secret is truly unknown to Brian’s dad. Just the...more
Brian feels he knows a secret about his mother. We never really find out if the secret is truly unknown to Brian’s dad. Just the...more
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Read in April, 2000
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a teacherrecommends it for: Everyone its a very good book
This book is the Hatchet written by Gary Paulson. It is about a boy who goes to see his dad in Canada for a trip but things go terribly wrong. He is in a bush plane when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian is forced to fly and land the plane on an L shaped lake. He has to face the wilderness on his own for a long period of time. Some of the problems he faces is getting food from the wilderness. At first all he has is his hatchet and the cloths on his back but after a while he start...more
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The noval Hatchet is one of my favorite books of all time. This is a fictional adventure book. It is about a boy named Brian Robeson. After finding out about the divorce of his parents, he is emotionaly damaged. On his way to the airport, to visit his father, Brians mother gives him a gift. The gift was a hatchet, a very well crafted hatchet. On the plane to his father's house he experiences the fear of all. Brian and the piolet are the only ones on the plane. The piolet has a heart attack and t...more
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Read in June, 2002
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Read in April, 2008
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5/1/08
Hatchet
I read the book hatchet for this month’s book report. The book’s author is Gary Paulsen, and the genre of this book is fiction. The main character in this book, is Brian, he is an only child. Brian is an adventurous teenage boy and likes to learn about the wild. Brian’s parents just recently got divorced because his mom was having an affair. This book starts out with Brian going to visit his dad, but before he leaves his mom gives him a hatchet....more
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Hatchet
I read the book hatchet for this month’s book report. The book’s author is Gary Paulsen, and the genre of this book is fiction. The main character in this book, is Brian, he is an only child. Brian is an adventurous teenage boy and likes to learn about the wild. Brian’s parents just recently got divorced because his mom was having an affair. This book starts out with Brian going to visit his dad, but before he leaves his mom gives him a hatchet....more
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Read in September, 2007
(fwiw this is a book I read my kids aged 6-10)
I'd give this book 3.5 stars if I could. Basically the stuff which makes it a classic and is indeed very good is the adventure/survival stuff (he is the sole survivor of a plane crash deep in the woods and has nothing but a hatchet). Both the details of what he is doing to survive, and the psychological changes he goes through in his attempt to survive are believable, interesting, and illuminating.
There is a second thread in the book which ...more
I'd give this book 3.5 stars if I could. Basically the stuff which makes it a classic and is indeed very good is the adventure/survival stuff (he is the sole survivor of a plane crash deep in the woods and has nothing but a hatchet). Both the details of what he is doing to survive, and the psychological changes he goes through in his attempt to survive are believable, interesting, and illuminating.
There is a second thread in the book which ...more
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Read in December, 2007
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boys and tomboys the world over (and any adult counterpart suffering nostalgia)
My first foray into childhood favorites for one unlikely-to-succeed purpose: converting my brother from books about Harry Potter to books about anything else, in the world. Any suggestions?
When I first read Hatchet, at around ten or twelve, I devoured it time and time again. The idea of learning wilderness survival with nothing but a hatchet and my own wits prickled the pores of my baby-smooth chest with visions of man-hair, tufts and tufts of it, more than I knew what to do with, for after ...more
When I first read Hatchet, at around ten or twelve, I devoured it time and time again. The idea of learning wilderness survival with nothing but a hatchet and my own wits prickled the pores of my baby-smooth chest with visions of man-hair, tufts and tufts of it, more than I knew what to do with, for after ...more
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Read in September, 2007
The Hatchet
The Hatchet was written by Gary Paulsen. It was first published in 1987. The main character of this story in Brian Robeson. While Brian was going to visit his divorced. His single- engine plane crashed in the Canadian wilderness. So Brian was left alone with nothing, but a hatchet. Brian had to find food to eat. He had to learn how to hunt. He had to learn to make fire with only a hatchet, a paper like material, and his shelter wall. Then after a while after he was comfortable...more
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My 9-year old son brought this home from school and loved it. He raved and raved about it and kept pestering me to read it. I finally gave in, and I'm glad I did. In a nutshell, 13-year old Brian's parents are divorced and he's flying to Canada to spend the summer with his father. The pilot of the small plane has a heart attack and dies mid-flight. Brian's resourcefulness enable him to crash land the plane and survive. He must then survive in the forest until he is rescued.
A quick, easy read...more
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Read in September, 2007
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Brian Robeson's parents just got divorced. He is sitting next to the pilot in a single-engine plane on the way to see his father. This was the first time Brian had seen his father since the divorce. His father lives in the Canadian Wilderness, which is where Brian is flying to. He is miles from where he was going and miles from where he came from; over the endless sea of green trees of Canada when the pilot has a heart attack and dies.
Brian manages to make the plane crash in a lake to g...more
Brian manages to make the plane crash in a lake to g...more
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Read in July, 2004
The book Hatchet is written by Gary Paulsen. Gary Paulsen is one of the best writers around. He has many other books that are great. But in my eyes I thought The Hatchet was the best one. The Hatchet is about a boy who gets stranded on an island from when a plan had crashed landed on a island. All he no’s he is the only survivor of the crash. So he has to go into the forest and he has to live off a little shelter fish and any other sort of food he could find. This is one of my other favorite b...more
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Read in January, 2007
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Written by Gary Paulsen, published by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 1987.
Summary: A story about a young boy whose family is torn apart by divorce. He travels on a prop plane to see his dad in Canada but during the flight, the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies. Brian crashes the plane into a lake and amazingly survives the crash. The novel follows his transformation through surviving 54 days in the wilderness before he is rescued.
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Read in June, 2008
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I liked it better toward the end, but it was still very disappointing. I enjoy survival stories like this, like Into Thin Air, and when I was a kid I loved My Side of the Mountain and The Cay. However, I thought that the writing was pretty bad and am really surprised it is a Newbery book. At times it almost read like a prose poem--a bad one that didn't obey basic grammatical rules, like putting an "and" before the last item of a list or avoiding run-on sentences: "His hands beg...more
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Read in July, 2008
I like the way Paulsen uses language in this book. The repetition and short phrases are like thoughts. "Divorce. A breaking word, an ugly breaking word. Divorce. Secrets. No, not secrets so much as just the Secret." or "It was over then. The crash. He was alive. The crash is over and I am alive, he thought."
Near the end of the book, when he was able to recover the survival pack from the plane after so many days of surviving with nothing but his hatchet there is a passage ...more
Near the end of the book, when he was able to recover the survival pack from the plane after so many days of surviving with nothing but his hatchet there is a passage ...more
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Read in March, 2002
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mrs. atkinsrecommends it for: anyone ages 9 and up
Hatchet, a thrilling adeventure with only 1 main character, brian, is a great story if you like the outdoors and adventure. it has suspense, irony, and flashback. you can definitely tell the type of character brian is by his actions as he's trapped in nature. it's a sad story at times but can also have joy, light and hope. everything was great in this story, i could understand the plot line and even when the flashbacks came, i was fully aware when brian was dreaming into a time before.
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avg rating (all editions): 3.71 (5949 ratings) avg rating (this edition): 3.69 (4973 ratings) number of reviews: 618popular shelves
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