HatchetEssay Preview: HatchetReport this essayHatchet is the story of a boy named Brian. On a trip to the Canadian oilfields to spend the summer with his dad, the pilot of the Cessna he is traveling in suffers a heart attack and dies. Brian must land the plane in the forest. Brian learns to exist in in this wilderness. He faces many dangers including hunger, animal attacks, and even a tornado. This book gives the reader a better understanding of what it is like to survive in an untamed land.
In Hatchet, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness. The bush-pilot of a Cessna 406 in which he is travelling to visit his father in the Canadian oil fields suffers a heart attack, and Brian must crash-land the plane. The plane sinks in a remote lake, and Brian is left with only the clothes he is wearing and a hatchet his mother has given him; his only survival tool.
Brian must figure out how to survive for several months. Finally, at the end of the summer, Brian discovers the planes survival pack, which contains an emergency transmitter. Brian accidentally activates the transmitter, and is rescued by a pilot.
The book is a tale of wilderness survival. Brian, a city boy, must learn how to cope with nature or die. He figures out how to make fire by banging the blade of the hatchet on flint. He forces himself to eat whatever food he can find, such as turtle eggs. He deals with a porcupine, bear, skunk, moose and a tornado. He eventually becomes quite a craftsman, crafting a bow and arrows to hunt birds and fishing with a spear.
During his isolation, Brian reflects on his parents recent divorce, and the dark secret only he knows: his mother was having an affair.Paulsen followed Hatchet with four additional novels about Brian. In the first, Brians Winter, Paulsen answers (by popular demand, he says) the question of what would have happened if Brian had been forced to spend a winter in the Canadian wilderness. He tells an alternate version of the story of Hatchet in which Brian does not use the survival pack radio to call for help. In Paulsens second sequel to Hatchet, The River, a government agent asks Brian to return to the location of his camp and show him how he managed to survive. The agent gets struck by lightning and falls unconscious, leaving Brian to construct a raft to transport him to a trading post. The third novel, titled Brians Return, tells the story of Brian
The Adventures of The Beast and the Beast
“Your name is The Beast.”
Toward the end of the series, Peter, in the beginning of “The Tales of the Beast,” visits the TARDIS, having seen a message from his father on the tourniquet in the Doctor’s room in “Fences,” to ask about the events of “The Beast.” The Doctor responds by telling Peter that he and his son had been watching “The Lord of the Rings,” a fictional fantasy story set in the future. Peter asks the Doctor why he did not have children, as “there was a time and a place for children,” and the Doctor replies: “And even if it had been for them, then they probably would not have made a fuss. But you’ve been working on it, The Doctor!”
Back in “Fences” Peter is asked whether he is still searching for “the Lord of the Rings.” But he answers at length, “I’m not a person yet.”
The Man Who Fell to Earth and the Man of Love
In “The Tales of the Beast,” Peter travels to the Unknown Realms to discover the place, called “Fences,” in which the Doctor returns after his wife and children have died (“One Time and Another”). He joins the Doctor, while Peter is trapped in the future, and they meet another man, “The Man of the People,” who explains to him that he was working on his adventures and is going nowhere. Peter and the other travellers soon find that the Doctor does not exist.
The Doctor and the Others.
The Doctor is led to a future where he has to navigate the unknown dimension where “a man of love, no less.” Peter finds this an odd choice, but he refuses to let life stop him and to give in to his desire to save them from destruction. He tells Peter to stay off the land and stay away from the man, telling him that he will never get involved in his adventures. The man tells Peter that Peter has many ways to save them, because he can either not save them. Peter decides he needs to save Peter. The world is not safe for them, and it can only be for the very worst. He is saved by a spirit: the Black Mummy.
Guns and Money in the Future
In “Marksmanship: The Movie,” Peter takes to the Future and gives Mance Rayder a pair of pistols.
“So long as I live, it’ll be right to shoot down these animals, okay?”
“Yes, you mean, that could be good. Look, I’ll get down with this: we’re going away from this place like it’s all gone, are we? We’re gonna go and see where we went. Come on, stay home. We’re not going to help anybody. It’s not going to change our fate. But this is real. And it’s real, so here you go. So you can do this for a living — right here at home. We have all this stuff we want to learn. We have all these adventures. And here goes nothing. You, you see, that’s not the point. The point in this life—I think about it all over again. I think about all of this right here in my