Rating: 
Summary: Hatchet
Review: Hatchet Hatchet is a great book for people who like adventure books. It is about a boy who is flying to his mother's house. He had to take a plane, but the pilot was not feeling well. The pilot had a heart attack. The boy tried to fly the plane, but he could not steer it and it crashed. The boy was stranded on an island with a hatchet that his father had given him for his birthday. He built himself shelter with wood he cut up with the hatchet. He had to eat fish to survive. He had to cut up the fish with the hatchet. The boy had to completely change his lifestyle to survive. He had to have a positive attitude to survive, but some days he did not feel that great. He found the radio from the plane. He tuned it and got a man on the line. He told him that he was stranded on an island. Did the man save the boy? Read Hatchet to find out!
I thought that Hatchet was a great book. It was very suspenseful because I did not know what was going to happen next. I do not recommend this book to people who do not like action or adventure. I would rate this book a four out of five stars.
Rating: 
Summary: Hatchet
Review: Hatchet Hatchet is about a thirteen-year-old boy named Brain, and he is going to live with his dad for the summer. He takes a private plane up north where his father lives. During the middle of the flight his pilot has a heart attack. Brain finds a way to land the plane, but he is in the middle of the woods, and remembers flying over woods for miles. Some how he needs to find a way to survive and get help.
Hatchet was a very interesting and tense book. All the things Brain has to go through are very scary. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants action and adventure. I really like how the author, Gary Paulson, kept your adrenaline running right until the end. I would give this book. !!!5/5 Stars!!!
Rating:
Summary: Hatchet: Kara
Review: Hatchet was great book and the audio reader was fine, I would recommend it if you are not into reading. The events that happen in this story are so real you almost feal like you are there. It is about a boy Brian who is on his way to his father's house when his pilot has a heart attack. He is forced to land the plane when it runs out of gas, so he crashes it in a lake. He sleeps for about a day then sorts out what he must do. His only weapon and tool at the time is his hatchet. It was given to him by his mother before he left. He eats berries at first, then fish and bird, then he finally gets the survival pack from the plane and has afeast. The rest of the book was about how he survived. Eventually he was found by a man but was unsure when going home. He missed the wilderness and trying to survive. Hatchet was a great book and I encourage you to read it.
Rating: 
Summary: Overrated Trash
Review: Gary Paulsen's Hatchet is easily one of the worst books I have ever read. Paulsen's style and diction merit a children's book. There is no depth, meaning, complexity, et cetera. The main thing which people who actually like this abomination cling to is Paulsen's ability to make it seem real; Of all the things one could claim, that is one of the most outrageous. This book does not convey any sense of reality at all, it merely explains the main character's illogical or simplistic actions, shallow thoughts, unrealistic emotions, and naive reactions - and moreover it does this sans any insight or purpose. Perhaps this book would be alright for kindergarteners or first-graders; beyond that, I would highly discourage anyone from even giving this book a second glance.
Rating:
Summary: This story is a winner!
Review: The book "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen is about a 13-year-old boy, named Brian, who got separated from civilization for 54 days. It is a story about survival and the reader never knows what will happen next. The thing that is so amazing about Brian's story is how he survived with only the clothes on his back and the hatchet he wore on his belt. He learned from his mistakes and nature. The reader will learn lessons about living in the wild.
The main character of the story is Brian Robeson. The author doesn't describe how Brian looks but he describes how he thinks and acts. Brian's parents are divorced so he is going to Canada - to live with his dad for the summer. Brian is the protagonist of the story, battling a conflict against nature - the antagonist. Gary Paulsen, the author, narrates the story in the third-person point of view, telling what goes on in the mind of Brian.
The story has an adventurous plot, told in chronological order, which begins in a little bush plane flying over the Canadian north woods with Brian and a pilot. Gary Paulsen uses foreshadowing on pages 5 and 6 when the pilot rubs his shoulder, complains of aches and pains, and emits body gas. Soon after, the pilot grabs his chest and screams about his chest splitting apart. Then Brian has a flashback and remembers, "When a man in front of Paisley's store had suffered a heart attack. He had gone down and screamed about his chest." (page 11) Brian realizes the pilot has had a heart attack Then the pilot dies.
The plane crashed in an L-shaped lake and Brian escaped with his life. All he had was his hatchet and the clothes on his back. He would have to survive in the setting of the Canadian north woods in the present day.
The first thing Brian had to struggle against was hunger. Gary Paulsen uses personification (on page 48) to describe Brian's hunger. "Now, with the thought of the burger, the emptiness [in his stomach] roared at him." Brian realizes he has to stay positive, and he has another flashback (on page 51) to an English teacher who always told his kids "You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the best thing you have." So, Brian stayed positive and focused on this first theme of the book.
Brian then looked for a good shelter. He found a small shelter by a stone ridge and made it his new home. But soon after, a porcupine that entered his shelter during the night injured him. He realized his shelter would not be safe unless he made a fire. So the next morning, he went out to get a lot of firewood. He set up the fireplace in the shelter so animals didn't try to get in any more. He used the hatchet to make sparks. After many tries, he finally got the fire going. The fire would keep him busy getting firewood.
He then realized that with the fire, he could signal planes to land and find him. So he set up wood for a tall signal fire on top of the shelter and made sure there was a stick that he could take out of the fire in his shelter and run to the signal fire to light it. Here (on page 102), Brian repeated over and over again a second theme for his survival: "He had to keep on hoping. He had to keep on hoping."
Now, Brian just had many things to do. He found raspberries, uncovered turtle eggs, and created a bow and arrow. He hunted for birds and fish. He worked hard every day chopping wood and stacking it near his shelter.
In the climax of the book, Brian heard a plane! Brian was away from the shelter so he had to run really fast, "his legs liquid springs"(page 116) is a metaphor that describes his legs. Brian rushed inside his shelter and grabbed a stick that was on fire and ran it up to the ledge. He lit the fire, but he was too late. The plane had already passed. Brian feels as if there is an end to his hope. And the author describes Brian's feelings with imagery (on page 121): "He went down to his knees and felt the tears start, cutting through the smoke and ash on his face, silently falling onto the stone." Brian is so empty after the plane passed by that he let the fire go out. The fire was his symbol of warmth, food, safety, life, work, and hope. When he lets the fire go out, it means he wants to die. Brian tries to kill himself with his hatchet.
Brian tries to cut himself with his hatchet, but it doesn't work. After that experience, he was born again as a new Brian. Forty-two days later, he sees a wolf and he realizes "He knew the wolf now, as the wolf knew him, and he nodded to it, nodded and smiled."(page 121). "He was not the same now." He was a part of nature like the wolf. I won't tell you anymore because it will ruin the surprise for you.
The book is called "Hatchet" because it was the hatchet that saved Brian's life. The hatchet was used to start a fire, to cut wood for the fire, to make a spear to catch fish, and bow and arrows to catch birds and rabbits, and to give him the ability to get inside the plane. "The hatchet was, had been him [Brian]."(page 174) The hatchet was a symbol of Brian.
I think this book was very well written. The author used such detail to describe items of importance. The plot was amazing! I look forward to reading the next story about Brian called "Brian's Winter," which tells how Brian would make it through the winter if he hadn't been saved.
Rating:
Summary: Sick and Sad
Review: In my class we read this book and some of the parts are very sad and some of them were very nasty and gross. As Brian Robeson is going through this terrible accident you feel as though you are growing with him. I know as I read along in this book I felt sorry for everyone who loved and or cared about Brian. After I finished my reading for that night I would go to sleep hoping and praying that Brian would survive. If you enjoyed this book you should definitely read the other books in the "set" or read some of the many great books by Gary Paulsen.
Rating:
Summary: PLease, no
Review: I had to read this for school. i read a lot of books and this is probably the worst thing i ever read. it could have been three pages long if there werent so many details. anyway, what are the chances of breaking ribs after beng attacked by a moose and then sleeping through a tornado?
Rating:
Summary: An Amazing Adventure
Review: Hatchet was written by Gary Paulsen. It is copyrighted in 1987. Hatchet is about a thirteen-year-old boy named Brian Robeson. He was on a single engine airplane on his way to visit his father in Canada. On his way, the pilot has a heart attack. The plane crashes and the rest of the book tells how he survives the Canadian Wilderness. I recommend this book for ages 11-15. Hatchet is very interesting because during his duration in the Canadian Wilderness, it shows how he deals with his parents divorce
Rating:
Summary: LOST
Review: The book Hachet was very interesting.It had a lot of animals and it was about how to survive. And how to set up camp from scratch.Hatchet was a really good book.
Rating:
Summary: the hatchet review
Review: I give this book a 4 star rating. It has action and it has suspense. A boy stranded in the wild is a good topic to write about. The book that went with it, or the sequel as some call it is Brians Winter. It is alot like the Hatchet, but during winter time. I think anybody who reads this book will be satisfied. If anybody is into books that have people stranded, and have to fend for themselves, then this is a book for them.
|
