Hatchet Survival Quotes

Have you ever wonder if you could survive in the wilderness? Do you think that you would survive? Don't doubt yourself you never know if you can survive. In the book Hatchet, theirs a 12 year old boy named Brian, he was going to visit his father's house, but the plane crashed when the pilot had a heart attack. One of Brian's strategies was to use his memories. Some of his memories were good, but some of them were bad. Such as his parents divorce.

Throughout Brian’s time in the wilderness, Brian have a lot of memories that helped him throughout his worst moment of survival. But there's one memory that I think that helped him the most was in chapter 14,” His mother had left some salmon out by mistake one time when they went on an overnight trip to Cape Hesper to visit relatives and when they got back the smell filled the whole house. There was no way to store fish.” I believe that this memory affected Brian because, it let him know that he can't store fish and he has to find a new way to store his fish. And if Brian does find a way to store his food then he won't have to hunt every day. And storing his food will also help him of he gets hurt he doesn't have to hunt in pain he can just go to where he's storing hes food and get some food. …show more content…
Secrets. No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew—the Secret. Divorce. The Secret.” This memory affected Brian because, when he thinks of the divorce and his mother and the secret. And this memory also hurt Brian because he stores all of his anger and he doesnt let it out, so he tried to kill himself. So not all of Brian's memories but in the Book Hatchet, he always try to get the bad memories out of his