Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Book Summary and Review) - Minute Book Report

This is a quick book summary and analysis of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. This channel discusses and reviews books, novels, and short stories through drawing...poorly. New Minute Book Reports are posted every week.

This is a story about a boy named Brian who is flying from New York to Canada to spend time with his father. However, during the flight, the pilot of the small aircraft dies of a heart attack and Brian is forced to land the plane.

Fortunately, Brian survives the plane crash, but suffers several injuries. He builds a shelter and gathers supplies, but really doesn't know what he is doing.

After his wounds heal, Brian begins to learn and adapt to his new environment. He starts to recognize what's edible and even starts a fire.

Just when things begin to look good for Brian, bad luck strikes and he is attacked by a moose and a tornado wipes out his camp.

In the aftermath of the tornado, however, the tail of his plane surfaces in the nearby lake. He swims to the plane and retrieves a survival pack. Among the supplies is an emergency transmitter.

In the end, Brian is rescued and discovers a newfound respect for nature.

Readers understand early on that Brian is very vulnerable in the wild. He is consistently slowed by his injuries and inability to do much for himself. A lot of what he thinks he knows about survival often comes from popular culture, like TV shows and movies.

However, Brian begins to learn about his environment and matures his survival instinct. He first recognizes his disadvantage in nature when he begins collecting food and wood. He understands that he must gather enough food and wood not just for the present, but also for the future in case he ever were to get hurt or injured. And it's from this foresight and progressive thinking that Brian demonstrates his understanding of survival.

One of the great realizations that Brian has in the wild is that everything in nature is constantly trying to eat. This realization pushes Brian to create innovative solutions to gather food, whether it be weapons for hunting or a fish farm.

And as Brian begins to reinvent technology to harvest food around him, readers also recognize that his tastes change. At first, Brian is content with eating berries. Later, however, he craves fish, bird, and bigger game.

The conclusion of the story includes two rescues for Brian. The first is his physical rescue from the wilderness, but the second rescue is from the bitterness and disdain towards his mother. After Brian discovers that his mother's affair led to his parents' divorce, he strongly holds it against her. However, through surviving life-threatening situations, Brian puts his family drama in perspective. He never forgets his mother's actions, but at least he can let go.

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[boostergold]

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[supersaiyanbluegoku]

Thank you so much. This guy deserves more love he just saved countless people.

[KayJiggyy]

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(Spoiler Alert)
Honestly, the one part of this book that I never forgot was the part when Brian discovered that he has been eating fish that has probably eaten parts of the pilot. I imagined the picture of the pilot’s skull which would have haunted me for a few days.

But it didn’t scare me for long because I suddenly remembered when the skunk sprayed on Brian’s face and stole his turtle eggs.

[KoiladaScrewYTHandles]

I had to read this book many, many years ago in primary school. It's still one of my favourite books to this day, and one of two books out of tens that I was made to read in primary and high school that I actually liked and still own copies of.

[jduke]

I remember reading this for a summer project my school made us do every summer. One of the best books I ever read. One of the few books I was able to read and have a vision of what was going on. I’d love to make a movie about this book or hopefully see someone make a movie about it

[pencilRC]

I came here to share my thoughts about the book.

I had to read 2 books for summer reading. I read none over the summer so I just finished the second book, hatchet. The first book was treasure island, the way people spoke made it really hard and I forgot books normally aren’t that way... I forgot books.. were fun to read. I actually started to like hatchet, the story was amazing. It was happy, sad, put me on the edge of my seat. I didn’t skim through it like most books, I actually read and thought about it.
I hope we get a movie someday, it would be amazing to see that in actual pictures instead of my wild imagination.
This book, is just.. wow. I never read anything as thrilling as hatchet... thanks for coming to my ted talk :)

[vvanimatez]

Thank you so much I didn't have time to read the book.Thank you for doing this.

[footy.official]

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[acehavoc]

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[reese_dowell]

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[poobashaniekurpaharam]

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[johnlheureux]

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[rileyjackson]

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[kimberlylucas]

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[avgomasterz]

Oh damn. I read Brian's Winter and not that much of Hatchet. Gary Paulsen added to it because he saw how much potential he had instead of ending or so fast. I was like tf you talking about with the emergency transmitter but then I realized it was Hatchet.

[SpaceBabyFlaz]

got 3 days, lol this helps! This like the Ultimate cheat sheet! also i gotta do timeline:) should i just put stuff from this?

[bhaktapeter]

the part of the book where he goes underwater into the submerged airplane with a month old rotting corpse right there in the plane too is quite a psychological thriller for a young child. They had us read this when we were in 8th or 9th grade if i can remember correcty, which means i was about 13 years old.

[landryeaton]

Thx Bro, u rrly helped me see the hole book, I read it but didn't understand it, now I can