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In the book Hatchet our main character is Brian and he was in a car going to the airport.In the car going there his mom gives him a hatchet because the plane that he is going on is going to the airport where his dad is going to pick him up.When he gets to the plane he see’s that it is a small bush plane and the driver tells him to get on.They are in the plane for a long time and no one talks till the driver lets him fly the plane for a little bit then the pilot has a heart attack and dies.He is frozen in fear for a long time then he tries to contact the airport then the connection fails.The plane then runs out of fuel and crashes in a lake despite his efforts to stop it.When the plane hit the lake he was stuck in the plane for a little bit because his seat belt was stuck then he swam up and rested at the shore.after a few days he eats berries and builds a shelter.He them gets hurt from the berries because they were poisonous.he finds new berries that are not poisonous and he finds a bear by them and the bear does not attack him then he walks away from the bear.Then a porcupine …show more content…

I think that the book was very well written because it really showed the danger that he was in.It was specific about everything.It was very in depth about the personality of Brian.It described the things very well and also it was easy to follow the story.It really showed the danger that he was in.Like at the start of the book when he was in the air plane and the pilot had a heart attack it was realistic because it said he was frozen with fear.In a normal situation people would be frozen with

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